Dr. Richard Wilson, a ninth grade administrator, is one of these staff members. Everybody needs to be treated fairly. We need to have one set of guidelines. The absence of any specific rule regarding PDA leaves room for personal interpretation on the part of staff members. There does, however, seem to be a general staff consensus on which public acts are inappropriate.
Most teachers point to the difference between two kisses.
A quick peck is considered acceptable by most teachers' standards, but lock lips for too long, and the pair is breaching the thin line of propriety. Looking the other way is English teacher Peter Kahl's strategy. Although Kahl says that he has not observed much PDA at Blair, he concedes that it would take a whole lot of loving to prompt his interruption. According to Kahl, what unites all students, showy or shy, is sexuality. The impetus for human life itself, sex may be the saucy undercurrent of many actions, but this does not mean that every desire should go uncontrolled.