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A 12-year-old Massachusetts student has been suspended for hugging a gym teacher. The student’s foster mother is asking questions after he was suspended for 10 days and given a record of the physical assault of a teacher.

“I was told he had put his hands on a teacher,” Julie Orozco told NBC Boston 10. “I was shocked and asked for details on what happened, and then I was told that he hugged his gym teacher.”

“At the end of the day, I just hugged her, nothing really happened,” the 7th grader at Forest Grove Middle School in Worcester, Massachusetts told the news station. According to Orozco, the unnamed student admits he was playing around with friends in gym class when the teacher told him to sit out.

“And then I went over just like, and I gave her a hug and said, ‘Please, I don’t want to sit out’ because I like the game,” he said.

After sitting out for five minutes the teacher allowed him to play. Orozco said the next period the students were called to the principal’s office.

“I don’t expect the teacher to have to be OK with being touched or being hugged, but I do expect as an educator that she educate what the boundaries are in her classroom,” Orozco said.

Orozco made several phone calls, emails and hearing she got his school-record reduced to “disruption of school” and his suspension reduced to four days. She added there’s nothing in the school handbook about hugs.

“If you can admit to me that you didn’t have a mechanism or a process, or any way of informing students what your expectations were, but then in the same breath you say to me, ‘He’s 12, he should know hugs are not OK,’ it’s confounding.”

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