The surveillance we have everywhere in our lives is kind of a mess. But as kids get more and more, um, out there, there’s a tough line for principals and deans to walk with reporting and watching what the kids do.

Dozens of Gig Harbor High School students demonstrated outside the school Monday to protest an official’s decision to show parents surveillance video of their daughter kissing another girl.

The controversy arose after the school’s dean of students, Keith Nelson, saw the two kissing and holding hands and found video of it on the surveillance system. He showed it to the parents of one of the girls because they had asked to be kept apprised of her behavior.

The parents moved the girl to a different school district after watching it.

Classes continued during the disruption, said Principal Greg Schellenberg. He said he congratulated the students on holding a peaceful demonstration. The protesters wore T-shirts that said “free love” and waved peace signs.

Schellenberg agreed that it was wrong to show the surveillance video to the parents, and said that from now on school officials may only use the surveillance for security monitoring and discipline for actions such as trespassing, vandalism and fighting.

You really have to be careful with students’ rights. If two girls are making out, who’s to say they’re wrong? I’m sure he doesn’t do the same thing for heterosexual make-out sessions. Then again, I wonder what we’re missing in this story. If there are beads being thrown at the girls or body shots beforehand, then we may be slightly overstepping what’s appropriate at school. But making out and maybe a little fingering (i.e. only the pinky or thumb or an Asian penis so as to not provide too much pleasure) is totally okay.

If these girls are just doing it for kicks though, this seriously doesn’t bode well for society. Making out for attention used to be the calling card of the college girl. Now it’s in high school? By the time I have kids, there are going to be girls strapping one on in 7th grade biology while the whole class watches and yells “Ass to ass! Ass to ass!” and throws frog legs on the table. Which seems less than ideal as a parent, I’d think. Oh well, so long as she learns that mitochondria are the fuel source of body somehow, I guess it is what it is.

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