WOODBURY — Holding hands, a hug goodbye, a last kiss: things you expect to see when you’re watching Titanic — not in the Nonnewaug hallways.

PDA, or a public display of affection, is a tragic sight that no one wants to see during school. Less than an hour after I wake up, the last thing I want to see is people all over each other. 

Sophomore Audrey Doran agrees that witnessing PDA is not a good way to start your morning. 

“I think it’s disgusting,” Doran said. “I think if you want to do all of that here you should find a janitor’s closet, just don’t do it in the middle of the library for all of us to have to look at because when it’s 6 a.m. and we have to see cuddling and tongues down throats its really unpleasant and it’s too much and really it just loses the appetite and fricks with the mental status.”

Period!

People go to bio to learn about lungs, not see your tongues. You can’t escape them, everywhere you look you see couples together with no regard for anyone around them.

Sophomore Jadyn Heron thinks school isn’t the place for PDA.  

“I think it’s disgusting and I don’t like seeing that in the hallways,” Heron said. “I feel there’s a time and a place for it and the school is just not the time or place.”

The way these people say goodbye in the hallways before a Period 3 class, you would think that they’re going on a year-long trip to Japan. But really they’re going to see each other again in 80 minutes. 

Students aren’t the only ones that have to witness this ick-tuation. Science teacher Josh Kornblut thinks that students should act like they are in the real world.     

“Just like adults in the real world, sometimes things are better not out in public,” Kornblut said, “and listen, you can feel how you want to feel, but let’s just move it along and get to class.”

Yes, move it along, there is no need to be late to class because you feel like walking your girlfriend to class. She’s a big girl and she can walk herself two minutes down the hallway.

I understand how couples would want to be together during school. I just think there needs to be boundaries, and I’m not alone. Junior Zach Berardis is in a relationship but still believes that PDA is not meant for school. 

“At school you should be able to give each other space but still be in a relationship but not be all over each other,” Berardis said. “There’s a time and place to be together, and school isn’t the place for it.”  

Most students at Nonnewaug have the same mindset: This is not the place for PDA. 

“So I would say just, like, not in school, babes,” Doran said. “Not in school.”

This is the opinion of Julia Gwiazdoski, a sophomore reporter for the Chief Advocate.