Schools have students who kiss, hug, or hold hands in the hallways and have people who are in relationships. Some are more serious than others, but all are attending Derby High School.

Some teachers and students have taken it upon themselves to talk to students who are in relationships about their “inappropriate behavior” in the hallways. Sometimes getting very close to them. Some teachers simple asking them to stop or move to a different area.

Some students will yell “PDA!” and interrupt their conversations and make students feel uncomfortable.

Teachers have told students they will give detention if they continue PDA in the hallways.

“I’ve been pulled into the hall because teachers wanted to talk to me about PDA in the hallways,” Riley Little said.

Most students and teachers, when they were in high school, were in a relationship at some point.

Being with your significant other and in their company can be helpful, sometimes even therapeutic, if you’re having a bad day or just need them to be there for you.

“It’s okay to have PDA as long as you are not making out in the halls,” Stephanie Douglas said.

From juniors to seniors, freshman and sophmores, relationships happen throughout people’s lives. Some relationships come and go more quickly than others.

Some relationships last for years, when others lead to bad breakups. Some are unhealthy and destructive, sometimes leading to self deprivation.

In some relationships people change and become their partners, which can be good in some cases, but not all. While in a relationship you have to find a good medium and figure out where you stop being yourself and becoming them.

Let’s agree that there is a limit to what is appropriate in the hallways and what should be left to the imagination. Kissing passionately and causing a scene probably isn’t on the appropriate side in school.

Being aware that other people are around you and don’t want to see that kind of behavior is important, but students and teachers should always remember if you don’t like it, don’t look.

Giving your significant other a kiss or hugging in the hallways shouldn’t make anyone feel uncomfortable. You should be able to see that someone is happy in their relationship and you should be comfortable that they are.