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MASCOUTAH, IL— A 13-year-old junior high school student was given two days of detention after school officials spotted her hugging friends after school last Friday. Megan Coulter, an eighth-grade student at Mascoutah Middle School, was hugging her friends goodbye after school Friday when vice principal, Randy Blakely, saw her and told her she would receive two after-school detentions - Should a student be punished for 'hugging a friend' ?