"No pinching rule" on St. Patrick's Day

My daughter told me something pretty interesting today. Her school is banning the practice of pinching anyone who doesn't wear green on St. Patrick's Day. Apparently, any child who breaks the no-pinching rule will automatically receive a Level 3 reminder note sent home (which is the same as sending a third reminder of a child's bad behavior).

And here I was, freaking out over trying to find her something GREEN to wear for tomorrow. I was ready to cover her with it! I can tell you horror stories of how kids have ambushed me when they thought I wasn't wearing green (when I actually WAS, of course). Or when something "wasn't green enough" and family members would start pinching me like crazy. (Yeah, I'm really wuvved. LOL)

I was kind of relieved because of those very same bad experiences I had on St. Patrick's Day in elementary school. (The teachers took their sweet time in getting the kids to stop pinching me and one episode even had me on the floor in tears because they pinched so hard.) So you could imagine my relief.

But on the other hand, I think it's kind of unusual. There used to be some fun in the whole pinching thing. I wonder if other schools have taken the same type of action.

Unfortunately, some kids do take the whole pinching thing too far. Thus, schools such as my daughter's are obviously forced to take action in preventing such problems. I never knew about the importance of orange until I did some research on St. Patrick's Day traditions and history.

Thanks for all the comments on this. It has been interesting to read. And here I was, thinking everybody knew about the pinching.