GRANGER has a variety of activities that happen around the halls, which many Lancers have opinions about, but there’s nothing they can do about it.

In high school, everybody tries to mind their business. Everyone has their own opinions about relationships and the PDA that may come with them. People can be over-the-top madly in love in the hallways or even outside the school. Many Lancers can’t see their significant others outside of school.

Teachers and administrators are by far the people who see the most significant amount of PDA. Whether it’s intense or the different levels of PDA each day, they see it all. They get to witness all the new or old relationships, or even the ones who’ve gotten back together.

Mr. Keyes, a history teacher here at Granger, sees PDA the most in the area before entering Upper H hall in the corner. “Holman and I, we both say ‘gross’ when we see it,” Keyes said. He said his class doesn’t have a seating chart, so he doesn’t mind if couples sit next to each other. “Sometimes they do take it too far. There was this one time I had to send someone to the office,” he added. He has seen other intense PDA, but it probably isn’t appropriate to share here.

Many students don’t like seeing PDA in the hallways. “It’s weird, you know, they’re in public, and it isn’t respectful. I mostly see them at school in the hallways. I try to ignore it,” Sebastian Soto Ochoa (10) said. He thinks it’s disturbing and there’s a time and place for that kind of stuff, and school isn’t it.

“I hateeee it,” Samantha Cruz (11) said. It’s the kind of hate she wishes she could push aside. She sees it the most on her way to lunch. “One time I saw this couple, and he was fully grabbing on her cheeks if you know what I mean,” Cruz said. “When I was in a relationship, I would always want to be affectionate in public, but I just couldn’t, depending on the situation,” she added.

Abel Diaz (11) has been in relationships, but he thinks there’s a time when certain things, like a full-on makeout in public, aren’t acceptable. “For me, seeing it is one thing, but when it comes to doing it, that’s another. All I gotta say is I’m going to do my own thing,”  Diaz said. There are levels to this, and you shouldn’t reach them, especially at school. “Personally, I would never if I knew there were people around, but seeing a peck is not as bad as pushing the limits in showing affection,” he said.