High School’s Bold Decision to Outlaw School Dances
https://www.yahoo.com/parenting/high-schools-bold-decision-to-outlaw-school-105619714967.htmlHopkinton principal Evan Bishop sent a letter to parents on Wednesday, explaining that dances have been canceled indefinitely because “student behavior, particularly the sexual nature of the dancing, is becoming increasingly inappropriate, despite repeated warnings and redirection from the chaperones.”
The letter continues: “We have had many students come forward to report they do not feel comfortable at the dances because of the nature of the dancing. To us, this is unacceptable and we will not allow this to continue without trying to improve the environment. … we have determined at this point that the correct decision is to discontinue the dances held at the high school unless and until we can restore the environment to one where all students feel safe and comfortable.”
In his letter, Bishop says the school will hold forums with students to discuss solutions that could bring dances back and encourages student suggestions for improving the dances. The school holds three or four dances a year but the ban does not include Junior Prom, which is held at a different venue and, according to the letter, “has not been of significant concern in the past.”
Up until now, Hopkinton has been known for two things: UConn women's hoops star Kara Wolters, and the start of the Boston Marathon. I suggest that Wolters show up at the start line and lead the field in a gigantic twerk!
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I hope so!
May be 5 by now.
I don't think there's a place for twerking at a high school dance, but twerking isn't the main problem. It's the grinding and dry humping that goes on with two partners facing one another that makes other students uncomfortable. Is a high school dance really supposed to be about group sex with clothes on?
I so long for the days when students waited to get to the back seat of the car. 
on each other. I know, since I've been a chaperone. Only once in the last two years, since I don't want to be "that" parent. 
And I think you meant to type "how 'some' people dance now," since plenty of teens get wild and crazy and even sexual without being so vulgar.
People might watch performers bump and grind, but it's not how many adults are going to let teens dance in high school. Or maybe we should just install some poles in the gym and tell 'em to have at it.
You want strippers at the dances!? 
Geez, there are lurking chaperones, and this isn't 1940.
If you don't chill and trust the kids, all is lost. Just let them dance. It's not for you to be the morals police, or complain that they aren't waltzing.
when they are at the dance. And do you really think with lawsuits and liability issues there wouldn't be chaperones? If the kids can't find "x" amount of adults to chaperone the dances, there wouldn't be any dances. Geez, even in my day kids were trying to sneak in alcohol, smoking, and doing drugs in the bathrooms. Well, they still try to do it, and it's still against the rules.
Now, what they do after they leave the dance is entirely their business and not for me to judge. I just hope they are using protection if they're having sex.
when romance was romance and not just sex? And some of it was left to your imagination? LOL
I'm not longing to go back to the days of twin beds, but it'd be nice to see a few romantic kisses before the thrusting.
but what I remember is they never got to the thrusting. Could be frustrating.
in some part.
I miss the romantic tension before the main characters jumped into bed together.
A lady's ankle no longer causes scandal, for which I am thankful, but I can't say I look forward to the day when her vulva at the school dance does not.
and let them bump and grind to their heart's content.
Cause we all have condoms in vending machines at work!
I mean...I can't walk down the hall without seeing two coworkers bumping and grinding and yanking off their shirts. 
That sailed right over your head.
The point is - teach kids about birth control and condoms! Because BOTH of those things are part of real life.
Maybe your co-workers are hiding in the stairwell. I sure as hell have.
since their social lives surely consist of more than two or three school dances a year. I would hope so, anyway.
If only North Korea was offended too, this ruling could get some good, old-time-y DU rationalizations going on... ("it was a stupid dance anyways... who cares?"
I only half-jest.
"High School Makes Quixotic Move to Hold Back the Tide of Teenage Hormones"
because I retired in 2002.
But when I see what passes for on-stage Pop entertainment (hello, Miley, Nicki, Rita, etc.!), ya gotta wonder what is imitated by the 17- and 18-year-olds.
E.g.: Miley:
H.S. dance:
fine for kids to be doing that in school.
Not that long ago we would look at that young woman in the second picture and wonder if she was drunk. Really. Now, we're supposed to think it's ok that girls choose to "dance" like this when they're fourteen. 
We were not allowed to do the Twist about six months later it became allowed but not the Peppermint Twist ...you had to be there .
If it was good enough for me, it's good enough for my grand-children...
So long as you damn kids stay off my lawn...
Best. Flamewar. Ever! Now if we can just find a way to have people breastfeeding their pit bulls while smoking at Olive Garden.
