Posted on 10/26/2009 11:47:54 AM PDT by onehitfrag
Their solution: Fight explicit teen dancing with an equal dose of explicitness. Downey and Aliso Niguel are among the first schools to draft "dance contracts," binding agreements that parents and students must sign before a teenager can step onto the dance floor.
Administrators say the graphic descriptions in the contracts leave little room for arguments over interpretation and put everyone on notice about appropriate behavior.
The Downey contract, for example, specifies "no touching breasts, buttocks or genitals. No straddling each others' legs. Both feet on the floor." Students get two warnings about sexually suggestive behavior before being booted without a refund and barred from other dances.
In Ventura Unified, the high school contract reads: "When dancing back to front, all dancers must remain upright -- no sexual bending is allowed i.e. no hands on knees and no hands on the dance floor with your buttocks touching your dance partner."
And then there's the issue of exposure.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
“Sending your child to a public school is a form of child abuse.”
When I was in HS the worst thing you’d do is grab your dance partner’s butt.
Now they routinely simulate sexual intercourse on the dance floor.
All designed, I guess, to drive their adult chaperons crazy.
Diversity makes us stronger.
‘Now they routinely simulate sexual intercourse on the dance floor.”
From what I hear there is not all that much simulation involved.
When I went to Catholic high school in the early sixties we had the “daylight rule” enforced by the very stern Sisters of Mercy....ie: the nuns had to see daylight between the slow dancers...LOL...simpler times for sure!!
But I imagine that girl/girl and boy/boy dancing is just fine.
And better times for sure.
*sigh*
Yes, so we are told by many of you militant home-schoolers.
Would it completely fry your little mind if you were to learn that SOME public schools and... *gasp* ...even whole DISTRICTS are not the putrid depths of hell?
Here's a free clue: Sweeping, arrogant and laughably false statements are NOT a good way to persuade people to your way of thinking.
I feel the need to point out that, strictly speaking, it is not possible to dance with both feet on the floor.
Or walk.
“When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.” — G.K. Chesterton
My nieces are home-schooled and are Jr. Black belts in tae kwon do, and as soon as they can hold a .357 they’ll be out on the range, so “militant” isn’t so far off. At least they’re safe, slugger.
I love the part where it says boys must leave their hats, chains, and canes at home.
Shee, pimpin’ ain’t easy. Especially at these school dances.
Playa haters.
Sure they are.
Anywhere that has kicked God out is simply the "putrid depths of hell".
This isn't said to cause an argument, but to shine light on God's Word.
Does that junior-grade moron have even the slightest clue how stupid he looks?
It’s hard out here for a pimp.
That little punk ain’t a pimp ... although that probably is as high as his aspirations go.
He is a model....catch the brand label on his left sleeve.
If ....... WTH, why even start? Lost cause.
(I started with a ‘profound’ line of reasoning, but gave up.)
So he's wearing that ridiculous costume because somebody paid him to wear it.
OK.
I can actually respect that. Sort of ...
But ... the folks who would actually pay good money (probably lots of it) to buy the thing, and wear it in public ...
Refer to my previous comments.
Leave room for your guardian angel.
I dunno. Looks like Black Irish in a St. Patrick’s Day outfit. Of course, that would disallowed as promoting religion in a government school.
If he takes the label off his left sleeve, he’ll only look like a medium range dork.
Then press charges on me or stfu.
Having had kids in parochial school before, I can tell you first had that church schools have their own problems but they are covered up better.
Same thing with private schools. They have drug and criminal problems, teen ages sex problems, academic problems, yada yada yada and their politics would put any public school system to shame.
My experience involves far more than you can imagine. Administration, teachers, counselors, social workers, LEOs, courts, students, parents, and even my own kids.
Those who paint with the broad brush that you use just show how ignorant they are.
Abolish public school? Ok,...it will still be the same kids, same families, and the same teachers just in a different setting.
Mandate home school? LOL you have to be joking and more than slightly retarded! I’ll bet you can go to your local wal mart and see dozens of families you wouldn’t want home schooling! Heck I wouldn’t want your kids being home schooled!!
Here you have a school setting standards and what happens is some moron has to take pot shots.
Yeah, because posters on FR are your enemies and the NEA is not, LOL.
The term “black Irish” means Irish people who have unusually dark hair, and maybe skin. Not people of African heritage who live in Ireland.
It seems some Spanish armada ships wrecked off the coast of Ireland in the late 1500’s. Hmmm......
Rememeber the brouhaha over the principal who was brought up on contempt charges by the ACLU?
http://pacehighschool.net/index.cfm
Mascot is the Patriot. Hallways are named after Founding Fathers. JNROTC has air rifle and rifle drill teams. The teachers are neighbors that you’ll likely find at church on Sunday, not do-gooders commuting in from some ‘safe’ suburb.
IMO, it is GIGO when you come to school districts and communities.
I always heard that “Irish beauty” refers to very dark hair combined with blue eyes and fair skin.
An enchanting combination when seen on a comely Irish lass!
Disagreeing with another FReeper makes him my enemy? Wow.
LOL....I forgot about that :))!!!
Exactly.
School boards are elected, at least where I'm from. If the school district is a mess, blame the voters.
The Spanish Armada thing has been disproved. You know that the Celts originated in Turkey and were roaming pagans for many years. I think that the lighter Irish are mixed with Vikings, and the darker haired Irish were the original ones. My Irish family had dark hair, but very light skin.
I smell bacon...
Kevin Bacon...
(Footloose II, coming soon to a theater near you...)
If the schools are a mess, look at the families in the school.
But that is not PC to say.
Who is shocked when a school has problems when it is in an area where academic achievement is ridiculed and there is no visible work ethic for maybe three generations, and everyone knows someone with a criminal record?
“militant homeschoolers”
I like the sound of that!
Your nieces sound like my daughters...
If they think we’re “militant” now, just wait until they attempt to restrict homeschooling.
Like darkness simply exists in the absence of light,
so does evil exist in the absence of God.
“... if you were to learn that SOME public schools and... *gasp* ...even whole DISTRICTS are not the putrid depths of hell?”
Would love to believe that to be true. Any evidence?
I'm still amazed at how large these Good Sister's must have believed Guardian Angels were. Seems that no matter how far apart you danced, the Angels needed more room!
He’s probably been told all his life that that’s all he CAN aspire to because “whitey won’t let you succeed”.
What you choose to believe is your own problem. If you want evidence, you can easily find it yourself.
I'll just keep enjoying my terrific local public schools, and my daughter's excellent public school teacher.
The gross evidence where I live is compelling, government schools fail. What district do you live in?
I like the sound of that!
Yeah, and my daughter can't learn martial arts or how to shoot well, because she goes to a public school!
Oh, wait... never mind.
(P.S. by "militant homeschoolers", I meant those who sneer at non-homeschoolers as lesser beings.)
Well, that's something! At least you're one to recognize that there may be a difference from one district to another.
I'll keep my child's school district to myself on a public forum, if you don't mind.
Run for the school board. Work to fix the system instead of simply abandoning it.
Say, Chris, I hope this doesn’t come off as “sneering” (I’m seriously trying to avoid being confrontational),
but if your kids were going to a public school that had a lot of problems, you’d do something about it like, oh, maybe move to a better district, or even homeschool,
right?
Perhaps the original poster could have said something like “knowingly sending your kid into a social cesspool like this is child abuse”.
LOL, so you livfe in such a special place you want it secret. How about maybe a clue - what state?
Ran for school board, made changes. Pouring water onto sand. Ed schools churn out Marxist mush heads. If you think you live where it is better, ask yourself this - what standard are you using?
I guess your right....one thing I haven’t forgotten is our Mercy nuns in Camden NJ would make any boys who were pushing each other around or acting like they were tough guys who wanted to fight each other put on boxing gloves and have it out in the gym with the whole class looking on...and a male sports coach as a ref!!..honest to God this is true.....my own kids don’t believe me but it’s true.....the Good Sisters wanted girls to act like girls and boys to act like boys.....I hated the nuns then but now realize what a wonderful, dedicated group of women they really were!
But....it the school helping to teach her how to be a Proverbs 31 woman when she grows up?
Or, are they teaching her that she needs to learn "safe" sex, and discover what career field she's going to spend the rest of her life doing?
I know quite a number of ladies in their 40's and 50's that are pretty ticked off at the women's movement lie. Yes, they have their careers - but absolutely NOTHING else.
It gives them an audience to influence, keeps their paychecks coming, and furthers their agenda.
Read this one: Why Parents Don’t Trust the Educator-in-Chief and His Comrades by Malkin (Sep2009)
rotten publik edumacashun! :-)
Certainly, but that isn't the issue, at least not how it was presented in the post to which I responded.
Perhaps the original poster could have said something like “knowingly sending your kid into a social cesspool like this is child abuse”.
He could have, but didn't.
It's not the homeschooling I disagree with, but the insufferably arrogant attitude presented by some homeschooling advocates.
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