[Albion Wilde]

If people want events like this, families or community groups should organize them privately. I’ve known church groups to hold balls, and community organizations such as the Philippine-American Club. This creates a whole different set of standards for the youth, and keeps the ACLU and grandstanding dingdongs firmly out.

Bears repeating!

[Tax-chick]

Thank you. Given the regular bad outcomes at school social events, it’s rather surprising that schools are still holding dances at all. Proms aren’t even a big community interface, as sports events are ... more a nuisance at worst, a minor amusement (a crowd of prom-dressed teens at PetsMart?) at best.

[little jeremiah]

And they can mandate no “freak dancing”, dress codes, etc if they want to.