Why spend good money and time to go to a dance organized by mindless, domineering, timeserving government drones? Instead, you and your friends could go to the type of place, like a good restaurant or movie theatre, or even a private dance hall, that will cater to you and that is nice enough to actually attract people who have choices.
Seems like a simple choice to me. Just because some school board can maintain the Potemkin Village appearance of a fun time does not mean that children should want to be part of that deception.
Your soap box doesn’t relate to what is happening in this article. I see a lack of training on the part of boys and girls by parents as to how to treat each other with respect and how they should EXPECT to be treated. Everything is somewhat “throw away”, including tradition with these youth, not all. Also, if a girl is too much work..having to make the effort to call, arrange a date ahead of time, meet the parents, get to know her....in other words take things slow and seriously, they lose interest. Why should they make an effort when it seems that so many girls are easy pick ups for one night, several nights or off and on nights. But that is okay because I believe someone is out there that will deserve my girls and they are going to be very lucky. Noone will ever deserve my baby boy! Ha Ha.