[CheneyChick]

It's good to see that this CA principal is taking a stand.

[Lysander]

Dancing is too much like dancing. End school dances.

[truthkeeper]

I read the article. The comments by the kids were very telling. "What's the problem? There are four layers of clothes between us."

[grobdriver]

Attention, Sandra Pearson!
We will pay to move you to Texas!
There are many great schools here that can be recovered by people like you, and we need you!
California is a lost cause.

[twigs]

My daughter goes to a Christian School and they don't allow dancing at all, although most families do not have a problem with it. Instead of a Junior/Senior Prom, they have a Jr/Sr banquet. For years, my dau thought this was just stupid. So last year when she was a Jr she went to a local public school's prom and to her banquet. She was stunned to find that her banquet was far and away more fun. Both cost exactly the same. The fee for the prom went to renting the hall and a large police presence and a few pretzels and soda. Hers included a full dinner and an MC who conducted an evening of entertainment that included solving some kind of a mystery. This year she can't want to go to her banquet and could care less whether or not she goes to a prom.

[aardvark1]

If they can't freak, they can't have fun, advocates say.

I've obviously never had fun.

[jejones]

From a web page on the waltz:

The waltz was also criticized on moral grounds by those opposed to its closer hold and rapid turning movements. Religious leaders almost unanimously regarded it as vulgar and sinful. Continental court circles held out obstinately against the waltz.

They quote a Times editorial written after a dance that included the waltz:

"We remarked with pain that the indecent foreign dance called the Waltz was introduced (we believe for the first time) at the English court on Friday last ... it is quite sufficient to cast one's eyes on the voluptuous intertwining of the limbs and close compressure on the bodies in their dance, to see that it is indeed far removed from the modest reserve which has hitherto been considered distinctive of English females. So long as this obscene display was confined to prostitutes and adulteresses, we did not think it deserving of notice; but now that it is attempted to be forced on the respectable classes of society by the civil examples of their superiors, we feel it a duty to warn every parent against exposing his daughter to so fatal a contagion."

and an 1866 article in the English magazine Belgravia:

"We who go forth of nights and see without the slightest discomposure our sister and our wife seized on by a strange man and subjected to violent embraces and canterings round a small-sized apartment - the only apparent excuse for such treatment being that is done to the sound of music - can scarcely realize the horror which greeted the introduction of this wicked dance."

These days I hesitate to use French, but, plus ca change...

[showme_the_Glory]

What's the big deal? It's the same thing as the "Twist" but while touching.../sarcasm off

[TightSqueeze]

They drafted seven rules, including no chewing gum!

[FreeTally]

Yes, the comments are quite telling

``I don't think it's necessary,'' chimed in her friend Jessie Herzog, also a 15-year-old sophomore. ``It's trying to change it into a middle school dance.''

. I can't even begin to address this one.

[FreeTally]

But this one is the most telling:

``They can't put a ban on it,'' said sophomore Blake Wilson. ``If they kick people out, there will be two people left.''

So essentially, this mature mental genious is saying, "How dare we be asked to exhibit some self-control. How could one possibly dance without being sexual with each other".

I pray for our future.

[jeremiah]

It is time to segregate the sexes for schooling purposes. The close contact between the two groups is counterproductive to the learning of essential lessons, and distractive to concentration. The language and lack of respect for each other, in social interaction is appalling. Schools should be for learning, social clubs outside of school, can be for mixing. As a matter of fact, I would rid the schools of competitive sports, make them private affairs also. Waste of money, and something better taken care of in the private sector. As long as we are robbing taxpayers to educate our children, we should concentrate on that only.

In that way, respect will return to the relationship between the sexes. Children will learn without the pressure and distraction that sex brings, and the publics money will be more effeciently used. Familiarity breeds contempt.

[bonfire]

We came early to pick up my son at his 8th grade dance and saw some of the kids doing this. (this was 4 yrs. ago) I grabbed some teachers and we broke them up. Soon as the teachers walked away, they were back at it. 8TH GRADE!!

[cyborg]

I don't remember the movie but all I remember is the line by the nun... make some room for the holy ghost!

[Billthedrill]

I always said the same about that feller Elvis whatsisname. You gyrate around like that, you're gonna end up just like him - old, fat, rich, women hanging all over you...

Wait a minute...

[WKB]

That's why Baptist won't make love standing up, God might think they are dancing!!

[Paradox]

"Girls Are Stoopid" dance, thats what I call freaking.

Was it George Bernard Shaw who said that "Dancing is the vertical expression of horizontal desires."

[Stone Mountain]

Why don't Baptists have sex standing up?




Too much like dancing...

[CounterCounterCulture]

The culture was much better/saner when the worst thing a student did was chew gum.

[tet68]

When I was in High school the "Twist" was popular.
Yes, I'm older than disco.
Back then Rock and Roll was called,

The vertical fulfillment of a horizontal desire.