[AOII_LB93]

You know, a few years ago I would have said "Let the kids do what they want as long as they are not getting naked," but that was before I chaperoned Sadie Hawkins and Homecoming the last two years where I work. It's a school sponsored function, you shouldn't look like you are f-ing on the dance floor. I graduated when "dirty dancing" and freaking just started, but we certainly did not do what I've seen my students doing. It makes bootie videos on MTV look tame sometimes to be quite honest (and I'm no saint, nor am I 800 years old).

Unless you have recently chaperoned a high school dance and actually seen what people my younger sister's age (15) and younger for that matter are doing, it's hard to comment on this. Canceling all school dances is extreme, and at the school I teach at we don't expect waltzing or polkas as someone pointed out earlier, but we do expect the students to not look like they are doing the nasty on the floor. They even sign dance contracts, which among other things require them to dress appropriately(according to school code--as it is a school function), and not freak dance, or face warnings and if warnings happen more than once you are kicked out of the dance, end of story.

It's not like freaking doesn't go on because it does, but it has been limited of late and what I have seen has still been really risque. I highly DOUBT a lot of these kids would dance like that in front of their church parish, parents or grandparents, so why should I have to see it?

Would you want your younger sister simulating sex on the dance floor at a school dance? How about your daughter or son? I haven't forgotten what it's like to be young, I'm 28, and yes I freaked at the last formal I went to (ok it was a few years ago, but still), but I'm an adult, there were no "adult chaperones" who had to sit there watching. You can bet your a$$ that I wouldn't dance that way in front of my dad though.