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Originally posted by cntryZTA5
I agree with AOII_LB93. I've also chaperoned a high school dance recently. The kids look like they're about to have sex on the dance floor. My administrators asked me to walk around with a flashlight so I could see what was going on in the middle of the dance floor.
I don't think the dances should be cancelled, but I do think the students could have a good time without being right on top of each other.
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Yeah, but 30 years ago they were doing the same thing with the flashlights for kids who slow-danced without enough space between them. We all just turn into our parents . . .
My personal take is that you can do what you want to try to stop it, but it's not going to stop. Dancing has just gotten racier with every decade and that's not a trend that's going to reverse with our current culture of sexualization at a younger and younger age. I went to a school where there were also lots of rules enforced on dances after a freshman dance (during my senior year) where dancing was a little too scandalous for the chaperones to handle. Despite all the administration's efforts to the contrary, the dancing hasn't gotten any more innocent. And I don't know -- I don't think that it's that bad. Even if the dancing is really racy, tacky or sexual -- it's still just dancing. Given the rate of teenage sex/growing rate of oral sex and things like this, I think that if we're trying to enforce morality there are much bigger problems that need to be worked on.