A kerfuffle over a school dance in Ona, WV.
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ONA
- Members of the Cabell County Board of Education and some parents
disagree about what constitutes provocative dancing, which prompted the
ejection of four or five couples from the Cabell Midland High School
prom on May 1.
Cabell County School Superintendent Bill Smith said the couples were repeatedly told to stop but continued.
Smith said some parents complained last year about lewd dancing at the
prom. In response, Principal David Tackett developed a dance contract
with the help of students, parents, teachers, counselors and
administrators.
It outlined acceptable dancing and specifically prohibited "grinding"
and "dirty dancing." In order to go to the prom, participants had to
sign the contract.
"We're not talking about using a ruler and measuring the distance
between the dance partners, like they used to," Smith said. "What we're
talking about is truly engaging in a sex act with their clothes on."
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I know that our school dances were chaperoned, and I seem to remember a
few instances where a couple was warned about having a too embiggening
dance floor experience I remember Father Schaeffer at St. Joe's
Texas CYO dances. He would
come by and see to it that there was a hand width between bodies.
We
thought nothing of it. I know times have changed, but you'd think
parents today would welcome this supervision, intended to maintain the
same
virtues they teach at home. Did I say this was West Virginia? |
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At a board meeting last week, some parents complained that kids were
told to stop "grinding." They argued that it is the only way kids know
how to dance these days.
One parent said she would not have spent money for her child to go to the prom if she had known of the dance restrictions.(!)
Parents also said that they wanted to receive a copy of the dance contract sooner and have more input on the prom activities. [Full]
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That's it, no West Virgina marriage jokes. I've milked this cow.
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