High school requires students to sign contracts to attend dances

[Bateluer]

http://www.kmbc.com/r/25039601/detail.html

Honestly, sounds good to me. Trust isn't something you are just given, its earned. You want to attend the dance, sign the contract and dance appropriately for the setting.

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. -- Truman High School students who want to attend school dances this year must sign a dance contract.

Principal Kristel Barr said the contract is to help curb inappropriate dancing. The contract is posted on the school's website and it must be signed by students and parents.

View Dance Contract

"I have had kids say, 'Hey, this is just how we dance.' I counter that with, 'I don't consider those things being dancing as much as necessarily movement that is not school appropriate.' So I say that you can choose -- my kids are smart kids, they're intelligent -- if you choose to you can think of other ways in which to dance. They do admit, for the most part, that yeah, they are smart enough to think of other ways, they would just rather maybe not," Barr said.

KMBC's Peggy Breit reported that the dance rules contract is very explicit. Freaking, grinding and moshing are out. The contract states that there will be no warnings. Students who violate the contract will be thrown out and their parents called.

"I printed it off as soon as I heard that it was online and signed it, and my mom signed and I turned everything in. I read it and think it's cool. I think it's awesome," senior Serena Cappuzzo said. "I think a lot of people don't know where the line is. It's very specific and it's very clear what is appropriate and what isn't."

"I think it's ridiculous, personally. I mean, they should be able to trust us enough to not make fools of ourselves at a school dance with chaperones," sophomore Danielle Roach said.

Administrators said they asked the student council for input on the contract.

 

[tinker2141]

Kids who do this ignorant shit are the ones trying to ruin it for everyone else.

 

[Zebo]

Back when I went to school you'd get a beat down for playing grab ass no contract needed. Once I got explicit in hallway in front of locker with this girl and my wrestling coach Mr Muir grabbed me by the ear and drug me too office with it. I bet if I were not holding his arm which was latched around my lobe he would have ripped it off carrying me by it.

 

[dainthomas]

Haha, look at the old people getting irate!

 

[her209]

Haha, look at the old people getting irate!

Seriously. Teachers/parents not approving of the way their kids dancing isn't anything new.

 

[Bateluer]

Seriously. Teachers/parents not approving of the way their kids dancing isn't anything new.

I don't really consider myself old, nor am I a parent or a teacher. But its not appropriate for high school girls to pretty much have sex on a dance floor. Nothing wrong with wanting to maintain an orderly, safe environment. These are children, remember, high school students. If they want to dance like that, they can do it at any club they wish.

 

[TheVrolok]

Seriously. Teachers/parents not approving of the way their kids dancing isn't anything new.

True, but the "fairy new" style of grinding/other sexual explicit dancing is a far crash from the mashed potato, the twist, etc. It's a toughie, I can't say I'm thrilled about kids doing it at a high school dance, but then, I did, and still do out at the clubs from time to time so who knows.

 

[Throckmorton]

Does it forbid the "Lindy Hop"?

 

[Double Trouble]

How dumb. What kind of nonsense is that? Parents and teachers have been objecting to what the kids do on the dance floor since there have been dances. This contract stuff is nonsense. Heck, I'd much rather have my kids dancing some "unallowed" way on the dance floor than be doing something else outside of the dance that could be much worse.

Overblown nonsense if you ask me.

 

[her209]

I don't really consider myself old, nor am I a parent or a teacher. But its not appropriate for high school girls to pretty much have sex on a dance floor. Nothing wrong with wanting to maintain an orderly, safe environment. These are children, remember, high school students. If they want to dance like that, they can do it at any club they wish.

That's what the parents and teachers have been saying for generations!!! Any kind of body to body contact (other than the hands) will be construed as sexual.

 

[dawp]

Who gets to decide what is "inappropriate"?

 

[DrPizza]

I've been chaperoning dances for a decade. I have yet to see kids grinding on the dance floor while dancing.

 

[Double Trouble]

I've been chaperoning dances for a decade. I have yet to see kids grinding on the dance floor while dancing.

You must be in a very sheltered area, because some of the things I've seen on the dancefloor at high school dances are more suggestive than stuff in a porno.

 

[soccerballtux]

http://www.kmbc.com/r/25039601/detail.html

Honestly, sounds good to me. Trust isn't something you are just given, its earned. You want to attend the dance, sign the contract and dance appropriately for the setting.

The "trust is earned" moniker was made up by parents who thought they knew what they were doing, but really have no idea.

When you don't give anyone responsibility their minds never have the chance to grow and start thinking these things through so that they can make better decisions next time.

All I'm saying is, if I had had to earn my trust, I would still be working at McDonalds. I had to get thrown in before I was able to grow. Now I've got an EE degree from one of the top 5 schools around and am one of the few graduates to have found a job.

So please, think a little more before you enforce this on your children. Otherwise, they're never going to grow up. Promise you that.

Second, where are the parents in this? These students are a product of the parenting. So why does the school care what the kids do? Nor is it their place to enforce it.

 

[MotF Bane]

How dumb. What kind of nonsense is that? Parents and teachers have been objecting to what the kids do on the dance floor since there have been dances. This contract stuff is nonsense. Heck, I'd much rather have my kids dancing some "unallowed" way on the dance floor than be doing something else outside of the dance that could be much worse.

Overblown nonsense if you ask me.

This.

 

[Dekasa]

Why don't they just throw kids out that dance "inappropriately?" Skip the whole contract BS and say, "These are the rules. Deal with it."

You can even do it like my school did prom, if you leave/get kicked out, call the parents before the kids leave so they can't use it as a sneak-out.

 

[Kirby]

house party!

 

[Moonbeam]

Maybe instead of a contract the kids should have to pass a medical test that they don't have venereal disease and then instead of a dance they just have mass sex. Everybody takes a turn fucking everybody else.

Oh never mind. That won't work. Somebody will bellyache that this or that is an inappropriate way to have sex.

 

[iGas]

Power tripping educators are too busy being cops instead of educating. I don't like seeing kids grinding privates and inappropriate acts in public, but wasting time on a contract is a waste of resource. It would have been more effective at the beginning of the school year for the teachers to ask the parents what are their top 10 concerns for their children and use that as a guideline to focus their attention on.

<--- Have 2 sisters that are teachers and both are control freaks.