High School turns to signed contracts to avert dirty dancing

[proud2BlibKansan]

All students attending tonight’s Truman High School homecoming dance in Independence will be under contract.

Literally.

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Truman’s contract terms include:

“No sexually explicit or violence-oriented dancing (freaking, grinding, moshing, etc).

“No dancing back-to-front, side-to-back, side-to-front or back-to-back, no grinding front-to-front.

“No touching of breasts, buttocks or genitals.

“No bending over.

“Both feet on the floor.

“No straddling each other’s legs.

“No overt/prolonged public displays of affection (making out).”



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[Recursion]

1. My senior year, the school decided to let us dance at closer than arms length

But only during the slow songs. Then they had to get the band director to define "slow", which I think was 60 bpm. So there was a chaperone with a stop-watch timing the beats to the song, and telling us to get back to arms length if the music was too fast.

[madinmaryland]

3. I wonder what would have happened if the band director had gotten a beat-off.

:hide:

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. OMG

Too funny.

[Recursion]

5. As they say, southern baptists never have sex standing up

because it might lead to dancing

[Angry Dragon]

2. Why even go dancing then??

Better to just go out to the park and climb in the backseat of the 1957 Chevy.............

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. I was wondering where the Taliban went.

[LWolf]

7. Yesterday, at recess,

we (my fellow teachers and the counselor) were discussing our first "social" of the year for our 6th - 8th graders. A K-8 school, not a middle school. We have a student leadership group. They are going to organize the social under the direction of the counselor. He came out to ask us what kinds of activities we'd done in the past, and what we were willing to supervise. He asked, "What about a dance?" There was an instant roar: "NO!" from all 3 of us.

Chaperoning a dance is not on our list of what kind of abuse we're willing to inflict upon ourselves. We leave that to the local Boys & Girls club, who uses our gym after school once or twice a year.

They get the job done without a contract, as I recall. :D

[Catshrink]

9. I refuse to chaperone anymore.

About 3 years ago at Homecoming there were kids who were showing signs of drinking - smelling of booze, staggering, even puking in the bathroom. We told the deputies who were hired to do deputy duty and they refused to do anything. For some reason, there was no school administrator at this dance. There was nothing I could do. Here's my concern: Students at a dance who I strongly suspect of being intoxicated are going to get into their cars and drive. What is my liability in that situation? Would the deputies deny being told about it?

After that I decided it wasn't worth the personal risk. I've talk to the admins about this and they said it would never happen again - that an admin would always be present. I like my admins and have a good working relationship with them - but on this I'm not going to trust them. I'm sure they want to guarantee they'll be there but, as I said, it's not worth it. So I don't do it.

There are enough others who will so the kids get their dance, even though some other teachers won't for reasons similar to mine and the grossness of the grinding.

What I think is kind of odd is that they pay people to take tickets at sporting events but won't pay teachers to chaperone. It seems to me the same sort of thing. It doesn't matter because it wouldn't affect me - I'm not going to do it.

Yeah, on this issue I'm a crabby old fart. If anyone deserves to be drunk at one of those things it's the chaperones but we legally can't. I'll stay home and have my beer.

[proud2BlibKansan]

10. I don't blame you

What a mess.

[LWolf]

11. Exactly. nt

[hobbit709]

8. a contract signed by a minor is not a valid contract.

[Iggo]

12. Nice twist. I like it.

[derby378]

21. That's why the school is making the parents sign it

Next thing you know, those students and their parents will need to sign a contract just for those kids to take a bathroom break.

[hobbit709]

27. If I had come home with a piece of BS like that.

The first thing that would have happened is my mother would have cracked up laughing. she certainly wouldn't have signed it-she has an even lower opinion of authority than I have.

[Cleita]

13. Why not just cancel the dance if all of the above

are such a concern and have some other kind of celebration, a picnic, a barbeque? :shrug:

[Hepburn]

14. Wow...

...how things have changed. When I was in HS back in the dark ages, the only rules were: No shoes on the gym floor, no smoking on campus and no outsiders!

:shrug:

[Iggo]

16. Fear of parents, children, and lawsuits have changed that forever.

[Hepburn]

19. When I was in elementary school in the 1950s, the WORST thing any adult could say was...

..."I am going to call your parents."

Oh, shit!!!! :scared:

[Iggo]

24. I went in the 60's and 70's.

Catholic school, where they literally put the fear of god into us. Then public school, where it was more like, "Go ahead. Call my mom. Tell her how you plan to smack me with that plexigass paddle right there. Here, I'll dial for you." The power shifted, and for the better as far as violence against children is concerned.

But fear of putting on a dance? That's just too much. I need a Christian side-hug.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa0EtdtPi8w&feature=related

[Cal Carpenter]

15. Both feet on the floor?

Then how is it even dancing? LOL, I'm picturing a bunch of teens shuffling around like zombies.

[hayu_lol]

17. Obviously, none of these rule-makers...

ever did the jitterbug. Or the wonderful world of ballroom dancing of the same approximate period.

Maybe admins should be required to read Carrie.

[sakabatou]

18. Oh for fuck's sake...

[aikoaiko]

20. Would be banned at Truman High School....

....

[rug]

22. They even got to the band.

[Lucian]

23. So...it's not a dance then?

Sounds like all you can do is stand there.

If I were one of those students, I'd go to a friends house so I could get freaky, instead of a stupid no-dance dance.

[alittlelark]

25. I'm not sure many ppl here understand 'freak dancing'

My teens explained it to me last year... even they are 'freaked out' by it. The ppl 'freaking' stay in the inner core of the dance floor to avoid being seen.

It is highly sexual.... and NO I am not a prude.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=freak%20dancing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grinding_%28dance%29

Please - no flames - I just want to make sure ppl here understand what it is.:hide:

[Recursion]

28. Yeah, the one where the guy throws the girl to the floor

and simulates (or occasionally performs) sex. It's violent and disturbing. I imagine that's the idea behind "both feet on the floor", though I admit that will make moving around difficult without leaving a lot of scuff marks on the gym floor (especially if the girls are in heels, too).

What bugs me isn't the prudishness (a large degree of prudishness is probably called for at a high school dance) but the litigiousness. Rather than coming up with a list of acceptable behavior they should just say "we will stop any dancing we consider inappropriate".

[KansasVoter]

26. LOL.....My Alma Mater!

[Nye Bevan]

29. Hungry Eyes..... one look at you and I can't disguise

I got Hungry Eyes....

[seabeyond]

30. they are asking kids not to fuck or simulate fucking on the dance floor.

i know, i know... we ask WAY too much of our kids today.