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Mom says what teens did at school dance was "dadgum nasty"
The bumping and grinding on the dance floor "really had me sick to my stomach," says the 53-year-old woman. Parents in Argyle, Texas are sharply divided over a new resolve by school officials to crack down on skimpy clothing and sexually suggestive dancing. "This is not just shaking your booty," says the school's chief. (Wall Street Journal)
November 19, 2007 | Permalink
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I want my MTV.
Posted by: Dick C. Normas | Nov 19, 2007 6:35:03 AM
Oh for the Love of Number 17. These people have so much money time and energy and THIS is what they decide to spend on it.
Isn't there a park that wants cleaning up? Or some old people who need company or help around the house. A food bank that need to be stocked?
I'm talking the parents here, and they can drag their damn brats along with them.
Posted by: NellAgain | Nov 19, 2007 6:36:48 AM
Now, did they get that quote correct? Because I'm sure it's "dag-gum" with the emphasis on the "gum." Maybe I'm wrong...
My daughter's local high school got a new principal last year, and she made her mark by putting in place a list of rules for the dances. The rules were aimed at putting a stop to the bump-and-grind that's popular, but went so far as to require "air time" between slow-dancing partners as well.
While parents really didn't seem to give a shit one way or the other, the students on the other hand rallied and for a second year running the school has seen dismal dance attendance rates, even for homecoming. The only dance to have high attendance was the prom, and that was restricted to 11th and 12th grades.
Posted by: Soo | Nov 19, 2007 6:39:16 AM
While we're on the subject of school dances, especially proms, what is their exact purpose?
Has anyone even put on a prom dress since the last time they were at a prom? (Cross-dressers excused this question)
I can see the point of practically every other high school activity (even if its not terribly clever or well-executed) but putting a bunch teenagers in a large room, turn down the lights and turn up the music what EXACTLY do parents and teachers think is going to happen? Parcheesi?
Posted by: NellAgain | Nov 19, 2007 6:45:55 AM
"Freak dancing" is just a fad. The more fuss that administrators and parents make about it, the more the kids will want to do it.
The dance dress code is a separate issue. It's not a bad idea to have reasonable guidelines for what students should wear to school functions. As long as it's not overly restrictive and is publicized well ahead of time, it shouldn't be a huge issue.
One things for sure: these freak dancing, cleavage-baring dress wearing kids will someday freak out themselves over what their children are doing!
Posted by: Phranqlin | Nov 19, 2007 6:55:02 AM
these are the same parents that teach their children about talking snakes, magical god claps, and how to worship a cult leader that was named jesus.
according to the evidence, they must want to supress their children's natural, sexual urges so that it is saved up for their priests or preachers.
"here is 20% of my paycheck and my vigin son. does i gets into heaven now, boss?"~overheard at masses all over the world
Posted by: buddy | Nov 19, 2007 6:57:05 AM
Vociferously some have whined,
But others just don't seem to mind.
One mom had digestive
Distress at suggestive
Gyrations when kids bump and grind.
Posted by: KC | Nov 19, 2007 7:04:44 AM
As I get older I try to make sure I do not become one of those people who criticizes everything that young people do. Fads change, music changes, but in the end the kids are the same. In the early 20th century a woman had to cover from head to toe on the beach or she was considered to be a slut (see funny story below). In the 1940's and 50's parents used to think Rock and Roll music was disgusting and all the kids who listened to it were screwed up in the head. Kids don't have sex because of the music they listen to or the way they dance. They do it mostly based on the way their parents raise them.
"In 1907 the swimmer Annette Kellerman from Australia visited the United States as an "underwater ballerina", a version of synchronized swimming involving diving into glass tanks. She was arrested for indecent exposure because her swimsuit showed arms, legs and the neck."
Posted by: G-Man | Nov 19, 2007 7:13:08 AM
If the girls danced like that at my High School dances, I would have gone to more of them.
I'm no psychologist, but I'd think this behaviour is backlash to the increasing use of the law and other authority to enforce zero-tolerance 'christian morality' on our young people. Kids of this age group are noticing that they are becoming less free as the years go by, and they don't seem to be accepting that!
Posted by: Sean, Torrington CT | Nov 19, 2007 7:22:05 AM
I suspect Prom is a hold-over from our nation's days with more regimented social guidelines and classes.
What is a prom, but the middle-class aping their upper-class betters and simulating a young debutante's "coming out" party?
That's pretty much what is seems like to me...let's pretend we're rich and genteel and what have you.
Posted by: Sean, Torrington CT | Nov 19, 2007 7:24:15 AM
Well I'm all for freedom of expression. But there's a time and a place in which that expression might properly be displayed. Is a school dance the aproprate venue for what is essentially simulated sex? Hell, one might even call it sex. Even with their clothes on, if these young people are making physical contact and...um...vigorously rubbing against each other, there's probably some orgasms happening:P
Posted by: Dave | Nov 19, 2007 7:28:11 AM
All I can say is....
Welcome to the "hip-hop/rap" culture, where acting like a scumbag criminal/sexual deviant is considered "cool".
What do you expect of a "culture" that refers to women as "bitches and ho's" on a regular basis?
Kids didn't really start acting like this until this crap hit the scene.
But all of this is just part of the many reasons why "rap/hip-hop" is NOT tolerated in my house.
Or
Here's a much shorter way of putting it:
This is what happens when you let your kids think it's ok to go thru life behaving like a typical "n-word".
(BTW, I already expect to get a bunch of crap (you're a racist, blah, blah, blah) for saying all of this....but all I can say is....YOU KNOW ITS THE TRUTH, so you can call me all the names in the book, but it doesn't change anything about the reality we all see every day.)
Posted by: Dee Dee Dee | Nov 19, 2007 7:32:49 AM
Dee Dee Dee,
Apart from the racist crap - dry humping kids are sexual deviants? Seems to me that as long as their cloths are on they aren't getting pregnant.
Posted by: SteveO | Nov 19, 2007 7:43:28 AM
DDD You are correct!
Posted by: Dick C. Normas | Nov 19, 2007 8:00:38 AM
DDD and DCN, You guys really need to read some history --if you think rap/hip-hop was the ship that sleazy dancing, naughty words, and bad attitudes sailed in on, you are in for something of a shock.
Posted by: NellAgain | Nov 19, 2007 8:07:58 AM
Actually NellAgain, that wasn't point.
My point was that it wasn't anywhere near this level 10 or 20 years ago, and ever since "rap/hip-hop" come on the scene, this is where it got us.
Oh, and for any moron who wants to even TRY and make the comparison between "rock/heavy metal" and the "rap/hip-hop" scene, I'm gonna say right now that you obviously have NO idea what you're talking about.
BTW, you ever heard a rock song called "cop-killer" or "blow-job betty"?
Of course not, because they're both "songs" by "rap artists".
Yea, sounds like real "artistry" to me.
Posted by: Dee Dee Dee | Nov 19, 2007 8:24:12 AM
Rap be da ruit of all wevil.
Posted by: Otis | Nov 19, 2007 8:28:12 AM
How many years now has this topic been discussed and debated?
Aren't teenagers supposed to do what their parents do not want them to do?
Posted by: The Asshole Guy | Nov 19, 2007 8:31:30 AM
A-hole Guy....
What I find funny about that comment is that I think the whole reason why people have been having this discussion for years is simply because they were concerned that if their wasn't a line drawn to begin with, this is exactly where we would end up.
And low and behold......here we are.
Posted by: Dee Dee Dee | Nov 19, 2007 8:39:15 AM
Dee Dee Dee - I know both of those songs very well. What is wrong with killing a cop that is corrupt and is trying to kill you? What is wrong with calling a woman a whore if she is acting like one?
oh but i forgot, there wasn't any crime before the 1980s. Everything was great.
chrisitanity has caused more unjust death than hip hop. lets talk about that... that is, if you can hear me way up there on your pedistal.
Posted by: buddy | Nov 19, 2007 8:39:50 AM
The phrases "cop-killer" and "blow-job betty" both appeared in detective literature as early as the 1930's which I think slightly pre-dates the evolution of rap.
In fact, Lenny Bruce used the phrase "blow-job betty" in his routines and in his book. (Not that Lenny was the world's greatest role model)
I must be suffering the same sort delusion as buddy--I distinctly remember both sex and crime occuring before 1980. I've even read about it in the Bible.
Posted by: NellAgain | Nov 19, 2007 8:46:27 AM
I'd rather talk about teenagers having orgasms by dry humping each other. I kinda like where that was going. Can we focus on that, please?
Posted by: Dave | Nov 19, 2007 8:46:34 AM
Oh, so since you have no real argument, you wanna compare apples to engine crates?
Uhuh, and like they say:
"If you're not a part of the solution, you're part of the problem...."
And it's looking like you diffently aren't part of the solution.
Wow, comparing "rap" to "christianity"....that's just classic.
Posted by: Dee Dee Dee | Nov 19, 2007 8:48:33 AM
You're right Dee Dee Dee, comparing rap to Christianity is disgusting.
After all I haven't read many news stories of rappers sexually molesting young kids or killing people who refused to convert to their religion.
Posted by: G-Man | Nov 19, 2007 8:58:29 AM
Echoing some of the other comments: In other news, this new fangled "rock and roll music" is poisoning the minds of our youth causing them to convulse and scream. Come on. I thought we sorted this all out in, oh, 1957. Also, if I do the math, a 53 year old woman in 2007 was probably attending a high school dance in 1972. Not exactly an era known for its restrained moral values. Perhaps she was a bystander in the post hippie free sex, drugs, and rock and roll "me" era surge, but it's not like she is coming directly out of the Eisenhower or Hoover era here.
Posted by: VoxMoose | Nov 19, 2007 8:59:02 AM
