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In reply to the discussion: High School’s Bold Decision to Outlaw School Dances [View all]LynneSin
(95,337 posts)Look, in the end the key word in that article is 'uncomfortable' and none of us know exactly what that means. Some of you have gone the one direction that it is prudish kids who are hateful, spiteful close-minded assholes who are complaining about other kids not like them. I want you to know that this could be a very valid definition as to what they are defining as 'uncomfortable'. But if you read the article, no where was words related to race and/or sexual preference used in that article. So to say they were upset about same-sex couples dancing together or kids of another race - it's all assumptions.
Maybe my assumptions went the other way, because I know last time I danced with someone and felt uncomfortable was when some guy I barely met started to bump and grind way too close for my tastes. I have no issues with dancing close with someone else but not some total stranger I just met. But my solution was to say 'Thank you' and walk away. But what if the people who complained of feeling 'uncomfortable' were girls being targeted by boys who were making sexual advances at them and not in a good way? Don't you think the school has a right to intervene and address the issue especially if it seems there are many girls experiencing the same issue. Better to be pro-active in the issue than to have several families complain their girls were raped at the school dance.
The article is vague, but for us to assume either reason probably not smart. What we can hope is that these open forum will come to some dialogue where the dances can resume again and that people will not feel uncomfortable (and we don't find out it was the first reason because that would piss me off!)