“Sadly that’s just the shift”.
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Parsons said he understands the principal had a tough decision to make.
At the school’s homecoming dance in September 2014, an announcement was made reminding students that grinding was not allowed. Two-thirds of party-goers walked out of the school, Record said.
Record explains to parents exactly what grinding entails, and says it’s making dance chaperones uncomfortable.
Students are rightfully upset, and senior Billy Ruby said of the bonfire, “Word around the school is no one is going to go, and it’s going to be lame”.
Parents also complained about their children being “exposed to conduct that they believe should not occur at school”, Record wrote in the letter.
“We’re not a nightclub, we’re a school, and we have core values”, Record said.
“My job is the safety and security of my students, and I take that extraordinarily seriously”, he said. The seventh declined to comment. “If there’s people grinding, kick them out”, a junior tells the Portland Press Herald. “If they want to come to the dance and have many more dances, they probably need to submit and follow”, Father, Kent Conley says.
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Though for a few teenagers school dances bring out their inner wallflower (they are extremely awkward), for others, it’s their time to shine on the dance floor with their friends and have a blast. A high school in Vermont banned last year’s homecoming dance because of an increased amount of twerking, another sexually provocative type of dance that involves squatting and hip thrusting.
