Newsome High School in Riverview is instituting a new dance policy for school dances. The new policy can be summed up in one phrase: "Face to face with space". Teachers are relieved, parents seem on board, and students are outraged!
Isn't it written into the Constitution that students can "bump and grind" at school dances? "A lot of the seniors aren't going to be down to just dance face to face and I think we should dance how we want," student Kat Marshall told FOX 13. In typical teenager fashion many of the students are already planning their own dance with all the bumping and grinding a teen could ever want. I am going to go out on a limb here and bet money that most of these alternative dances will be hosted by, paid for, and "chaperoned" by "concerned" parents who think that the school is just a bully to their little precious.
Really parents? Wake up! It's time for parents to be parents. It's not your job to save the dance, or be your kid's best buddy! It's your job to train them up in the way that they should go so that when they are old they will not depart from it (Proverbs 22:6) We live in a society with far too many parents living vicariously through their children. Parents run around over-protecting their kids on one angle and then not protecting them at all when and where they should.
So parents, don't rush in to save the dance. Don't support your child's urge to raise an uproar so they can bump and grind. Don't encourage their rants on facebook about the change in policy. What, you didn't know they had a facebook? Really?
Bravo Mr. Mckeen!!! Bravo!
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