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Remember your school dance?

"The 'dancing' of our youngsters today is one step from events that should be occurring on wedding nights," he wrote in an e-mail to parents.


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buz said:

"I wouldn't go," said Chelsea Walsh, 15, a sophomore at Aliso Niguel High. "It would be boring. How else do you dance?"
appropriatness is in the eye of the beholder. the beholders eye is influenced by their upbringing and environment. where there is little to no parental guidlines from which a teen is to draw...then the above statement seems appropriate. the lack of sexual inhibitions of this generation seems right on course for a narcissistic generation. we live in a society that largely believes 'if there is nothing in it for me, why bother', thus chelsea's response.

John said:

"the beholders eye is influenced by their upbringing and environment. where there is little to no parental guidlines from which a teen is to draw...then the above statement seems appropriate."

Well, it's certainly understandable. The problems that have been seeping into our society because of poor to nonexistant parenting should be a huge concern for everyone.

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