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Tuesday, February 08, 2005
Mommy Rant Time
This Friday night, the boys' elementary school will have its annual Valentines' Dinner and Dance. Open to the whole family, it's supposed to be a cute intro into the world of school dances. To help prepare the young skulls full of mush for their impending doom, they spend weeks of PE time learning how to dance.
Couples dancing. Box step. Maybe a waltz (I'm not sure.) Younger kids learn stuff like the Cotton Eyed Joe or the Virginia Reel.
Am I the only one who has a problem with this? I don't want my eleven year old boys dancing with a girl in PE- I want them beaning someone with a dodgeball. (Oh, wait... they can't do that, can they?) Tax payer dollars are being spent so that my kids can say "eewww" and dance with a girl. How sweet!
I also have a problem with some of the school dances. They start, in earnest, in 6th grade. I'm sorry. Sixth graders do NOT need to be going to dances. They are just discovering that the opposite sex is not totally evil. Why pressure them like this?
For two years, the boys' football team would practice at the middle school. Every year, we'd see the kids filing into the school for the school dances. I could not believe it. The girls... the way they were dressed... Brittney and Christina wanna-bes. I'm not sure what bothered me more- the idea of a sixth graders having a dance, or the fact that parents let their kids dress like that!
True story. In high school, I saw this really cute outfit, and I talked my dad into buying it for me. Well... I put it on and tried to walk out of the house with it... didn't happen. Once he saw it on me, he said "no way." I was so mad at the time, but now I'm grateful for his patience and persistence. I just wish more parents felt that way.
I cannot categorically state that my children will not go to any dances while they are in middle school. I can say that we'll have long talks about it. They didn't want to go to the V dance on Friday. That's a start for me.
Couples dancing. Box step. Maybe a waltz (I'm not sure.) Younger kids learn stuff like the Cotton Eyed Joe or the Virginia Reel.
Am I the only one who has a problem with this? I don't want my eleven year old boys dancing with a girl in PE- I want them beaning someone with a dodgeball. (Oh, wait... they can't do that, can they?) Tax payer dollars are being spent so that my kids can say "eewww" and dance with a girl. How sweet!
I also have a problem with some of the school dances. They start, in earnest, in 6th grade. I'm sorry. Sixth graders do NOT need to be going to dances. They are just discovering that the opposite sex is not totally evil. Why pressure them like this?
For two years, the boys' football team would practice at the middle school. Every year, we'd see the kids filing into the school for the school dances. I could not believe it. The girls... the way they were dressed... Brittney and Christina wanna-bes. I'm not sure what bothered me more- the idea of a sixth graders having a dance, or the fact that parents let their kids dress like that!
True story. In high school, I saw this really cute outfit, and I talked my dad into buying it for me. Well... I put it on and tried to walk out of the house with it... didn't happen. Once he saw it on me, he said "no way." I was so mad at the time, but now I'm grateful for his patience and persistence. I just wish more parents felt that way.
I cannot categorically state that my children will not go to any dances while they are in middle school. I can say that we'll have long talks about it. They didn't want to go to the V dance on Friday. That's a start for me.
