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Why do high school dances have to be so raunchy?! My parents always tell me how some of their best memories were at their high school dances. I want to go to a dance and see people actually dancing, not grinding hardcore on their dance partner. Why?! How is that fun? It looks so awkward and uncomfortable. Why can’t dances just be wholesome are carefree. Like in old classic movies, when the beat is constant and contagious. I went to Winter Formal my sophomore year, it was enjoyable to a certain extent because I was with my friends. But it was so nauseatingly loud, and the music was awful, half of the time it was rap music (which in my opinion isn’t very fun to dance too.) Not to mention what sophomore wants to go to a dance and have a sweaty couple (grinding) keep bumping into them. It’s ridiculous. I saw girls and guys lead one another onto the dance floor to simply grind. It’s so un classy and disturbing. I just don’t understand how this form of dancing is enjoyable. Why does it have to pollute our dances? It makes me so frustrated! Girls and guys need to have more self respect and value themselves more. I am sure grinding isn’t something you would want your parents or grandparents to see. High school dances are out of control, they are extremely inappropriate and the kids go way too far. I don’t appreciate the fact that me and many of my friends refuse to go to dances because of the amount of grinding. If you are one of the few not participating in grinding, you are part of a minority. You will find yourself and a few of your close friends in a sea of students with raging hormones grinding it up left and right.