Christian School Forbids Student From Prom, Dancing

[Schlosser85]

At my boyfriend's Christian school, if there were even rumors you were gay, the STUDENT COUNCIL would investigate the validity of them, and if they found you were gay, you were expelled.

My boyfriend was president of the student council for two years....not too many expulsions of gays going on during that time ;-)

 

[Metamorpho1977]

It's like Footloose in real life!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090508/ap_on_re_us/us_school_dance_flap

It's places like that that make Christians look bad.

 

[Metamorpho1977]

Old news.

My high school career ran from '95-'99, and we were not allowed to have dances: after ball games, homecoming, prom, etc.

The school would put on an event that consisted of the students having pie and soda's, a la a dinner theater type environment.

However, we were 'allowed' to have a dance, if one of the parents put it on. Said parent could not be apart of ANY organization. Hence, if Mrs. Smith was a booster, cheerleader mom, etc - she could not "host."

Seeing as my family gave a ****. Ma Storm allowed us to use her dance studio after most ball games, and other dances.

Still, years after I've graduated, the students know that Ma Storm will allowed them to use her studio for parties.

Weird, crazy. . yet true.

Isn't there a school in Roswell, Ga that still segregates their prom? They did until 1996 when I graduated, but I'm not sure if they still do.

 

[Paradyme]

It's places like that that make Christians look bad.

Exactly.

 

[Metamorpho1977]

There is nothing wrong with dancing. The Bible said David danced. If it's ok for David, then it's ok for those kids at the prom.

 

[JStorm]

Isn't there a school in Roswell, Ga that still segregates their prom? They did until 1996 when I graduated, but I'm not sure if they still do.

I wouldn't know. But as for the thread, MrvlKnight21 can confirm more on Christian Schools and their wacky rules - he went to the rival school, oppose to mine.


Little side story: My freshman year the Dean conducted a special school gathering to explain the love of Christ. Before said "event," we thought it was just another Chapel. We were wrong. As we gathered in, eight seniors stood with the Dean. The Dean began his speech about the love of Christ - which was fine, considering a Christian school - but immediately following his speech/sermon, he "outed" the eight seniors for having premarital sex. For them to stay and graduate, they had to renounce Satan and ask for the forgiveness of their classmates.

Their "acts" did not happen on school property or time. They were caught because of the stupidity of one of the girls - note writing - and thus were told to do what I wrote above.

I remember thinking "would Jesus tell Peter to out all of his sins to the other Apostles or else. . . "

True story.

 

[moraldeficiency]

WTF would anyone send their kids to a place like this to begin with? When the rules consist of no dancing and no kissing who would do that to a kid? All the parents of children at this school should be rounded up and shot in the ****ing face. Congrats you've managed to reduce your child's experimentative and growth years into preconditioned religious drivel, there's a very special place in hell for this kind of abuse. All Michael Bolton music all the time.

 

[The Lizard]

Well, the real point of this article was not so much that this particular school forbids dancing, rock music, etc on its own campus (which is honestly their right, like it or not), but that one of its students was being threatened with expulsion for going to a dance at a completely different school on his own time.

 

[moraldeficiency]

I think both are pretty stupid with the school's policies bordering on abuse if not outright abuse. It's like not allowing toddlers to walk, you're fundamentally delaying a step in growth with this stuff, and it will have dramatic effects down the line and for the rest of these kids lives.

 

[JStorm]

WTF would anyone send their kids to a place like this to begin with? When the rules consist of no dancing and no kissing who would do that to a kid? All the parents of children at this school should be rounded up and shot in the ****ing face. Congrats you've managed to reduce your child's experimentative and growth years into preconditioned religious drivel, there's a very special place in hell for this kind of abuse. All Michael Bolton music all the time.

Not ALL parents.

My mother read the handbook, before I entered into my Freshman year. She liked the idea of male students being made to tuck in his shirt, dress clothes on Chapel day, and a decent, "all-around" disciplinarian style.

But when she got to the "no school dances" part she scoffed, as you did. Being a dance studio owner, and teacher, she did not like the idea of a board telling students that dancing is a sin. "Tuck in your shirt, son." She liked that. I guess it taught me to be more cleanly, etc.

But as for someone telling me what to do, and when to do - at the cost of the act being a sin - my parents held that responsibility.

 

[The Lizard]

I think both are pretty stupid with the school's policies bordering on abuse if not outright abuse. It's like not allowing toddlers to walk, you're fundamentally delaying a step in growth with this stuff, and it will have dramatic effects down the line and for the rest of these kids lives.

Your opinion, but not the universal opinion of parents everywhere, obviously.
I personally think it's stupid too, and I certainly wouldn't put my kids in such a school -- but there are actually plenty of kids who grow up in rigidly-controlled educational environments who end up happy and "normally developed" (which is a totally subjective state of being, BTW).

I don't think "shooting in the face" is the most open-minded attitude towards the fact that people are different and can thrive in different environments - even ones that seem overly restrictive to the majority.

 

[amazingfantasy15]

There is nothing wrong with dancing. The Bible said David danced. If it's ok for David, then it's ok for those kids at the prom.

They conviently forget about those passages. That or they knew David didn't dance to the devil's rock music.

 

[moraldeficiency]

Your opinion, but not the universal opinion of parents everywhere, obviously.
I personally think it's stupid too, and I certainly wouldn't put my kids in such a school -- but there are actually plenty of kids who grow up in rigidly-controlled educational environments who end up happy and "normally developed" (which is a totally subjective state of being, BTW).

I don't think "shooting in the face" is the most open-minded attitude towards the fact that people are different and can thrive in different environments - even ones that seem overly restrictive to the majority.

I'll tell you what, we'll meet in the middle and just agree the parents should be "hobbled".

If it was just dancing, that might be one thing (personally I can't dance worth a damn so no big deal) but that laundry list of don'ts are pretty much all the stuff kids need to experiment with before being 18 and having their lives completely their own. It's just part of growing up and you're not grown up until you have certian experiences under your belt. When you freak people out so much they wouldn't even consider kissing a girl, you've basically handicapped your child's life in a pretty big way (and I don't think college is gonna work out unless you go to one of those crazy religious ones).

There's just a difference between wanting your kids to have the best and deciding every ****ing choice, belief and ideal they'll ever have.

 

[The Squirrel]

This really doesn't surprise me considering it is a Baptist school.

 

[JStorm]

I'll tell you what, we'll meet in the middle and just agree the parents should be "hobbled".

If it was just dancing, that might be one thing (personally I can't dance worth a damn so no big deal) but that laundry list of don'ts are pretty much all the stuff kids need to experiment with before being 18 and having their lives completely their own. It's just part of growing up and you're not grown up until you have certian experiences under your belt. When you freak people out so much they wouldn't even consider kissing a girl, you've basically handicapped your child's life in a pretty big way (and I don't think college is gonna work out unless you go to one of those crazy religious ones).

There's just a difference between wanting your kids to have the best and deciding every ****ing choice, belief and ideal they'll ever have.

Listerfiend.

 

[mrvlknight21]

I wouldn't know. But as for the thread, MrvlKnight21 can confirm more on Christian Schools and their wacky rules - he went to the rival school, oppose to mine.


Little side story: My freshman year the Dean conducted a special school gathering to explain the love of Christ. Before said "event," we thought it was just another Chapel. We were wrong. As we gathered in, eight seniors stood with the Dean. The Dean began his speech about the love of Christ - which was fine, considering a Christian school - but immediately following his speech/sermon, he "outed" the eight seniors for having premarital sex. For them to stay and graduate, they had to renounce Satan and ask for the forgiveness of their classmates.

Their "acts" did not happen on school property or time. They were caught because of the stupidity of one of the girls - note writing - and thus were told to do what I wrote above.

I remember thinking "would Jesus tell Peter to out all of his sins to the other Apostles or else. . . "

True story.

Yeah, we had something like that happen as well when a girl wound up pregnant. They could apologize to everyone at the school and finish the school year or not apologize and be expelled. This happened a couple of times, if I recall correctly. I remember one couple that did not apologize and they were expelled.

We didnt have a contract to sign, but obviously, there were rules. Nothing really bad or crazy in my opinion. I personally really loved my school.

I always dated girls from other schools (public schools) and went to their proms/dances with them. Obviously there was never a problem.

 

[moraldeficiency]

Listerfiend.

Exactely, now tell me that's not abuse.

 

[Venomfan]

It's all in the founding of the United States. See, Great Britain went through a period where it flipped back and forth between Catholicism and the newly founded Anglican movement (I think you can thank Henry VIII's divorce habit and his heirs all having different beliefs for that). Anyway, the official religion of Britain switched around so much in such a short period of time, a splinter group known as the Puritans was created. The Puritans were the most uptight group of buzzkills you'd ever seen.

Skip ahead in time, and the Brits are sending businessmen and farmers to the New World (the colonies that would later become the US) to get stuff like cotton and tobacco. Eventually, they decide to give the Puritans the ol' boot, and sent all of them to the New World. The Puritans (and one or two splinter groups) founded roughly half of the original 13 colonies that would become the United States (the others being founded for business purposes, New York to pay off a debt, and one other as a penal colony).

Thus those wacky Puritan beliefs are part of the foundation of American culture. What exactly made the Puritans so stuck up? These were the people who started the Salem Witch Trials, where countless men and women were hanged if anyone caught them out dancing at night, drinking too heavily, missing church, or just having too much fun.

That's why we have such a proclivity for fundamentalist Christians who forbid high school dances or the teaching of evolution in school science classes.

ya i've learned that stuff in school, the worst part is that Christianity was never meant to be this governmental religion that it became after Constantine. When Christians aren't in government they are great, but as soon as Christianity and government get mixed together it doesn't look much like Christianity any more. the puritans i think were great at the start, wanting to get rid back to the basics of Christianity, but after they got power, they went nuts. I don't know much about american history though, i thought most of the founding fathers were deists?

 

[Majic Walrus]

What kind of jobs do you get with that?

Teaching "Creation Science" to other people... Also fiction writing.

 

[Carcharodon]

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I'll let that one go.

Let what go?

 

[Carcharodon]

Double-Post. Yay, Hype! lag!

 

[XSpidercideX]

Frost, a senior at Heritage Christian School in northwest Ohio

Heritage Christian School in Ohio? Thats the same place Marilyn Manson went to school.

I think he got kicked out in tenth grade stealing money during prayer or something. I wonder if they ban rock because of Manson's music, or if they were like that when he was there as well?

 

[The Guard]

These were the people who started the Salem Witch Trials, where countless men and women were hanged if anyone caught them out dancing at night, drinking too heavily, missing church, or just having too much fun.

19 people is countless? Or do you just mean in general, after said trials were finished?

 

[Sawyer]

Buncha fascists running that school...

 

[Crazy Flakes]

They conviently forget about those passages. That or they knew David didn't dance to the devil's rock music.

They could let their students go to any dance they want as long as the dance plays nothing but traditional Christian hymns played on the lute. Problem solved.