Bellevue Ohio, has banned school dances until further notice. This ban was in response to pictures of inappropriate dancing at a school dance, which was published this week on the school newspaper the Bellevue Gazette’s Facebook page. The photos have been removed at the request of the superintendant. Parents and students at the Ohio high school, feel that the superintendant, Kim Schubert is overreacting to the content of the pictures. According to Schubert, all school dances are suspended “until all parties have worked together to set clear expectations for student behavior”.
I understand the superintendant’s reaction to the inappropriate photographs and the fact that they were published in a public forum, but the students should not be the only ones held accountable. The repercussions should be felt by everyone involved in the scandal. The students should have shown more discretion and behaved in a manner that was appropriate at a school function, but the newspaper should not have published the incriminating photos, they should have known the inappropriateness of publishing anything that would show their school in a poor light. Where were the chaperones? In all my years of school dances, there were always plenty of chaperones. Parents and teachers, all of them moving amongst the crowds of irresponsible teenagers, providing them with a moral compass that many would leave at the door on their way to having a good time. To punish all the students for the actions of the ignorant few, seems to be a severe overreaction on the part of the superintendant. I know that inappropriate behavior has to be stopped, but to what extent, perhaps if more supervision had been provided the dancing situation would never have occurred.
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