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<p>Comment, post, whatever you’d like to call it. Too funny.</p>
<p>Oops, double post.</p>
<p>Our kids’ school stopped having dances at the middle school because chaperones got sick of trying to deal with it. Some mothers got together and started their own series of dances, five per school year, for the two private schools in our town. My daughter says the lines are pretty clear in that the “cool, fast” crowd does it, the others don’t. More girls at the other school do it which is one of the many reasons we’re happy that several years ago we pulled out kids out and into this one. I’m not a big fan of it. Get a room as they say!</p>
<p>I apparently snorted out loud yesterday while reading this thread and my son asked me what I was reading about. I told him the title and he said, “MOM! My friends and I don’t to that, that’s gross!” I love my boy!</p>
<p>At our public high school, parents and students have to sign a contract for dances. It explicitly states no drinking and no grinding, etc. They will make kids leave if they violate the contract - or at least they reserve the right to.</p>
<p>At one of my daughter’s high school dances (actually a multi-school dance), I was a chaperone assigned to break up any grinding or otherwise inappropriate behavior on the dance floor. My daughter warned me for signs indicating a grinding episode: kids in a circle, attempting to shield the dancers from adult eyes.</p>
<p>I never saw anything out of line.</p>
<p>Get over it.</p>
<p>At my former high school you didn’t go to the dances pretty much if you didn’t grind. I knew lots of students who did it not because of any sexual motivations but just because it was such a RAGING fad that they didn’t feel confident enough to go to the dances and dance any other way, because it would have been a major departure from current style.</p>
<p>It doesn’t help that they literally play nothing but hip hop at our dances. On the rare occasion that they play something else the dancing styles are generally much more diverse. I’m not sure why, but that’s always how it’s been in my experience.</p>
<p>The hip-hop thing has been a weird happening at my kids school. All of the kids that I know tend to listen to rock (alternative or classic) but their dances often feature hip-hop music. I think it’s because the DJ’s play in the near-by city and think that all kids like the same music.</p>
<p>Grinding is a wondering custom for guys who can’t dance.</p>