Dirty Dancing Banned in the O.C.

Three cheers for this principal!  I don't consider myself a Puritan, but this is outrageous!  I don't know which is worse: a) the behavior of the teenagers; b) the acceptance (at least until Salter acted) of their behavior by the teachers and principals who are monitoring these dances; c) the cluelessness of the parents; or d) the apparent failure of the parents (and schools) to instill in these youth any good sense or morality.  If I ever caught one of my daughters behaving like this, I'm not sure what I'd do, but ideas that come to mind include no social activities that include boys for a few months and no dances for a year.

Young couples were grinding away like gears to the pulse of Sisqo's "How Many Licks."

But in September, an exasperated Salter pulled the switch on the back-to-school dance with its jungle theme.

"I closed the dance down early," Salter says. " I came into my office, it must have been about midnight, and I knew I had to address this."

In the wee hours of the morning, Salter fired off an e-mail to parents and teachers:

"Why do our girls have to have themselves so exposed? Why do they have to have cleavage displayed so overtly and slits high up their thighs and then allow boys to dance right up against them? … I am not going to allow this to continue to happen. If there is going to be another dance, then you as parents and your children will have to sit down with me to make some huge changes because I cannot and will not have what my staff and I had to deal with today."

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Dirty Dancing Banned in the O.C.

Freak Dancing Is Too Hot for a California High School

http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=2660251&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

By LAURA COVERSON

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 16, 2006 — A popular high school principal in the wealthy enclave of Aliso Viejo — in California's so-called "O.C." (Orange County) — has put his foot down on "dirty dancing."