I chaperoned my first dance and I survived to tell the story! Wowee. My feet hurt, I'm sticky, and my voice is hoarse from talking over the music. But, you caught me, I had fun! I can't say that I'm going to become the token dance chaperone volunteer, but, once a year, when my ASB students host their class's dance, I know that there's no need for dread.
Yay for:
Seeing my students in a different context
Watching my kids go crazy and being able to laugh rather than "chat" with them after class
Bonding with my colleagues
Fun music
Girls who are confident enough to have fun even without a boy to dance with
Kids yelling, "M.C. Gowan! Let's see you get down!"
The sudden change of dance style when kids are "caught" freak dancing and the laughter that follows.
Nay for:
Freak dancing
Confiscating ID cards for freak dancing
Students (strangers) who freak dance with me when I tell them to stop freak dancing
Students (mine) who freak dance with me while I try to get away (okay, this is a smidgen funny despite it's utter inappropriateness)
Friday, May 19, 2006
It's official!!!
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2 comments:
The solution for ending freak dancing is to take away their ID cards? And that does...? I'm interested to see how you high school people are handling this issue, as at the beginning of the year we were quite concerned. I still think you should try hosing them down with a fire hose if the ID card thing doesn't work.
PS My dad wanted to know if you got paid for working the dance, and I told him that I was pretty sure you had to do it because the school makes you. Where in one's teaching contract is it stated, "Will listen to loud, obnoxious music while students attempt to have sex on the dance floor, for free"?
Ha. Paid. My extra-curricular activity=freshman class advisor. Alas, this was a freshman sponsored activity. Our contract does state that we have to participate in an extra-curricular activity. I can't say that I wasn't warned about this one. Maybe next year I'll sponsor a club or take tickets at the football games!
We take their ID cards, and if they don't have an ID card, they get kicked out of the dance. The administration did use squirt guns at a previous dance!!
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