Public school principal apologizes after punishing student for ... dancing

I suppose trying to invent scenarios defending a religious zealot seems “trying to be objective” to religious zealots. To the rest of us, it’s just cuckoo. Let’s not try to defend cuckoo.

Hell even most kids at “Liberty” University think bans on dancing are stupid. There is no scenario where a public school official or principal should step in to punish a normal kid having a good time (esp when it’s on their own free time). Hell, the guy violated the constitution the moment he raised “God’s ideals”. Maybe the girl is a Christian whose family “allows” dancing. Maybe they are atheist. Maybe they are Jewish. Either way, none of his business and not the role of a government official to punish based on his own warped interpretation of “God’s ideals”. That’s called violating a person’s constitutional rights.

Guy needs to re-take civics 101. Ironically, he’s probably the type who laments young people’s understanding of civics and government.

 

Wasn’t Kevin Bacon in this movie?

 

Dammit. You beat me to it.

 

I think the guy overstepped big time. I have not seen the video of the dancing in question. Was it just typical dancing? Or was it explicit dancing? I do not know. But that is where the being objective part comes in. I am not sure you want to be objective here. Even though we likely agree on this issue. But I could be wrong.

 

me too

 

I think it was one of his first movies.

 

Not that I think how exactly she was dancing matters given the other details, but I was also curious if it was really over the top or something. There's a short video being circulated on X that may or may not be authentic. If that's it, it was not close to explicit based on what I saw.

 

Define “explicit” dancing.

The only wiggle room I see (pun not intended), is the guy could pull his *personal* recommendation. But any punishment or restrictions doled out in the name of “god” by the public school is a 100% clear violation of the girls constitutional rights. Full stop.

Not even sure why we are debating this. Even the nutbar principal already apologized and took a leave of absence. He provided you the answer already, he was in the wrong. It’s not in the news as a matter of debate, it gained national attention because of how cray-cray it is (yes, harkening back to that Kevin Bacon movie).

 

Exactly. This is what I was driving at.

 

As I said…I think we are in the same spot on the issue.

 

Another self appointed man of god

 

I've taught adults for 30 years & have written scores of lets of ref. # of times I've ever googled or in any way tried to find out about my ADULT students life, social media, etc =

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creep

 

You're a good man... everyone else will look into social media to find out any little piece of scrap that they can on other people... especially employers.

 

it

 

Needs to be fired