Landon Dance

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was chaperoning at a middle-school dance at a school that I will not name here, and one of the girls was led off the dance floor in pallor and tremors. The other chaperones offered her a drink of water and asked whether she wished to call her parents and be pick up early, She declined, and nothing more was done about this girl. She could have been drinking. She could have been on drugs. This was never reported, so it never made the rounds of a forum like this. But this kind of thing happens at lots of schools.

Why didn't you do something then?

I was out-numbered by chaperones who wanted just to give her a drink of water.

[Anonymous]

Yes, and most chaperones at these dances turn a blind eye to what's going on and merely talk to each other for most of the evening.

[Anonymous]

I've chaperoned before at a middle school dance, and parent chaperones are not allowed near the dance floor; we are in the next room, separated by a doorway and we cannot see what is happening on the dance floor. The school teacher-chaperones are the ones who are standing around the dance floor. The parent-chaperones are there just to take admission fees, see that uninvited kids don't get in, and see that kids don't walk off the premises or into dark nooks.