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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They learn manners. That can't be bad. Isn't a LGBTQ issue[/quote]

It is if the idea of girls dancing with other girls is so scary that they'd rather exclude girls who want to participate.[/quote]

This is a little too glib. When you learn to dance, you learn the steps based on whether you lead or follow. Learning both is an advanced skill, and you don't usually learn both at the same time. Especially in a once-a-month class for kids where dancing is only part of the program: there's just not time for that level of dance instruction.

So if girls are dancing with other girls, one of them is learning to lead. I would not assume that a gay girl, even if out, necessarily wants to learn to lead. It would be very weird to put that pressure on her to choose. And a straight girl presumably does not want to learn to lead.

What you want is a cotillion class that doesn't include ballroom dancing.[/quote]

It’s this. Dances like the pretzel have different steps depending on which person in the couple dancing. You can call the different roles whatever you want (the boy/the girl, the lead, partner 1/ partner 2) but most of the dances won’t work with randomly pairing the kids because they may not have learned the other role. And there isn’t enough time in a once a month few hour class for kids this age to learn both roles. My DD went to a different cotillion with same gender imbalance issue and it was about 80% girls and it was a huge headache. The kids didn’t necessarily care about 2 girls dancing together but they couldn’t understand who did what part and got very frustrated. It wasn’t fun and was too complicated.

I am not sure if some political troll has started this thread. It’s not political. If a trans girl or boy wants to take cotillion they’d be welcome and would then learn the part of their gender. This isn’t a red state school bathroom issue. And many of the dances they learn they will use later on in life (at weddings and other formal events) where it is helpful to know how to dance dances that aren’t from teen parties, Tik Tok or a nightclub.

It’s supposed to be fun. For all the kids. [/quote]

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