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Poll: Is Dirty Dancing a Problem at High School Events?

Give us your opinion on teens' overtly sexual dance moves.

For the last few years, I've heard local moms complain about the groping and grinding style of "dirty dancing" seen among today's teenagers. Many expressed horror at the thought of their own children doing it and confusion over whether parents should be breaking up the simulated sex they were seeing on dance-floors.

Well, now it's homecoming season, which means the first dance of the year for many schools. In Princeton, officials dealt with the dirty dancing issue by . Though there have been occassional problems with alcohol and drugs at this dance, the superintendent of schools said it’s the inappropriate dancing that forced administrators to cancel the event.

Would you approve of this approach for our local high schools? How do you think parents and school personnel should respond to overtly sexual dance moves by teenagers? Let us know in the poll.

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