Dear Editor,
If you ever feel the need to hear some foul language or sexual
banter, just head to the Britton Junior High School dance. I
decided to observe the Britton Christmas dance last month and I
thought I’d let the parents and community know what I observed.
Dear Editor,
If you ever feel the need to hear some foul language or sexual banter, just head to the Britton Junior High School dance. I decided to observe the Britton Christmas dance last month and I thought I’d let the parents and community know what I observed.
When I arrived it was very dark, many students were dancing and many parents were standing off to the side. The music was VERY loud and very vulgar – 80 percent of what they played while I was there was a hip-hop style of music with explicit lyrics. Here is just some of what I heard:
“baby, your so kinky in bed …”
“shake that ass girl …”
“they say I’m really sexy, the boys they wanna sex me …”
“you make me wet every time you touch me …”
“I gotta have you naked by the end of this song …”
There IS worse (I looked up the lyrics) but they are not appropriate for public viewing. Some of the songs had foul words omitted, others did not. I heard the ‘F’ word, the ‘N’ word the ‘Sh’ word and not just “suggestive lyrics” but downright deliberately sexual lyrics. Unfortunately, that’s not the worst of it. I observed some of the students “dancing” by rubbing around their bodies up and down on each other in a very sexual manner. The principal was really doing his best to pull kids off of one another and he even suspended a repeat offender. A few of the songs that were especially vulgar were pulled, but not all of them.
I heard one chaperone say, “Well, this is what the kids like, what are you going to do?”
What I will do is write this letter. I’m going to let every parent, the Morgan Hill City Council, and Morgan Hill School Board members know what I saw. I’m going to challenge the principal to make sure this never happens again. There are plenty of respectable DJ’s out there who wouldn’t bring this garbage to kids who are as young as 12!
There is plenty of hot dance music that is not disgusting. When I send my student to a school function I am expecting him to be monitored physically, and that includes what enters his ears. The school should follow the same rules the students are expected to follow. By playing this music at a school function, they have shown a disregard for their own policies.
So parents, don’t just blindly send your student off to the next school dance, go see for yourself. (And if you think it’s just Britton, I have heard that our high school dances are actually worse than this!)
Catherine C., Morgan Hill
