Findlay teen suspended for dancing

[ramanth]

Good for him for going out with his girl.

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?se...rld&id=6808162

FINDLAY, Ohio (KABC) -- It sounds like it came straight from the script of the 1980s film "Footloose."

Seventeen-year-old Tyler Frost of Findlay, Ohio, was suspended by his fundamentalist Baptist school because he went to his girlfriend's prom over the weekend.

Heritage Christian School forbids dancing, rock music, and holding hands.

Officials there had warned the senior that he'd be suspended and banned from participating in graduation ceremonies if he attended the public school dance, but he went anyway.

"Prom itself, I mean I don't see anything wrong with it and I'm not going to change my viewpoints on something just because someone else doesn't like it," he said.

Frost's stepfather agrees, saying the rules shouldn't apply outside of school.
Frost has been suspended for the rest of the year.

His parents say the school told them he can return the week after graduation to take his final exams and receive his diploma.

[lvpets2002]

Well rules are rules.. And since this was a Church School with Beleifss then so be it.. The boy broke the Golden Rule after they warned him not too..

[lizbud]

What's with kids nowadays. First they hold hands then they start
dancing, it's all down hill from there.

[lvpets2002]

Isnt that the truth.. I mean as long as its just holding hands & dancing = should be of no worries.. Also I have never heard of Baptist not dancing & holding hands.. But they warned him not too..

What's with kids nowadays. First they hold hands then they start
dancing, it's all down hill from there.

[lizbud]

Isnt that the truth.. I mean as long as its just holding hands & dancing = should be of no worries.. Also I have never heard of Baptist not dancing & holding hands.. But they warned him not too..

I was just kidding. Seems so mild compared to what kids CAN get
into these days.

[RICHARD]

Reminds me of what my moron sister did while she was in school-she was told not to attend another school's event, my mom had to go the head nun and apologize for the idiot's behavior...THESE DAYS theparents go ape crap when the schools impose their rules.

If he wanted to go out and dance he should not get upset if someone changes the music.

Dance, moron, Dance!

[Twisterdog]

Well, that was the rule when he enrolled in school. He knew it, and chose to break it. The school has to impose consequences for that, if they don't, pretty soon the belief system to school was founded on is going to mean nothing to those kids.

I personally think it's ridiculous, but what I personally think doesn't matter, I'm not attending the school. No matter what a school's rule, they have to enforce it.

I don't think dancing is allowed in the Baptist church. I KNOW it's not in the Assembly of God and Nazarene church, offshoots of the Babtists. When I was growing up, dancing was a BIG sin in our church. Big, big, big. Right up there with playing cards. Whopper sins. Goes without saying, when I got old enough to do so, I quit attending that church.

[Catty1]

Q: Why don't Baptists make love standing up?

A: It might lead to dancing.

[Kfamr]

...What? Why live life if you can't dance.

[lizbud]

Q: Why don't Baptists make love standing up?

A: It might lead to dancing.

LOL Funny.

[ramanth]

Well, reading into some other news sites, it seems if he wanted to attend the event, he had to get a permission slip signed by the principal. The principal signed the slip, the student went, and the school board decided the slip didn't matter and they suspended him.

So even going by the proper channels, he still got burned.

[Marigold2]

This is such an ugly side of religion. Brainwashing is more like it. Either God finds dancing a sin or not and no where is it written in the bible that
I know of. What this church/school is doing is mind control. If the parents had any sense they would tell the church and school to stuff it where the sun don't shine. I can't believe that people still follow this type of belief in 2009. It's shocking like something out of the 1700's.

[DJFyrewolf36]

This is such an ugly side of religion. Brainwashing is more like it. Either God finds dancing a sin or not and no where is it written in the bible that
I know of. What this church/school is doing is mind control. If the parents had any sense they would tell the church and school to stuff it where the sun don't shine. I can't believe that people still follow this type of belief in 2009. It's shocking like something out of the 1700's.

There are mentions of dancing leading to bad things (When Moses was on the mountain the Isrielites built an idol and danced around it is the primary example I thought of) Other than that it is considered sinful if one is dancing to stir up lustful disires out of wedlock but if you are dancing in praise or in a manner that isnt drawing attention to something that is sinful then it is ok. I don't think it was the dancing itself the school had a problem with its the suspected nature of the dancing. Personally I don't think high schoolers should be acting the way they do at some dances but as long as it was supervised as a Christian I don't see the issue.
I tend to be thought of as a very liberal Christian though.

[Marigold2]

My question is if someone is dancing, how do you know what if any lustful thoughts are in their mind? They could be doing a slow waltz and be dreaming of Johnny Depp or a trillion other things. Lustful thoughts happen every 17 or so seconds in the human male. That is the way we are wired, weather you believe God created man so or we came from the apes that's a fact. Dancing is a beautiful form of art, a fun exercise, a healthy way to stay in shape and a fun way to spend a night out. Those that think they can stop lustful thoughts by stopping dancing need to take a science course and join the real world with facts. No disrespect meant here just basic 5 th grade science.

[Alysser]

I saw that on the news and didn't understand why a religion would ban simple things such as this. You might as well say no having fun. This is why I say I believe in religion to an extent. I am Roman Catholic and I do believe that there is a good, heaven and hell but these "restrictions" are ridiculious. Rules are rules..sure but some are meant to be broken. The boy did not nessicarily(sp?) want to be enrolled in this school, his parents could have made him. While, I don't think this is going as far as pure brain-washing yet, it is well on it's way there.