Yea maybe something changed in the last 2.5 years but when I was in high school at Muskego no one listened to these rules. People were kissing and making out, all around, just normally in the places teachers don't often patrol. Teens are sacks of raging hormones, trying to stop us from kissing in high school seems like it would be easier to expel most of the people. Sorry parents im sure you dont wanna hear this at all.

I had to read the article almost to the end to find out that PDA meant Public Displays of Affection..... not Personal Data Assistant {the fore-runner of the Smart phone}.

Anyhow, I'd much rather hear of PDAs than the fights - down to Murders - in MPS!

Never really seemed to be a problem for me in high school, for some strange reason.

When I covered West Allis, we did a story on their prom and the grinding issue. The principal told me the key is to have a good DJ. When things had gotten a little too hot and heavy, he'd play a fast/really mood changing song like the chicken dance. After one or two times, the kids got the picture and stopped. I thought it was a really creative solution. I talked with the DJ and he said he gets really offended when the kids basically ruined the evening so he decided to take control of the dance floor so that the parents didn't have to continue being mortified. After writing that story, I quite frankly wanted to ban my daughter from going to all dances until she was 32.
Another story I did portrayed quite the opposite -- same school district -- at West Milwaukee Middle School they held ballroom dancing lessons to a. teach kids to treat the opposite sex with respect b. engage them in a more positive way to interact c. keep 'em busy after school. Was a great program... could really see RUSD doing something like that...

"They allow people to practically fornicate on the dance floor."

Wow! We didn't have any kind special program and most of our dances were pretty much like the one depicted in 'Napoleon Dynamite' (2004)! Then again, I was usually always DJ'ing instead of actually dancing at the dances, so maybe I didn't see what was going on.

Speaking of DJ'ing, here's an interesting but true story.

So, I was DJ'ing this high school dance back in early '99 when I decided to play 'Blue (Da Ba Dee)' by Eiffel 65. I used to do a specialty european electronica mix show on our local fm radio station that aired every Friday night from 9pm to 1am and would receive promo copies of stuff from the European based record companies long before a US label would pick distribution rights here in the states, so this was probably a good 6-7 months before the song premiered on any mainstream commercial radio stations or Mtv. Anyway, I was getting so many complaints from dancers that I had to pull the song before it was even finished.

Fast forward 6 months. I'm back at the same high school DJ'ing another dance with mostly the same kids. By this time, Milwaukee top 40 stations had started playing 'Blue' in heavy rotation. I literally had so many requests for the song that I ended up playing it 3 separate times over the course of the night!

Love the lines from Whitnall Principal Brazouski - way to get the point across without sounding like an old fuddy-duddy!

"In Racine, the district prohibits disruptive, distracting, inappropriate or indecent behavior"...while this may be curbing PDA's in our schools (most find other places/times to engage in it) it sure is not doing anything to curb the filth that comes out of their mouths. Get that under control and I will be impressed. Then again since many teachers talk just as raunchy I guess that won't be happening any time soon.