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Has Eastview gotten a little off beat?

Three years ago, if you asked many students what events here at Eastview they like the most? Many of them will say the school dances. But from two thousand seven on up school dances have seemed to go down in popularity. Much blame the new rules imposed on the dances and some blame the music, but what really is going through kids heads when they think of the school dances? It even got so bad that the recent Neon dances popularity was so low that the school had to cancel the last at school dance of the year. So I went in depth to see what went wrong with the school dances.”The school dances would be more fun if they actually let us dance the way we want to.” Say Eastviews junior Beka Yahya. “And the dances would be more fun if they were in the school gym” Beka explains. This seems to be one of the many concern on many Eastviews students minds. When it comes down to it many schools have the same common problems when trying to produce a successful school dance. The first is money even though we may not see it an Eastview dance can cost a lot of cashand at the same time can generate money. Between DJ’s, decorations, and cleans up the dance can run a pretty high bill. But these aren’t the concerns on many Eastview students minds, what many of them are worried about are the rules that are set in place when having a dance. “I didn’t like it when they started turning on all the lights at the school dances.” Says Michael Gilberts a sophomore here at Eastview. “I just don’t understand why everything changed.” Say Eastview junior Jordan Ghunus. And she’s not the only one, this was a common statement that I heard. Almost all of the upper class men who were here when Doctor Dewey was principal say the change stinks. As we changed in principals so did our dances. It all of a sudden went to lights on, and more teachers came out. “My favorite dances were always the welcome back dance, but lately their popularity has seemed to have gone down.” Remarks Timothy Johnstad at junior here at Eastview. And he’s right the dances students remembered were the one that were the advertised the most, or had some other connection built on them such as dressing up for homecoming.” By far my favorite dances are Sadie’s, homecoming, and prom.” Says sophomore Siri Ware “I just love the themes and dressing up for the dances.” And she also is right almost all of the Eastview girls I talked to said that their favorite dancers were the one that they dressed up, and got ready for. Many agreed that it’s just more fun that way. So after talking to all these people I think I have found a few of the key reasons of why school dances are failing here at Eastview. The first one and one that many students enjoy are the themes. If we let the student body have more say in the schools dance themes or try and come up with more originals themes the popularity for the school dances would increase. Another key in themes and the e dance s that in the end truly gets kids in line at the dances is the advertisement. By flashing around the dances a bit more it would stir up more popularity and have kids at the e dance and having fun. But the major concern on many kids’ minds is the rules put in place at the dances. And the final and biggest concern at the dances rules especially with the teachers and lights. With just a simple adjustment to the light and not having the teachers hover over all of us at all times it would make many students very happy. So the reason school dances are going down at Eastview may be because of the rules and low morale in dances, but here is another look at it. Maybe it’s not the administration that should just change everything just quite yet maybe it us at a student body it’s our fault that school dances are so unpopular we control the popularity because the dances aren’t just for the school there for us the students.