At first, Natalie Richard thought her daughter just misunderstood, but after speaking with the teachers, she realized the insane rule was very real.
Fox 13 NewsNatalie Richard , the interested parent who attempted to modify the rule .
Parents in Weber County , Utah , arefiringback at an elementary schoolhouse after the principal told female students that they ca n’t say no when asked to dance .
Natalie Richard first raise questions when her 6th - grade girl come home and said she was assure that she could n’t say “ no ” if a boy require her to trip the light fantastic toe at the Valentine ’s Day dance .
Fox 13 NewsNatalie Richard, the concerned parent who attempted to change the rule.
At first , Richard assumed her girl had heard something wrong .
“ Oh no , no dear , ” she say . “ You guys are misconstrue again . That ’s not how it is . ”
When her daughter insisted that that ’s what she was tell at school , Richard figured she ’d reassert it with her daughter ’s teacher . The teacher ’s answer beyond horrified her .
“ The teacher said she ca n’t , ” Richard said . “ She has to say yes . She has to assume and I said , ‘ Excuse me . ' ”
Furious , Richard then took her concerns to the principal , whose response was the same .
“ He basically just said they ’ve had this dance set up this way for a long meter and they ’ve never had any concern before , ” she allege .
According to an functionary from the Weber County School District , of which the elementary school Kanesville Elementary is a part of , the rule is , in fact , real . However , its design was to promote inclusivity .
“ Please be respectful , be genteel , ” the official , Lane Findlay , state . “ We want to promote benignity , and so we desire you to say yes when someone asks you to dance . ”
Findlay said that prior to the voluntary saltation , student fill out a card with the name of five people that they ’d wish to trip the light fantastic toe with . If there ’s someone they are not comfortable dancing with , they are advance to “ address up ” about it .
“ If there is an issue , if there are scholar that are uncomfortable or have a job with another student , I mean : that ’s certainly something that can be handle with that student and parents , ” Findlay said .
Richard , who was unaware of the normal as it was not presented to parent , disagrees , take that it air the wrong subject matter to the children .
“ Psychologically , my daughter keep coming to me and aver I ca n’t say ‘ no ’ to a boy , ” she said . “ That ’s the substance kids are getting . Sends a unsound subject matter to girls that girl have to say ‘ yes ’ ; mail a bad substance to boy that girls ca n’t say ‘ no . ' ”
Though strides have been made to inform parents of the rule , such as a permit cutting outlining it , there have been no efforts to eliminate the rule .
Next , checker out the school thatcanceled their Halloween parade , also in the name of inclusivity . Then , understand about the school instructor who severalise his kids that“to be white is to be anti-Semite . ”
