TRADITION

It has been tradition in the past years at Mt. View to have three girls choice dances and three boys choice dances. This year the tradition has been changed. Now there are TWO boys choice and FOUR girls choice. What changed? Sweethearts. Sweathearts has been changed from boys to girls choice. Not only do the girls have to do most of the asking, but most of the paying. Dances these days can be expensive. There's the day date, the dinner, the pictures, the tickets to the dance and little odds and ends that go in between. The only good reason for them to change this dance is to ensure that all girls have a date. Maybe they don't want the girls left out, who knows? The girls need to work for their dates. Just like the guys have to work up the courage to ask a girl out on a date. It levels off. It has been tradition FOREVER that the guys court the girls and the guys propose to the girls. This long-standing tradition should not change! It is the boys duty to take the girl out and to do the asking and the paying. The school has no right to change this great and ancient tradition. What kind of a punk would?