Beefcake Good, Shakin’ Your Groove Thang Not
With all of the controversy revolving around the belated announcement that McNeil High School administrators have decided to no longer sponsor an annual homecoming dance and the ensuing news coverage and snickering good fun on the interweb, we almost forgot to change our Mavericks muscle calendar from August to September.
The Abercrombie & Fitch-style calendar features members of the football team in poses to make grandma proud. Reportedly during the planning stage, doting parents were fighting and scratching to get their kid’s rippled torso featured.
The same school under pressure from some outspoken parents about dirty dancing at school-sponsored dances publishes the calendar for fundraising purposes. Uh-huh. That’s why we bought it, too. Help out the football team.
On checking the non-photographic and practical part of our calendar, this hallmark of high school experiences was scheduled for October. If the administrators had provided more notice than a few weeks, those students with happy feet – or exuberant sex drives, depends on how you look at it – could have made plans for an off campus function, as they meekly suggest they do next year.
Those 1200 students who attended last year’s homecoming ball instead will have a carnival filled with “wholesome” stuff, like bobbing for apples, dunk tanks with white T-shirts, and vibrating rides -- at least until some concerned parents speak up.
Principal Cindy Doty’s memo to parents can be found here.
Image by Andre Shonken on Flickr
