When Life Imitates an Early Kevin Bacon Film

Public schools in Argyle, Texas, a suburb of Dallas, recently banned "freak-dancing" and instituted a strict dress code at the behest of 35 year-old Superintendent Jason Ceyanes. What would otherwise be a non-news story has grown into a clusterf**k after Mr. Ceyanes's decision has prompted furious debate among parents in the town. Some parents find freak-dancing "dadgum nasty," easily the best quote I have ever seen in the WSJ. On the other side are parents who claim that they have "good kids" and have opted to protest Ceyanes' decision by going online and posting all kinds of crazy, personal info on Ceyanes, including talking smack about his divorce, teenage fatherhood, and claiming that he spends way too much time thinking about the sanctity of teenage girls.

Is suggestive dancing dangerous? And don't these parents have lives and jobs?