For the second straight year, the winter dance has been canceled. There are many reasons this dance is unpopular, but there is one glaring issue that needs to be understood. It is not fun.

Student council reported only 25 ticket sales and only two chaperons as of Tuesday, Feb. 14. Both low numbers were the reasons the dance was canceled.

One of the activities students enjoy leading up to a dance is taking pictures with their dates and their friends. But when Mother Nature decides to cook up a 20 degree, windy snowstorm in the middle of February, taking pictures under a gazebo or on the lake is not ideal.
However, the timeliness and weather are not the only problems that this dance faces. A dance between homecoming and prom is just not necessary for the upperclassmen. Also, there are definitely not enough underclassmen who want to participate in the dance to make it worth it.

A dance can get very costly. Many girls, if they decide to go, have to trade dresses with their friends so that they do not have to go buy a new one. And as a male, do you think I’m about to order a $30 corsage, purchase two $10 tickets, and buy myself an outfit for a dance that none of my friends attend? Of course not, it just doesn’t make sense.

Cheaper alternatives for teenagers include bowling, roller skating, going to the movies, dinner and an ice cream and putt putt date.
Girls ask guys, guys ask girls, it doesn’t make a difference. Some people may have been confused this year because of the name change from “Sadies” to “Snowcoming,” but regardless of who is doing the asking, nobody is going. Ticket sales will falter regardless of the gender expected to do the proposing.

The bottom line is that a school dance is a social event. And social events, with none of your friends, are just not social.