Don't sweat it, alreadygone. If you're not chaperoning, who is? Teachers? Any parents you and your child know?
My children, who went to parochial school, went to school dances beginning in grade 7, which would be around 13 years old. I was a Witness mom and their dad is Catholic. They could only attend on condition that I would be one of the chaperones. I, too, had a camera handy, so I could cruise the parish hall from time to time under pretence (sp?) of snapping photos of my kids and their friends (which I did -- but the camera was a good prop for snooping as well). The only dance I did NOT chaperone was the final Graduation Dance. By then, both they and I had confidence they would behave appropriately while having a Last Blast with their grammar school friends.
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