Thou Shalt Not Dance

I must have missed that commandment:

An Ohio teenager says he expects to be suspended from a Christian school for attending a public school prom with his girlfriend.

Officials at Heritage Christian School in Findlay had warned 17-year-old Tyler Frost that he would be suspended and prohibited from attending graduation if he went to the Saturday dance. The fundamentalist Baptist school in northwest Ohio forbids dancing, rock music and hand holding.

Frost says he went to the dance because he wanted to experience the prom and didn't think it was wrong.

School officials say he could complete his final exams separately to receive a diploma.

Frost's stepfather says the rules shouldn't apply outside of school and he may take legal action if Frost is suspended.

Although schools are fully justified in setting behavior standards for students in their schools, I think they may be on thin ice in punishing this kid for attending an event at another school. It would be one thing if he was doing something that violated the law, but violating their prohibitions against attending a dance is questionably enforceable.