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SALT LAKE CITY — The apparent bad behavior of dozens of Layton High students ruined a dance for the other 300 attendees.
Their principal, Ryck Astle, said they wouldn’t stop forming mosh pits.
“They’re out there jumping up and down and bumping into kids,” Astle said. “We didn’t want someone to get hit or fall down. So we just thought it was best, at that point, to end it,” 35 minutes early.
Astle said adults at the dance – even the DJ – warned them several times to stop moshing.
Some students said they were just trying to fit onto the Salt Lake City Public Library’s cramped dance floor.
A few complained they waited in the cold for their rides after the dance ended. Most waited in nearby stores.
Astle said he understands the students who behaved are upset.
“This is unfortunate,” he said. “We have great kids who got excited and a little too rough.”
No one was hurt, and Astle doesn’t expect discipline for anyone. He hopes that everyone can learn from the experience so it doesn’t happen again.