Girls from Gilbert W. McNeal Elementary School get the princess treatment.
By
Andrew Atkins
| 8:50 a.m. February 6, 2019
East County
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Susan Meyers, president of the Gilbert W. McNeal Elementary School Parent Teacher Organization, did a nice job summing up the annual Sweetheart Dance.
Meyers said the Feb. 1 event at the school was a chance for the girls to dress up and to be treated like princesses.
About 400 people attended the event. The girls’ sweethearts included their dads, grandfathers, uncles or other important male figure in their lives.
Dan LeClair dances with his preschooler daughter, 5-year-old Lydia, at McNeal Elementary's "Sweetheart Dance."
Chris Dillingham walks into the dance with his daughter, fourth-grader Julia, right, and her friend, Sophia, left.
Adults work to prepare McNeal Elementary for the dance, decorating the entrance with balloons and streamers.
Ron Kennedy gets a donut for his daughter, kindergarten student Taylor, at the beginning of the dance. Early arrivers found themselves in a much shorter line.
Ron Kennedy dances with his daughter, kindergartener Taylor, before she ran off to dance with some of the other kids.
Mark Staddler dances with his daughter, second-grader Laura.
A group of students cluster near the DJ at the Sweetheart Dance.
Some guys in the audience weren't afraid to show their dance moves — much to the amusement of some of the girls.
Students were eager to show the older guys in the crowd that they knew how to dance, too, when the "Cha-Cha Slide" came on.
Kids danced their heart out at McNeal elementary's Sweetheart Dance.
When the "Cha-Cha Slide" said to get low, some students took it very literally.
Reagan, a kindergartner, dances with her father, Josh Moffett, during a slower song.
Approximately 400 people registered to attend the Sweetheart Dance, according to McNeal Elementary PTO President Susan Meyers.
