I am a teacher that chaperoned my school's 8th grade prom. The DJ that we had played mostly slow songs that the students could not dance to. At no point in time did he look up at the crowd to see that the kids were just standing there, not dancing. He also played multiple songs multiple times. When students went up to him to request songs, he told them no. After we heard a 3rd song played a second time, one of the teachers approached him to ask if he could play the songs that the students were requesting. He told her that he was. He then continued to play outdated songs that were not upbeat enough for the kids to dance to. Another teacher then approached him to request songs that the kids wanted to hear. He then told that teacher that he refused to play certain songs because he didn't think the message of the song was appropriate for children to listen to. (Meanwhile he had previously played the uncensored version of Cake by the Ocean, Swalla, and It Wasn't Me). After a 5th song was played for the 2nd time, an administrator had gone up to talk to him. We come to find out that he actually did not have a large catalog of songs to even play, which was why he was playing outdated songs multiple times. He didn't have internet access to download more songs, which was why he wasn't playing the kids' requests. He did not bother to ask the venue for their WiFi password, and after we had gone to get it for him, he could not connect after multiple attempts. With a half hour of prom left, he ended up using a teacher's phone as a hot spot to download more songs. He still argued with us about playing certain songs because he didn't agree with the song's content, even though we as the adult chaperones had said it was fine. When the last song of the night came on, he didn't announce that it was the last song until it was almost over (talking over the music), and as soon as it ended, he didn't say anything and just started packing up. The kids had no idea that the prom was even over. While the kids tried to have a good time, there was a good hour and a half when they were incredibly bored and upset that the music was so poor. It was really only that last half hour when the DJ had used our teacher's phone as a hot spot to download more music that all the kids were on the dance floor with each other. read more