Freak Dancing - Too Hot For Highschool

[Cheetah]

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 16, 2006 — A popular high school principal in the wealthy enclave of Aliso Viejo — in California's so-called "O.C." (Orange County) — has put his foot down on "dirty dancing."

Charles Salter has banned all dances until the kids clean up their act, and now parents and schools from California to Connecticut are cheering.

http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=2660251&page=1

"I closed the dance down early," Salter says. " I came into my office, it must have been about midnight, and I knew I had to address this."

In the wee hours of the morning, Salter fired off an e-mail to parents and teachers:

"Why do our girls have to have themselves so exposed? Why do they have to have cleavage displayed so overtly and slits high up their thighs and then allow boys to dance right up against them? … I am not going to allow this to continue to happen. If there is going to be another dance, then you as parents and your children will have to sit down with me to make some huge changes because I cannot and will not have what my staff and I had to deal with today."

What happened next, surprised the principal.

"My parents were sending my e-mail to their friends who were sending it their friends who were sending it to their friends and all of a sudden I was getting e-mails from across the country," Salter recalls.

The principal followed up the e-mail with a video presentation of teens pressing the flesh at the Winter Formal. Parents were shocked.

"It's basically bumping and grinding, touching and holding onto a female's hips, and vice versa; very vulgar," according to Beverly Lee, whose daughter is a junior at Aliso Niguel High School.

While parents and teachers mostly supported the dance moratorium, the students initially balked. With steady diet of music videos featuring sexually expressive dance routines and revealing clothes, the kids don't understand why adults don't understand.

What do you think? Overreaction? Or maybe this should have happened a long time ago? Is it a problem?

 

[Captain Planet]

The Principle should be fired.

 

[puglover]

I don't see anything wrong with this policy. Of course, I don't attend public high school so my opinion is not very educated.

 

[Godwynn]

Those girls need the practice before they meet me on the dance floor in a club.

 

[Masquerouge]

I think I could copy-paste that and have a principal say the same thing regarding the emergence of Rock'n roll in the '50s.

I also think that the parents who are shocked are incredibly bad parents. If you don't even know what your kids are dancing, and if you have never noticed that such shows as "the Grind" are hugely popular, then you have failed as a parent.

 

[Stylesjl]

So a couple of prudes finally work out what teenagers like to do.

It is always fun to teach niave adults that teens don't work the way they think

 

[Bugfatty300]

Its a High School so the faculty can pretty much ban what ever they want to.

In my school simulated sex stuff was banned at dances for obvious reasons. Don't see a problem with that.

I can't stand today's rap/pop culture in general so it may just be me.

 

[Captain Planet]

So some teenaged guys are rubbing their stuff up against the back of a girl - clothed. This stuff is petty compared to what these kids were doing 10 years earlier to eachother.

It really is always a good laugh when we see those responsible and educated adults letting their own ignorance get in the way.

 

[Red Door]

How do they want us to dance, 15 feet apart, and not touching?

 

[skadistic]

How do they want us to dance, 15 feet apart, and not touching?

How about not simulating sex. Its just not dancing. If the moves are akin to a strippers lap dance its not dancing.

 

[Abaddon]

Wheres the vid

 

[puglover]

Wheres the vid

Nice one.

 

[Captain Planet]

"You kids can't have a dance again until you stop having sex. We'll see you 50 years."

 

[Tycoon101]

Yes, that is not dancing, it is public indecency. I feel that the Principal is justified. It's within his jurisdiction, and if he is disliked he will be fired. There is no use for us to complain if there is nothing that you can do.

 

[AL_DA_GREAT]

In my school they have rules about school dances. result: No one goes since they are soo boring. ( they end at 10 o'clock and the principle has invited himself!)

 

[Eukaryote]

The reality is, that's simply how dancing is done. The principal is either unaware of that or is in denial. When your a principal you're not supposed to make rash or uninformed decisons, this principal did. He ought to be suspended without pay or fired. People should not be punished for anothers incapability to do their job.

 

[skadistic]

The reality is, that's simply how dancing is done. .

This not dancing it is dry humping.

 

[Gilder]

It's how you dance these days, you either accept it, or stay years in the past.

 

[Eukaryote]

This not dancing it is dry humping.

Dry humping and dancing are pretty much the same thing yes. But that's how people dance. And nobody can change that overnight. Besides, as long it doesn't get people raped, murdered, assulted, or knocked up, is it really harmful at all. (don't talk about religon because I don't share your belifs)

 

[Eukaryote]

It's how you dance these days, you either accept it, or stay years in the past.

Exactly. It's 2 agansit one now skadistic!