US schools in a lather over 'dirty dancing': report

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061017/ts_alt_afp/afplifestyleusschool_061017162752;_ylt=AkOepRYRXA6mEndPHnuu7OCs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3MjBwMWtkBHNlYwM3MTg-

US schools in a lather over 'dirty dancing': report

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LOS ANGELES (AFP) - The dirty dancing of teenagers at school functions and prom nights is reportedly getting educators across the United States hot and bothered.

The teenage dance craze of "freaking" -- where couples rub and grind against each other -- has been branded as simulated sex by school officials and has led to concern across the nation, the Los Angeles Times reported.
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The school's principal, Charles Salter, implored parents to play a leading role in stamping out the craze and said he had even showed a video of the school dance to hundreds of parents.

"The 'dancing' of our youngsters today is one step from events that should be occurring on wedding nights," he wrote in an e-mail to parents.

Shana Kemp, a spokeswoman for the National Association of Secondary School Principals, told the Times the organisation had received an increase in calls seeking advice about how to tackle the craze.
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"It's just par for the course for the changing of the times," she said. "But in some instances, it's taken too far."

[mainegreen]

1. It's called dry-humping and has been around for ages.

Or have these old fuddy-duddies forgetten what they or their friends did when they were young?

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. The assholes can't teach algebra, so they make this an issue instead.

[htuttle]

3. I'm sure Congressman Squeezy McFeelpants will get right on it!

Boom, chicka, bow wow...Boom, chicka, bow wow...

[Stand and Fight]

4. The media must consist of the most closeted people in the world.

I'm nearly 30 and we were doing this back in junior high school. This is not any "craze." It's been going on for decades. I did it myself, and didn't end up having sex for quite some time. This is more bullshit from over-active parents and the media who whips them into frenzy. :eyes:

[Warpy]

5. Old folks were pissed off during the bobby sox era

because kids were dancing too closely, during the 60s when kids started dancing too far apart, during the 70s for dressing like tarts and pimps at disco clubs, in the 80s and 90s for doing gawd knows what at raves, and now because kids are bumping and grinding with each other on the dance floor...

The problem is that old folks did this stuff and then learned better and they espect the young to have learned from their elders' mistakes, instead of being able to make their own.

The young quite rightly tune them out. If they ban dirty dancing at the prom, the prom will be poorly attended and the kids will find other places to dirty dance.

[BootinUp]

6. Whats the big deal (on both sides of the argument)

The school should be able to set rules on dancing and if they are being violated then shut the dance down and send people home. This ain't no political issue, people trying to make it so just want another wedge issue.

edit: 'Course I went to a private school.

[niyad]

7. our children are getting killed in our schools, and THIS is what

these stupid people worry about????

[Vidar]

8. Lord Byron, infamous for incest & numerous affairs, regarded the

waltz as obscene. It may have had something to do with his club foot.