No More Dirty Dancing - 2010 Edition

[tyketime]

Damn... Cotton Eyed Joe line dance again?

Another local high school is trying to ban “dirty dancing” at proms. Why? There seems to be problem with a dance in which students cluster in tight groups, preventing adults from seeing what’s going on in the middle.

So what’s going on in the middle?

"The custodial staff were…cleaning bodily fluids off the floor," Susan Nolen, copresident of the Parent Teacher Group and mother of two students at Penncrest High School told the Inquirer.

Well, Patrick Swayze never did that.

Penncrest High School is not the only school pushing for a “cleaner” type of dancing at school-sponsored events. Springfield High School in Delaware County directed the DJ at their May prom not to play hip-hop or R&B music, so as to discourage students from sexually suggestive dancing.

In response to the messy “amoeba” (as students like to call the huddle dance), Penncrest principal Rick Gregg let parents know that students weren’t leaving room for the Holy Ghost at school dances. Gregg immediately got parental support last spring for a student “dance contract,” reports the Inquirer.

"There would be a tight cluster of students . . . and in the center we had no idea what was going on," Nolen told the Inquirer. "Clearly, there was inappropriate touching; that was obvious during the cleanup of the dances."

[By the way - I added bold for emphasis]

[Sun Tzu]

What the hell is wrong with kids nowadays?

/oldmanvoice

[Pumpy Tudors]

They weren't leaving room for the Holy Ghost at the dances? So maybe they should stand a little farther apart? But would the Holy Ghost even WANT to be in the middle of that dance? So many questions.

[tyketime]

Originally Posted by Sun Tzu

What the hell is wrong with kids nowadays?

/oldmanvoice

I'm more jealous - why didn't we think of that way back when?