And by that I mean, how to send the timelessly ILLOGICAL message that dancing is wonderful, so long as you avoid rhythmically moving your body in a way that could be considered sexual.
My alma mater high school just cancelled a formal dance b/c of gyrating moves that my former students were doing YEARS ago, though we would have never dreamed of canceling a dance because of such icky-ness. Were we the coolest teachers in the world that just really appreciated the creative expression of our adolescent students? HELL NO. Back then it was called juking, not “freaking”, and it was totally repulsive. Nast! We certainly asked that they stop.
However, school administrators in my conservative hometown seem to recognize this modern dance evolution as a dangerous prequel to HIGHSCHOOLERS GONE WILD! This is coming from a huge loserprude (me), and I’ll say it again: dancing is inherently sexual, and to say that it’s BAD is to say sexual=BAD, which is BAAADDDD!!!
These administrators should be tickled that so many students would congregate to publicly socialize instead of lurking off into the creepiness of an unsupervised high school weekend and have ACTUAL SEX. Duh!
This example of hormone-phobia makes me feel grateful to have been a part of an urban school that CHERISHED anytime we could get kids to stay on campus and have fun, because it meant they weren’t doing a whole lot of other things that we’d just rather not see high schoolers get into. They will anyways, but by canceling a SUPERVISED Saturday night activity because it’s just too suggestive means that they are ten times more likely to have an UNsupervised weekend evening … gross.
Tomorrow morning I might regret my overly liberal reaction to this story, but hear me now, BHS Administration: they are gonna do it anyways, why not let them dance away their sexual frustration? To be honest, if it were THAT gross, there’s no way in the world they’d be doing it in front of a million teacher and parent chaperones. In weird sweaty dress-up clothes, and poorly fastened floral accessories. Think about it.
