High school's dances grind to a halt

Concord Monitor ^ | September 21. 2006 | MELANIE ASMAR

[Toby06]

By their mothers who grew up in the 80's emulating Madonna's sluttiness.

And their grandfathers who emulated thet EVIL Elvis and his gyrating hips! That elvis is going to be the death of us all!!

[FreedomCalls]

Didn't this used to be called "the bump and grind" and was a mainstay of stripper's acts?

[ivyleaguebrat]

How this makes me sigh... We went through the same crap in my middle/high school days (which weren't long ago). We didn't respect the no-contact rules then, and I still don't get them today.

All paired dances are sexual to one degree or another, so the father in the article who says otherwise is a class A moron. But if you have a dance where nobody's waist can touch, you'll have a dance no kid wants to go to. There has to be a line somewhere though. I think the simulated doggystyle (with the girl bent over and all that) crosses the line; that doesn't seem like it would even require dexterity for the guy :P.

[Right Wing Assault]

I've seen it. It is vertical lap dancing. It may be 'simulated' for the girl, but not for the guy. Some of them get pretty 'satisfied'.

[SALChamps03]

Isn't it called Pants Off Dance Off?

[blu]

Footloose Flashback. Maybe the kids should just go back to "dirty dancing"!

[PeteB570]

Kinda hard to dance "right" with street rap blasting all night.

My oldest are in public high school and 60% of the school population that goes to the school dances hit the doors early. About an hour of straight street rap and butt grinding is all they can take.

[Kozak]

"We were raised to dance like that," senior Kayla Bisson said.

By her Ho mama.

[mad puppy]

"...the students feel oppressed."

Good grief. Imagine what they'd do it they were allowed to go full-monty.

Tell you one thing...there is no way in h#ll I'd knowingly let any of my 3 daughters bend over at the waste while some kid was grinding on her from the rear. Just because there is music playing doesn't make that "dancing".

[Flash Bazbeaux]

"I'll bet they didn't dance like that in Grovers Corners, NH."

Is that the place that Adam Sandler is from in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town?

[Enchante]

"...this was at a very tony private school where the tuition is on par with ivy league colleges."

Those are some of the worst offenders!! Let's put it this way: I taught for 8 years at an Ivy League university and it seemed like the most degenerate students came disproportionately from those "very tony private" schools.

[EmilyGeiger]

My SIL is a teacher at a high school and chaperones. they had to ban a number of students from this type dancing. The "craze" is for the girls to wear their thongs and pull the back of the dress up just enough for the 'dance'. This is not all fun and innocence, kids will be kids.

[gathersnomoss]

It was called dry humping. Probably still gets the same result.

[SoftballMominVA]

Well, I was shocked when she told me some of the things that came off as "senior pranks" ....one of which involved a prominantly place politician's daughter. She told me pretty much the same thing you did-that these private schools can get pretty raunchy and that the parents excuse this behavior.

[processing please hold]

Parents really need to start acting shocked when their kids do the same things they did.

My daughter taught me the dance, 'PONY' The Bachlor. She taught me. That's a very sensual dance.

[Roberts]

How sad that many of these kids effectively have no parental guidance whatsoever.

[Roberts]

According to Mr. Duval, his daughter simulating oral sex while "dancing" would "look extremely sexual" without actually being so. Amazing.

[Nothometoday]

This is what worries me the most.
Respect at school...respect at home.
Bottom line.

[Chode]

so some young slut humping a guys leg on the gym floor passes for dancing nowdays... is that it???

[Blue Jays]

Hi All-

My opinion is that there is major excitement occuring in their most-intimate-of-areas during this style of dancing. Even if one put a pillow between the dancing kids, they're still teenagers all cranked-up on hormones.

~ Blue Jays ~