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Their solution: Fight explicit teen dancing with an equal dose of explicitness. Downey and Aliso Niguel are among the first schools to draft "dance contracts," binding agreements that parents and students must sign before a teenager can step onto the dance floor. Administrators say the graphic descriptions in the contracts leave little room for arguments over interpretation and put everyone on notice about appropriate behavior. The Downey contract, for example, specifies "no touching breasts, buttocks or genitals. No straddling each others' legs. Both feet on the floor." Students get two warnings about sexually suggestive behavior before being booted without a...

Foothill High School will have a zero tolerance for "freak dancing" -- a style in which participants grind their hips together in a manner some say simulates sex -- school officials said Wednesday. Those caught "freaking" at school dances will be asked to leave and not allowed to attend future dances, said vice principal Matt Campbell, who handles student activities. "If you're going to simulate a sexual act then no, you're not going to be able to attend a Foothill dance," Campbell said at a meeting held Wednesday evening to address the issue. He said there will be no warnings...

Think of sexually evocative bumping and grinding to bass-heavy hip-hop tunes. Think of lap dancing, standing up. That's "freak dancing," a trend among high schoolers nationwide for more than a half-decade that Seattle Public Schools is now not only taking notice of but trying to stop. Steve Wilson, the Seattle district's chief academic officer, said at a community meeting at Roosevelt High School Tuesday night that the district was setting a new policy after incidents at Roosevelt and other high schools in which parents had written to complain and students had been disciplined for freak dancing. Parents and school administrators...

'Dirty dancing' booted by Oakwood School's letter gives ultimatum to students By Mara Lee e-mail address: mara_lee@coxohio.comDayton Daily News Oakwood High School is going to kick students out of school dances for MTV-style “freaking” or “booty dancing,” which looks like simulated sex acts on the dance floor.Last week, Oakwood High School Principal Joe Boyle warned parents in a letter sent to parents: "We firmly believe Oakwood High School should not provide the forum for such obscene and degrading behavior."Administrators around the Miami Valley agree.Trotwood-Madison High School Assistant Principal Imani Zaire said, "A lot of kids have no shame. They're not...