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Posted by: Ami Angelowicz Filed in: news
3:30PM, Wednesday February 17th 2010
Apparently, school dances have progressed from the days when the girls stood at one side of the gym and the boys stood on the other. Nope, today’s horny little teenagers are freaking and grinding and doing whatever they can at school dances to rub their privates together. How do I know about this problem? Well, I used to be a high school teacher, which meant I was also required to chaperone at least two school dances per year. I taught at an all-girls Catholic school, meaning that freaking was strictly forbidden. The worst part was that as a chaperone I was required to wear a T-shirt that said in big, black block lettering, “NO FREAKING ALLOWED,†and carry a flashlight to shine on teens getting down on the dance floor. This was extremely uncomfortable for me because: A) I’m actually not terribly anti-freaking as long as there is no nudity, harassment, or actual sex; B) I so didn’t want an image of my students getting jiggy on the dance floor burned into my memory; and C) since I looked so young at the time, in the dark most of the boys thought I was a teenage girl attending the dance stag. Once a young dude even grabbed me and started freaking with me when I shined the light on his gyrating pelvis. My female students just stood around chanting my name. Awkward and mortifying.
But it looks like other high schools are cracking down on bumping and grinding, too. And they’re getting pretty creative.
- At Pacific Hills High School in West Hollywood, they like to threaten their students with bad music if the freaking gets out of control. If anyone is caught grinding, it’s lights up and Burt Bacharach for the rest of the night.
- At Nathan Hale High in Seattle, all dances were postponed indefinitely after grinding got out of control. In order to have their semi-formal, students will have to sign a dance contract geared toward eliminating “lewd contact†before they can attend. At the dance, they’ll get their wrist band cut off after one grinding offense and will be asked to leave after the second.
- After condoms were found on the dance floors at nearby schools, the principal at Aliso Niguel High School in Aliso Viejo, California, is making all attendees of the winter formal sign a dance contract that specifically forbids grinding, garters, lingerie, or other exposed excessively short skirts and the removal of shirts.
- There are no contracts to be signed at Minnetonka High School in Minnesota. The school’s principal launched the “Dance Like Grandma’s Watchin’†campaign to discourage the dirty dance moves.
- When the Salina Public Schools in Salina, Kansas banned suggestive dancing, students decided to fight for their right to party. They boycotted their schools’ homecoming dances and organized their own event where more than 400 students who were ready to freak attended. [MSN]
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hlnbabe
wrote on February 17 2010 @ 03:37 pm: [report]
my sister’s a teacher. her students’ dancing is disgusting and i appreciate the “burned into memory†comment. the girls literally got on all fours while the boys repeatedly pummeled their bums. gag…
bumbler
wrote on February 17 2010 @ 03:40 pm: [report]
Back in my day we danced like this:
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOK6oQ75RafcEm3ELonVWXcyU6V_8gpt1vdIyffvUxaCLfnB1iD0eRFqT5nzoG9SYzLLn19tgxuJ31Vd2peYzafnDDg6ljLWZ331Aicq3dvxdosn_sRXM2QyjoEKH9B2MWO5lNpRdzmOQV/s320/NapoleonDynamite3a.jpg
and walked to school uphill, both ways, in the snow, with no shoes.
nikkiwikki
wrote on February 17 2010 @ 03:44 pm: [report]
My senior year of high school all of the dances almost got cancelled! If we wanted to go to prom, we had to sign this crazy contract that was two or three pages long.
eurolovex3
wrote on February 17 2010 @ 03:48 pm: [report]
i don’t know what it is about high school students, they seem to dance a lot freakier than college students dancing at bars, i’ve found. maybe they’re just trying to rebel? the girls on all fours is a bit much, but more power to the kids who organized their own dance!
Ms. Looney Lovedove
wrote on February 17 2010 @ 03:49 pm: [report]
I remember at my middle school graduation dance there were two girls grinding on each other while a dozen boys just stood there watching them. I thought it was funny as hell.
Ljski21
wrote on February 17 2010 @ 03:53 pm: [report]
This is not new. The “all fours†comment brought back memories of my junior high dances (circa 1998) where me and my friends would stand in a circle and do that exact thing. Would I do it now? Hell no. But it was innocent and we were 12, with our new, little boobies and booties and we just didn’t know how to showcase them properly yet
Schmetterling
wrote on February 17 2010 @ 03:54 pm: [report]
Wow…I definitely didn’t have problems like that in my high school. I don’t know if that’s an American thing, or a generation thing…I can see ppl in college doing that, but high school seems young.
Ellen501
wrote on February 17 2010 @ 04:07 pm: [report]
Our high school got pretty strict about this my junior year. If you got too “obscene†you were warned once, then promptly booted from the dance. I was never too raunchy though…it’s hard to get your freak on when your Spanish teacher is giving you the death stare and you know you will have to face him Monday morning lol
karmakaze
wrote on February 17 2010 @ 04:07 pm: [report]
I just call it stupidity and desperation that they dance like that at a SCHOOL FUNCTION but whatever. I swear it’s just a contest now as to who can be the sluttiest.
At least that’s what it felt like at my high school. And they always played crappy music so I never danced anyway. Whatever happened to actual dancing and not just looking like a horny moron?
yourService
wrote on February 17 2010 @ 04:08 pm: [report]
I avoided the “freak†dancing stage by promising myself I would only dance for Jesus.
Jigsaw
wrote on February 17 2010 @ 04:10 pm: [report]
“Dance Like Grandma’s Watchinâ€
But what if my Grandma likes to get freaky!!?
spatula
wrote on February 17 2010 @ 04:21 pm: [report]
Hilarious. As you all know, I am from a very small, backwards Southern town. My senior year of high school, a teacher’s wife volunteered to chaperone our Senior Dinner Dance. She was so offended by the dancing that she wrote an editorial in the newspaper about it. So about a month later, at the prom, the seniors dedicated “Back That Ass Up†to the teacher, who of course was chaperoning again, and the whole senior class got on the floor and got down.
It makes me think of Footloose. JUST LET THE DAMN KIDS DANCE.
Midnight
wrote on February 17 2010 @ 04:38 pm: [report]
Most of the dancing at my highschool was pretty much ignored. Teachers were more worried about couples having sex in dark corners rather than a couple of kids getting dirty on the dance floor. Then again it never really got that bad either. Most of us were taught from middle school that at school dances you keep “a bible’s length awayâ€.
unbounded
wrote on February 17 2010 @ 05:51 pm: [report]
Am I the only one for whom middle school dances mostly involved dancing an arms length away from the opposite sex?! If you were really frisky (LOL), a little making out in the corner was about as far as we got.
The only dance we had in high school was the senior prom…or at least that was the only dance I went to.
meredith806
wrote on February 17 2010 @ 05:52 pm: [report]
My high school dances were scary. But grosser than that, in one of my lunch periods some girl was under a table giving her boyfriend oral. Right there. In the #&@$% cafeteria. I will NEVER get that image out of my head. Gag.
tabby
wrote on February 17 2010 @ 06:29 pm: [report]
There was a little bump and grind at my high school, but the DJ wasn’t allowed to play anything too raunchy and thus the dirty dancing was minimal. Plus we were pretty much all rural white kids who couldn’t dance anyway.
I say that as long as no one is being sexually harassed on the dance floor, let them have some fun and expend some energy. I just do not want to have to see it.
Citygirl_smile
wrote on February 17 2010 @ 07:08 pm: [report]
We had to leave room for the Holy Spirit.
soulja brookestuh
wrote on February 17 2010 @ 07:22 pm: [report]
I stopped attending school dances after the 8th grade, so I can’t speak about high school dances. However, middle school dance chaperon’s carried around rulers to make sure students weren’t too close during slow dances.
I think a surefire way to end bumping and grinding is to simply play country music. Just TRY to get freaky while a guy is singing about his dead dog.
Countess Mariska
wrote on February 17 2010 @ 07:25 pm: [report]
^ Citygirl, you can easily get around that by pointing out that the Holy Spirit is intangible and incorporealâ€"and thus doesn’t need room.
AnitaBath
wrote on February 17 2010 @ 07:25 pm: [report]
Dude, I’ve been to dances in high school where there were literally people having sex on the dance floor. After that, everyone had to dance with the lights on and they had to face each other. This was at an academic team club convention, too.
(Beta Club, for titsmagee! Mrs. Hudson was frightening).
Buhri
wrote on February 17 2010 @ 07:26 pm: [report]
Serves the little perverts right. Save the naughty moves for the booze filled after parties.
staciarain
wrote on February 17 2010 @ 07:28 pm: [report]
Aha! I’m still IN high school. Haven’t even hit prom yet. Our dances aren’t bad - there’s some grinding. Well, a lot of grinding. Okay, there’s always a huge clump of sweaty teenagers getting their freak on in the middle of the floor. It’s not that obscene. And the school doesn’t seem to mind as long as we don’t show up drunk.
Me? I love to dance. I know how to let my hips swing, I can shake it like shakira, insert any other lyric-related hip/butt reference here. I love it. But I don’t have sex in the middle of the gym (I do, however, like to laugh at the couples looking hella awkward trying to do so).
rudyc
wrote on February 17 2010 @ 07:42 pm: [report]
@AnitaBath Beta club conventions were freaky! I went to nationals in Nashville expecting to see tons of nerds standing at arms length, but definitely not… I didn’t see any sex on the dance floor though.
AnitaBath
wrote on February 17 2010 @ 07:44 pm: [report]
@rudyrc: Ah! Was it the summer of 2007 at the Opryland Hotel? I was so there. I think I skipped out on that dance because my friends were freaked out by the level of freakiness and sex on the dance floor.
RoyalEagle0408
wrote on February 17 2010 @ 07:59 pm: [report]
When I was in 8th grade, the freshman class got in trouble because the Thong Song had just come out and allegedly girls took their thongs off and were waving them in the air. That banned a WHOLE bunch of songs from my public high school.
Having teachers chaperone kind of made a lot of people too nervous to do anything TOO scandalous.Â
@Ami- “NO FREAKING ALLOWED.â€Â That’s awesome that they called it “freaking†and not “inappropriate dancing†like they always did way back when I was in HS…10 years ago…sigh.
Buhri
wrote on February 17 2010 @ 08:08 pm: [report]
Ha, at one of my proms a girl was literally being fingered in the middle of the dance floor. At another a girls panties were found on the floor.
To quote Rosanne, Preverts!!
Steph9668
wrote on February 17 2010 @ 09:06 pm: [report]
@ Buhri: EWWWW!!!!
It’s been forever since I was in high school but I don’t remember any of this business happening. That being said, I was a huge loser and didn’t hang out with the people that did that kind of stuff so I probably just missed it all. I’m discovering that I was blissfully unaware of anything naughty in grade school and high school.
ishbit
wrote on February 17 2010 @ 09:27 pm: [report]
...Yeah, that’s why I don’t go to dances (I’m still in high school, unfortunately).
I heard that at a recent dance at my school, this guy actually er, “finished†on this girls leg. Barf.
PRican
wrote on February 17 2010 @ 09:54 pm: [report]
Warning - RANT:
Kids are friggin’ STUPID and this whole “I wanna do grown up things when I can’t even take care of myself†junk is making their minds mush.
I like the idea of playing music that they aren’t into in order to give them the “BACK AWAY FROM THE PELVIS†message - most kids are visual/auditory learners due to their smaller attention spans (made smaller by the crap they watch on TV - grab a book, children) so they need something OBVIOUS as opposed to a simple clearing of the throat.
To the kids who put together an “freaking ban†protest…REALLY? They put their minds together, they unite for THAT?! How much did their school donate to the Red Cross to help Haiti? Did they come together THEN?
(Can you tell I don’t like kids much?) UGH!
CaleeKay
wrote on February 17 2010 @ 10:56 pm: [report]
It’s pretty ridiculous that people take it as far as sex and blatant sexual acts at school functions.
My high school bumped and grinded, and there was one dance that got canceled because of some girls who liked to wear their skirts too short, but other then that, all the sex acts were left to be done in the bathrooms and in their cars - out of site. (thank god)
I just think its so dumb that some people feel the need to be little sk*nks and ruin the fun of dressing fancy and dancing with friends..
Guess what those girls have turned out like. Pregnant, playboy wannabes, and nothings.
/shrug.
Heatherer
wrote on February 17 2010 @ 11:34 pm: [report]
The dancing at my senior prom (in 07) was disgusting. Absolutely nothing but hardcore grinding going on. There were even (more than a few) girls who had to hold their skirts the entire time they danced because they were so short and tight that otherwise they would pop out of it.
There were at least a dozen chaperons too, and not a single person cared what was going on.
I think it sucks that my school didn’t even pretend to care about how raunchy these kids were acting. Most of my friends at the time were more on the goofy conservative side, and they all skipped the dances because of how everyone else behaved. If the school cracked down some, I think more people would have bothered to show up and and more of the people there would have had a better time.
Anniushka
wrote on February 17 2010 @ 11:44 pm: [report]
I think it’d be awesome if the dance culture in American high schools were that of dancing, not freaking and grinding. I wonder if it’d work to teach them how to actually danceâ€"like, swing, hustle, salsa, two-step… You can dance those dances to a lot of songs that kids listen to these days, and they’re a good couple steps above grinding.
Then again, actually dancing takes some slight amount of sophistication, which I don’t suppose we can expect high schoolers to have. Oh well. That’s what college is for.
rudyc
wrote on February 18 2010 @ 12:04 am: [report]
@AnitaBath It was either 2006 or 2007, can’t remember. But it was at the Gaylord Opryland and it was weird. That whole convention was just odd.
dia
wrote on February 18 2010 @ 12:32 am: [report]
yup at my old high school a condom was found in the middle of the dance floor the year i left i heard the administrators started to crack down. Its all fun that no body would have payed attention to if there was no attention brought to it.
Times have changed they dont know how to dance otherwise