School bans “dirty dancing” after cleaning bodily fluids off floor after prom
Chris Spags Prom is an exciting time in life, serving as a cathartic close to one chapter of your life and opening another. How exciting and cathartic? One Philadelphia area high school has banned “dirty dancing” due to “inappropriate touching” leading to the janitors having to “[clean] bodily fluids off the floor.”
Penncrest High School had a successful senior prom last month. As evidenced by the aforementioned bodily fluids, the kids had a good time. But the school followed up the event by issuing the first “Dance Contract” to students, which will be required to be signed before beginning school next year.
According to Philly.com:
“There would be a tight cluster of students . . . and in the center we had no idea what was going on,” said Susan Nolen, copresident of the Parent Teacher Group and mother of two students at Penncrest. “Clearly, there was inappropriate touching; that was obvious during the cleanup of the dances.”
Whoa – wait. What?
“The custodial staff were,” Nolen explained, uneasily, “cleaning bodily fluids off the floor.”
In order to go to future Penncrest dances, students must agree to avoid all “grinding, freaking, or any mimicking of sexual acts” in addition to “front-to-back touching” or straddling one another. So, if you’re doing the Electric Slide, you’re still good. Assuming the chant of “It’s electric!” doesn’t make you leak onto the floor like a BP oil spill.
Students are boycotting, organizing their own dances, creating Facebook groups, etc. But not all students in the Philadelphia area are disappointed. A similar contract was instituted at nearby Radnor High, where some students agreed that the dancing was getting a bit out of hand.
“It used to be pretty inappropriate; I’m not going to lie,” Radnor High senior Spencer Holm told Philly.com. “The freshman girls used to be expected to dance a certain way, especially if they were there with an upperclassman, even if they didn’t know him that well.”
Holm also said the girls were doing moves that were similar to those of strippers.
Well, it’s like my parents always told me: It’s all fun and games until someone ejaculates on the floor. It’s on our family crest, right next to a stick figure man looking sad with his shoulders shrugged as if to say, “Hey, what can I do?” We’re a noble people.
So what do you think? Nanny state gone too far? Or a valid request to keep kids from being too sexual at too young of an age?
Dirty-dancing cleanup [Philly.com]
Students Fouling High School Dance Floors with Their “Bodily Fluids” [Gawker]
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