[billiefan2000]

Schools crack down on dirty dancing
By Joe Dejka
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER
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Omaha Burke High School senior Taylor Brunmeier has seen students doing it.


Her friend Gigi Wallace, also a senior, has seen it, too.

“It’s happening everywhere,” Wallace said.

The dance style known as grinding — pelvis to pelvis gyrations, typically with the boy behind the girl — has grown popular at high school dances, but several school administrators say it’s indecent.

With homecoming season in full swing at Omaha-area high schools, administrators are employing a variety of tactics aimed at cleaning up dirty dancing.



“Every school needs to stop this,” said Jonna Andersen, principal at St. Albert Catholic School in Council Bluffs, who cracked down for this year’s homecoming dance.

Andersen warned students ahead of time that they must dance face-to-face, and if they didn’t, the music would be stopped.

Letters went home alerting parents to the rules, and administrators enlisted help from the homecoming court to encourage students to abide by them.

School officials were concerned about how students might respond, and planned to stop the dance if they didn’t comply, she said.

But the dance a week ago ended up well-attended, students followed the rules, and they reported having a good time, Andersen said.

“They all danced the correct way,” she said.

Spokeswomen for the Omaha and Millard school districts said they are addressing the matter on a school-by-school basis.

They have not launched districtwide efforts to curb sexually suggestive dancing, as has the Lincoln Public Schools.


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(note: OPS is a little slow when it comes to doing things,

case in point: they have people on the school board who feel they deserve to be their on the board for 3 decades or more and those people are mentally stuck in the 70's

[Happygolucky]

Where will all the Mexicain Kids go now? What will they do if they cannot Salsa Dance?

[billiefan2000]

Originally Posted by Happygolucky

Where will all the Mexicain Kids go now? What will they do if they cannot Salsa Dance?

there are mexican kids at omaha burke high ???

[xo.stevers.xo]

IDK....I guess I feel like they're dragging this out. It's just dancing. To send letters home and be so strict about dancing seems like a waste of paper and time. If high school kids want to be 'indecent', they'll do it whether you let them dance a certain way or not. Thats just my opinion though...

[pheaton]

If they are going to do that stuff they need to take it away from school. There is a way that you should conduct yourself in public for your sake and the sake of those that don't want to watch it.

[tones]

Some of the girls complained about being 'groped' -- this is what the complaint is all about. Obviously the dance is indecent if there are sexual assaults happening on the dance floor.

[jessep28]

This is nothing newsworthy. They had a list of prohibited dance moves when I was in middle school during the late 90's. But I went to one of the two middle schools in the ghetto of Millard so maybe they watched over us a little more closely.

[Michael0603]

I'm young and I have been around this type of dancing countless times. I don't get it. Perhaps because I am terrible dancer, but I still don't get it.

How can these girls be complaining of being groped when their "style" of dance is to allow a boy to come from behind and slam his genitals into her rear repetitively until the kid pops a chub? How would a little groping go beyond some major public humpage?

Silly kids and their hormones...

[Michael0603]

Originally Posted by jessep28

But I went to one of the two middle schools in the ghetto of Millard so maybe they watched over us a little more closely.

Oh, you poor thing. How did you ever make it out alive?

[jessep28]

Originally Posted by Michael0603

Oh, you poor thing. How did you ever make it out alive?

Almost didn't.