Putting the Kibosh on Dirty Dancing at School Dances … by Canceling Them

Ah, punishment, a word that brings up anecdotes, questions, and discussions on equity. It also, of course, leads to discussions on what might have caused bad behavior in the first place, as evidenced by a recent story out of Plaistow, New Hampshire, where Dirty Dancing became more than a film title and the entire student body was penalized for the actions of a few.

From WMUR:

A New Hampshire high school has canceled two dances over concerns that student dance moves are becoming too sexually suggestive.

Officials at Timberlane Regional High School in Plaistow say the spirit week and homecoming dances have been canceled. Principal Donald Woodworth tells The Eagle-Tribune that last year chaperones become uncomfortable when students started “grinding,” a form of dirty dancing…

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Facebook Update Has Middle Schooler in Hot Water

Screenshot of Mother and Daughter in bin Laden Facebook Brouhaha

The concept of parents complaining about their children being disciplined at school has been of increasing concern over the past decade or so.  Whether it’s moms freaking out about a kid’s mouth being taped shut, taking issue with a double entendre-loaded exam,  or even the slippery slope of how to handle a kid who’s outed his school secretary as a porn star, educational institutions are having to contend with some interesting stuff.

This might just be the topper.

Yup, it seems that a 13-year-old kid received a five-day suspension after recently posting on Facebook that she “wished Osama bin Laden killed her math teacher”, and her …

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Mom’s Mad That Teacher Taped Teen Daughter’s Mouth Shut

Photo of Girl With Mouth Duct-Taped Shut

I always rolled my eyes when my mother started the, “Back when I was a kid …” spiel.  You know what I mean, right?  “I had to walk two miles to school in snowstorms.  Uphill.”  “I had to eat everything that was put in front of me.”  “If I got anything less than an A on my report, my father would have killed me.”

The subject of school brought on a whole new list of woes from my mother.  Evidently if you were really bad, you got hit with a ruler by the teacher or, for especially bad offenses, the wooden paddle in the principal’s office.  My mother avoided these tidbits of corporal punishment doled out in loco parentis because she was a “good child”.

I was not.

By the time I was in school, the ruler and the paddle had given way …

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Victoria’s Secret Angel Could Be Fired Over Her “Too-Thin” Frame

Candice Swanepoel, the South African Angel — featured on the left from a runway a while back and on the right (sandwiched between Adriana Lima and Alessandra Ambrosio) from a current Victoria’s Secret  swimwear launch – caused concern this past week because of her much-thinner physique. Perhaps more importantly for Swanepoel, this dramatic change could result in the loss of her Angel wings. According to a Victoria’s Secret “insider”:

Like all Angels, Swanepoel, 22, is expected to be “healthy and muscular. There is a really clear criteria for both Angels and the catalogue. Their career path is Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue then to Angel, it’s the highest paying contract there is, period. The image is about being voluptuous, it’s not fat, but it’s curvy. But if you start to look skinny and ‘editorial print-like’ like fashion mag models, like undernourished, it gives the image the company does not want. Their shopper is older, their target is the Macy’s shopper. These are …

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