Monday, February 2, 2009

Be healthy, be a stripper

Let's see, what are my high school classes for this year? Algebra I? Check. Spanish II? Check. Biology? Check. American Government? Check. Pole dancing? Um... check?
Seems like the lovely folks in the UK (at South Devon College) decided to really get kids interested in the Be Healthy Week activities this year. So they hired a stripper. I never had any strippers at my school... well except the occasional drunk cheerleader. The stripper came to school and gave a "demonstration" in the public campus area. Now I am assuming that she just demonstrated how to dance and did not actually do any stripping. I can't be sure though. The dancer, one Sam Remmer, was allegedly a bonafide dance student at The Art of Dance (who just happened to have a huge rack....)
Apparently the students ages 14-19 enjoyed Sam's "demonstration". When she returned later in the week to perform I mean "demonstrate" the second time they moved her into a much more secluded area. As was to be expected there had been complaints after her first "demonstration," but not the kind of complaints you would expect. The complaints were that the demonstration had been a little disruptive to the learning process because of the swapping of pictures and videos afterwards.
Now who would have thought that bringing a stripper to school would cause such a commotion? I know I certainly wouldn't. I mean after all, it's all in the name of trying to get kids to be active. You know... move more. And Sam is trying to educate people about pole dancing. She wants to get rid of the stereotypes about strippers. They're dancers after all. There is nothing dirty about what they do. Well, shame on me for thinking otherwise.

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