Kicked off team for racy dance. Yes or No?

The punishment is too harsh.

Never having children for fear of having a daughter crew....checking in.

School officials have to be among the dumbest people in the world.

Les Myles wrote:

Was the punishment too harsh?

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/world-of-sport/athletics-team-hopes-unbeaten-season-hit-suspensions-sexy-200949411.html#

Why in the world would they get kicked off the team for that?

The video does suggest that this was shot during school, on school grounds, and I guess that kind of makes a difference?

They were suspended from school by administration, along with 30 other students in the video, and their suspension happened to coincide with a track meet. Not the same as being "kicked off the team"

i dont have much of an opinion on the punishment, just an observation.

what YOU might think is acceptable and what ANOTHER might think are often different. just as someone here may think the "officials are dumb," you can bet those officials are saying the same thing about this.

we seem to spend a lot of time teaching kids we all need to accept oneanother and be "tolerant" ... then they get to the real world, away from teachers and the fantasy land of high school/college and find people dont actually believe that. they may say they do, but they exercise judgment. they way the other sees things is often different than how you (or i) may.

a person may go through life thinking what others think does not matter and yet it does. others often have the power to exercise control over you or impact YOUR life.

i dont think it would have been too hard to predict someone might find it offensive and take action. putting aside for the moment whether it was or was not, it was foolish not to understand that someone may find it offense and act.

i think the moral of the story is "think before you act and ask how might this impact me."

my 2 cents and ymmv.

Didn't we learn anything from Dirty Dancing? Nobody puts baby in a corner.

I kept reading "twerking" as "twerping" ... anybody else do the same thing?

This is an undefeated T&F team? I'm assuming the men were the runners. Those girls are not athletes or dancers, just saying.

School rules often teach kids to do the exact opposite of what they need to do to be successful. No one becomes successful by worrying about hurting someone's delicate feelings constantly. Yet schools strive to pump out graduates who are afraid to do anything that some random person might not like. We should teach kids to toughen up and not take things personally instead of teaching them to never do anything out of the norm for fear that some delicate princess might get upset.

Bleu wrote:

This is an undefeated T&F team? I'm assuming the men were the runners. Those girls are not athletes or dancers, just saying.

I was thinking the same thing.

I can't believe they're getting away with calling it "sexual harassment" simply because it was sexual in nature.

Who made these puritan school officials the morality police? Drugs, alcohol, hazing I can get behind, but 'sexy dancing?'

I wonder if this school has a dance team. My high school dance team did stuff a lot more provocative than that during performances.

Ho Hum wrote:

Didn't we learn anything from Dirty Dancing? Nobody puts baby in a corner.

Obviously never seen Footloose either!

Appearing in a twerk video should have been punishment enough.

"Racy"? Is that you, grandma?

the irony is they were probably suspended by administrators who were part of the sexual revolution in the 60s/70s.

Okay girls, now who can touch their elbows together behind their back? There have always been teenaged boys with inventive ways of checking out female anatomy, but not soundtracks and video cameras. Just memories. Girls, leave something to the imagination for these young men and you may perhaps seem more alluring. Now you get to practice on your own for 30 days , make the most of it.

I'm sincerely confused-- what is it exactly we were seeing there? This was a "dance?"

With each passing year, truly do I understand pop culture less and less.