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Freak Dancin’ Draws Gig Harbor High Ban

Posted by DFO

Feb. 14, 2007 1:43 p.m. • 0 comments

Issue: ‘Hokey Pokey’ or hanky panky?: Gig Harbor dances suspended after administrators unable to control freak dancin’/Brent Champaco, Tacoma News Tribune

More Info: Gig Harbor High School administrators cut short a campus dance when they couldn’t control freak dancing last weekend and have suspended dances for the rest of the year, at least temporarily. The promiscuous behavior came to a boiling point Saturday at Gig Harbor High’s tolo dance, which the school estimates drew about 700 students. Principal Greg Schellenberg said the sexually suggestive moves started with a few teens, then quickly spread even after administrators warned they would send everybody home. With a sense that he was losing control of the crowd, Schellenberg stopped the tolo about 10 p.m., with more than an hour left.

Question: Did the administration take the appropriate action?

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