Hmm. Maybe? I honestly don't remember why we did it. I was a new student that year so it wasn't something I was familiar with and I don't think we did it after 6th grade
we did like a week or two of dancing a year was a different style of dance every day line was one of them
Yes in Lynchburg, VA. Or was it square dancing? I can't remember, I just know it was fucking stupid as shit.
Opposites attract, Paula Abdul Jump, Kriss Kross Edit we also had Go Texan day during the rodeo where everyone learned how to square dance and cotton eyed Joe but those are the songs we hit hard in PE.
Rural upstate NY elementary school in the mid 1980's. Yes we did. Do-si-do, Promenade.... All the classics. The joke we all would sing as 5th graders, acting like we'd invented it, was "Swing your partner round and round, put her in the toilet and flush her down."
Where did you grow up? This definitely wasn't a thing in west Texas where I grew up. But maybe it's just because I was an athlete and wasn't in PE like the nerds
Yes, but it was in middle school when kids were going through puberty. A lot of sweaty palms while learning the waltz.
No, but I went to a Southern Baptist school through 8th grade, so dancing of any kind was likely considered a sin.
Fort Worth I was in 4th grade I think so there were no school sponsored team sports for me to ball out. I had to do that with the optimist club.
No, of course not. Sometimes I think about how insane it was that I was hanging onto a rope with one hand at the top of the gym touching the ceiling with my other hand, at like 13 years old. What the fuck were they thinking.
Tuesday and Thursday were “aerobics” days in elementary school. Among songs I can still sing all the words to because we listened to the Everytime are these two gems.
Had a whole semester of practicing square dancing culminating in some Gold Rush day where our parents were forced to pretend to enjoy our prancing around. This was mid 90s in Socal/South Bay. Vividly remember it cuz the girl I was forced to dance with smelled like fish
And for the record the dancing was only in elementary school. We played sports and did cardio stuff in middle school and high school. I was a mean handball player.
I went to Catholic school so no, they did not teach the devil's activities like dancing or modern music.
No. PE for us consisted of a teacher who was clearly checked out just sitting in the shade while we did whatever we wanted.
We had two rival schools from across the country come over for a friendly (but dangerous!) competition. In the weeks leading up to our joint Yule Ball we had to wear our formal robes and learn, because the Yule Ball is first and foremost, a dance.
Ohio: did square dancing for like a month every year. Also did Tinikling: . As expected, this just evolved into trying to slam people’s ankles with bamboo sticks.
Bad news on square dancing: https://qz.com/1153516/americas-wholesome-square-dancing-tradition-is-a-tool-of-white-supremacy/
Now that I think about it, it’s kinda weird that dancing isn’t a bigger part of early childhood physical education.
Well yeah they've migrated over the years. It's like they saw a better way of life and fried chicken and said fuck it I'm in. And didn't do line dancing but did do international dances. Can do the Mexican hat dance and Tarantella. Maybe the Virginia reel. But no boot scootin' boogie.