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Dirty-dancing students attending Glace Bay High School, in Nova Scotia, were shut down when Principal Peter Campbell banned future school dances. The problem wasn’t the music, but rather underage drinking, fighting and, as Joe O’Connor writes in the National Post (November 20), “an epidemic of ‘grinding’—of girls in micro-mini-mini skirts and boys dancing right behind them in a sexually aggressive manner—in a mash of pelvic bumping and thrusting that transformed the high school dance floor into a raging ocean of teenage lust. The display shocked even the most battle-hardened of dance chaperones.” The grinding phenomenon is not isolated to Canada; schools in the United States are dealing with similar situations and are going as far as having students sign “behaviour contracts.”
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Old teachers never die, they just grade away.—http://thejokes.co.uk
Earn stay-in-school bucks
Dolling out cash for better grades is one idea being floated by the Toronto District School Board. Financially disadvantaged students would be paid to stay in school and get good grades. “This is not about bribing. This is helping students who have no resources, or very limited resources, to focus on learning,” explained Lloyd McKell, head of a task force consulting with parents and the public. The school board has identified 110 schools that need help because of poverty.
