No grinding in Haven as schools ban 'dirty dancing'
By Mary Clarkin The Hutchinson News Jun 11, 2015

HAVEN - Haven High School students will have to toe the line next year at school dances.They must dance face-to-face, according to language approved for the 2015-16 high school student handbook.
'��It'��s not really a problem,'�� Haven High School Principal Marty Nienstedt told the school board Monday night. '��We just had parents who were concerned.'��

School board member Bobbie Rohling was pleased the subject was being addressed. Rohling referred to '��X-rated'�� back-to-front dancing where dancers rub genitalia.

It'��s called '��grinding'�� and has become popular among adults in nightclubs. Now, it seems, students are mimicking the move, where the female dances with her back to the boy in a grinding motion.

�'There'��s too much of that going on at our dances,'�� she said.

Schools across the United States have been addressing grinding for the past 10 years, including some middle schools. High schools in Illinois, Washington and California have passed rules to specify face-to-face dancing.

The same goes for some Kansas schools, including handbooks for:
Inman USD 448: '��Dancing must be face to face.'��
Goddard USD 265'��s Goddard High School: '��All dancing must take place with students facing their dance partner, with appropriate space between the bodies.'��
McPherson USD 418: '��Students dancing together must dance facing one another and there must be space between them. (Face to face and there must be space!) The exception would be a slow dance. However, on a slow dance the hands must stay above the waist level.'�� Students also 'are not to congregate in a tight pack on the dance floor area.'��

Dane Baxa, director of community relations for Goddard USD 265, said the face-to-face requirement dates back about eight years.

'��Really, it'��s been a non-issue the last several years. I don'��t want to say the generation has changed, but it hasn’t been needed to be enforced for a while,'�� Baxa said.

Neither Hutchinson USD 308 nor Buhler USD 313 specifies the kind of dancing permitted or forbidden. Hodgeman County High School in Jetmore does not have the face-to-face rule in its dance guidelines, but it frowns on those who don'��t dance.

'If there is not a majority of students dancing during the evening, the dance will be immediately discontinued,'�� the guidelines state.

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