upi.com Wrote:BRIGHTON, Mich., Feb. 17 (UPI) -- Officials at a Michigan school said they canceled a February dance because students refused to promise not to practice a dance style known as "freaking."
Brighton High School administrators said they wanted students to sign a contract promising not to "freak" dance, a form of dancing considered sexually suggestive by officials, but only 64 of the 1,500 students expected to attend the Feb. 6 event agreed to sign the document, WDIV-TV, Detroit, reported Wednesday.
Principal Ken Hamman said he and other officials decided to create the contract after witnessing the "freak" dancing at an October Homecoming dance.
Students said they protested the document and boycotted purchasing dance tickets.
"If I had started dancing that way, then I would have been punished," senior Mark Bellinger said. "But that's what everybody does, dance that way."
Hamman said officials are working with student government to come to a compromise before the prom in May.