Pole dancer performs for high school’s “Be Healthy” week
The sexy dance demo was an effort to inspire teens to exercise. And it got the kids moving, alright. The students at South Devon College in England, ages 14 to 19, were so busy texting and emailing photos and videos of the stripper-like routine that they couldn’t pay attention to their afternoon classes, their teachers said.
During the lunchtime program earlier this month, about 1,000 students watched Sam Remmer gyrate, grind and glide around a pole. She was dressed in a sports bra, shorts and legwarmers; pole dancers say that if they wear too many clothes, they slide off the pole too easily.
Remmer’s dance set off a huge controversy in Britian after she posted the videos on YouTube recently. School officials have declined to comment, although Remmer says that they told her to take out any references to the school in her videos. Remmer, 32, defends her act, saying that there’s a difference between fitness pole dancing and lap dancing.
Remmer, a professional pole-dancing instructor, told the Daily Express of London that she will not be cowed by the uproar: “If anything, my classes empower women and encourage them to be in control of their bodies.”
Photo by Amber Rhea
If this was going on in my school i would be outraged… Find other ways to get kids to exercise
I think we’re way too sensitive about this kind of things. So she pole danced for 14-19 year olds. Big whoop. There was no nudity, and nothing overly explicit,and frankly pole dancing is a fun and disciplind style of excercise.They’d see alot worse in a pg-13 movie.
I think the real problem being why they were being allowed to e-mail and text in the first place. This is why usually one leaves this kind of thing for the end of the day before they get home. You don’t rile them up and then expect them to be interested in algebra.