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Get your freak off. (Schools).


Whatever you call it--freak dancing, grinding, rub-a-dub, booty dancing, the nasty--more and more students are blowing off the motto "dance face-to-face and leave some space."

New sexually charged moves, often blamed on MTV MTV
 in full Music Television

U.S. cable television network, established in 1980 to present videos of musicians and singers performing new rock music. MTV won a wide following among rock-music fans worldwide and greatly affected the popular-music business.
, are spreading from cities to suburbs and leading schools to turn up the lights, put more chaperones on patrol, or cancel dances altogether.

To save the dances, students are pitching ideas to try to cool the controversy and make things a little less freaky freak·y  
adj. freak·i·er, freak·i·est
1. Strange or unusual; freakish.

2. Slang Frightening.



freak
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* Students at Gabriel Richard High School This article is about Gabriel Richard Catholic High School in Riverview, Michigan. For Father Gabriel Richard High School in Ann Arbor, Michigan, see Father Gabriel Richard High School.  in Riverview, Michigan, proposed a quiz on dance-floor conduct that must be passed to get into dances.

* A senior at Dimond High School Coordinates:  A.J. Dimond High School is a public high school in Anchorage in the U.S. state of Alaska. Named for former Congressional delegate Anthony J. Dimond, it opened in 1967 and was the third high school in Anchorage.  in Anchorage, Alaska, initiated swing and salsa lessons when classmates said freak dancing was the only style they knew.

* Norristown (Pennsylvania) High School students helped write rules covering all the sexually suggestive bases: no fondling, no straddling, and no lying down.
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Title Annotation:dance
Publication:New York Times Upfront
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Sep 3, 2001
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