Lucifer_666
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Pole Dance LessonGawping teenagers watched a busty brunette give a pole dance lesson during their school lunch break.
A packed crowd of around 1,000 teenage students – aged 14 to 19 – saw the saucy display as part of a health drive.
Students videoed the dances on their mobiles.
A row has now erupted at South Devon College in Paignton after the demonstration prompted a wave of complaints from teachers.
The demo – held in a public area of the school – was run by Sam Remmer of pole dancing company The Art of Dance.
The 32-year-old said she was invited as part of the school’s Be Healthy Week.
But returning to the college two days later for the second demonstration she was told to move inside the sports hall and away from the main public area as there had been “a number of complaints”.
She was told staff had complained that after the first performance pupils were more interested in watching their mobile phone footage than they were in their afternoon classes.
Mrs Remmer said: “I was told pupils were distracted from their afternoon lessons because they were swapping pictures and videos.”
Mrs Remmer also said she had agreed to carry out the demo for free – providing she could post videos of the event on the internet for advertising.
However when teachers saw the videos on YouTube they demanded Mrs Remmer took them down.
She said: “The college are trying to distance themselves from the display as much as possible. I was contacted by the vice principal who argued that I should not be making the event public.
"I consented to removing the videos that had students in them as they had not signed any consent forms, but I refused to remove the videos filmed in the sports hall as they did not feature any students or references to the college."
Mrs Remmer said unless people are educated in the differences between modern fitness pole dancing and lap dancing then “negative stereotypes will not go away”.
She said pole dancing is appropriate for young teenagers at school as it is a mix of dance moves and gymnastics and is excellent for fitness.
The college has refused to comment on the issue.
But vice principal Pat Denham did say there was a “pole fitness demonstration but no pole dancing” and the college had received no “official” complaints.
The college has contacted Mrs Remmer and demanded she remove all videos relating to the display from the internet
I wish we got this kind of education when i was at school 
Though the whole scandal is ridiculous in my opinion like its no diferent than gynastics or swimmimg.......us guys ogle the wopmen doing them too but we don't ban them in schools
i am interested in what you Shaz think about this incident considering you are a fan
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Emperor Morphetine
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Political correctness gone mad..after all pole dancing can be considered a form of exercise, so all this 'Be Healthy' promotion is doing is trying to influence exactly which forms of exercise people take!
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Lucifer_666
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personally bud i think its the dirty minded politically correct people who immediately see everything like this in a perverted or sexual way that should be banned
it kind of reminds me of those tests psychiatrist use ..you know the ones where they show the patient cards with obscure pictures and they are asked what do they see in each one.....i get the feeling that these pc people would only ever see bad or erotic things
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Emperor Morphetine
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Too right, those people probably have it on the brain.....
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Catnapper
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The school invited her to perform so surely they must have known what would happen when she performed in front of 1000 students? Some kids would be sure to film her on their mobiles!
If all the students had to perform that routine they'd see there was nothing sleazy about it and that it's very hard work going off all the gymnastic movements she's doing!
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Lucifer_666
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To me its like they want to control how people think or feel...like its not good enough to ban something thats obvious and clearly sexual or perverse they must now also try and ban or censor things that MAY be seen in that way...no matter how innocent they are.... truth be told if that was dancers, swimmers or even a circus act them kids would have had them playing on their mobile phones for varied reasons mainly...the novelty factor,...though i'd say in some cases sexual reasons were there too....but is that wrong? Should we now start banning things because they MAY give unpure thoughts and who judges......who assesses whats unpure and what isn't
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Catnapper
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If she was dressed in a skimpy outfit and performing a provocative sleazy kind of routine that was more suited to a strip club, then I could understand all the fuss.......but she was doing a dance and gymnastic routine aimed at promoting fitness.
The Vice Principal said later on that there had been no official complaints so why was the demonstration moved indoors because of "a number of complaints?" Perhaps if the pole fitness dancer had performed to small groups of kids as part of their PE/fitness lessons instead of performing in front of 1000 kids, then there wouldn't have been any bother?
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Lucifer_666
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it does seem strange about the move inside after apparently no official complaints doesn't it hmmm and as you say i wonder why it wasn't done as a pe lesson instead of a demonstration .....hmm i also ask the question had the head teacher not considered this kind of reaction when he first okayed this...whether it right or wrong it doesn't take a genius to work out that some pc people would be annoyed and it was guaranteed reaction from them really 
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Emperor Morphetine
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It does just beggar belief that the school might not have thought all this through before giving the go-ahead for the demonstration.
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Catnapper
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It's not as though the pole fitness dancer approached the school about performing....they invited her! I'm interested in what the parents thought when they asked the kids what they'd been doing at school and they replied "watching a pole dancer" ....I bet there were a few raised eyebrows
Maybe the school thought they were being trendy and more kids would be interested in pole fitness dancing rather than some ordinary aerobics type of routine?
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