CAL buttophobia + erotophobia

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Friday, March 17, 2006 (SF Chronicle)

BAY AREA/Hip-hop trends spread to suburbia/
Lyrics, dance moves too explicit for some parents, schools

Simone Sebastian, Chronicle Staff Writer
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From X-rated lyrics on the playground to freak dancing at the prom,
hip-hop culture has infiltrated schools at every grade and in every neighborhood.


Northern California suburban schools are increasingly clamping down on the
most controversial elements of the trend, drawing a mixture of applause
and resistance from students and parents.[.....]


Since September, more than a half-dozen suburban Bay Area schools have adopted or started drafting
policies that ban freak dancing
-- grinding in sexually explicit positions,
typically with the girl's back to the boy's front --
from school-sponsored events.
Administrators say the trend is not an assault on hip-hop, but an effort
to traverse the thin line between students' freedom of expression and
their parents' standards of appropriateness.


"It's a bigger deal because it's happening at the schools
where you don't expect to see it,"
[opines] Miguel Fonseca, known as DJ Hightop on the Bay Area school dance circuit.
Fonseca, 36, said he's seen schools take increasingly strict stances on explicit hip-hop dancing styles.
At a recent school dance in rural Amador County, he said,
administrators eliminated from his playlist most songs
that included the word "back" -- slang for a woman's buttocks -- in the title [.....]

Last month, Montgomery High School in Santa Rosa began requiring students and their parents to sign a form prohibiting "intimate touching, sexual squatting or sexual bending" during school dances.
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