As a school teacher myself, I find that video depressing if true. School should be a forum for neither sexuality nor violence. There's enough of that shit out on the streets already.

Excuse me while I go get a vasectomy.

Implying that you will sleep with the interviewer also helps
 

I think it's hard to claim that school and sexuality should be separate because the latter is part of inseparable human nature. However, there are healthy and unhealthy ways to let people express it. When people of authority are involved, the long term result is never good. People in the military get canned or arrested for fraternization with people under their command or authority.
If the girls were stripping for their boyfriends or the boys in their class, no one would give a damn.

Indeed. There's nothing easier than being a minority in academia.

Violence is part of human nature as well. If this were a 'sanctioned' battle royale I'd be equally disgusted. Bottom line is that kind of thing should not be happening on school grounds at all, but especially not with teacher corroboration. It's an institution of learning, not their friend's basement. Like these kids don't have enough free time to do that off school grounds anyway. If I had a kid in that school they'd be out and I'd be demanding the involved teacher's removal. But then again maybe I'm just too old fasioned for my own good.

I haven't disagreed with you on any particular point about how appropriate something like that is. Any teacher or any person of authority should be thrown out on their ass for sanctioning that. I go to school to confront my ignorance. I go to clubs or wear a skirt when I want to feel pretty. Stripping for a teacher has so many professional and ethical implications that it's not a healthy way to express sexuality.

Mannix your concerns are valid, but it's not like these kids go to school everyday and use class time to strip for their teachers. This is a once a year tradition. Instinct tells me that these are probably all seniors, and that the strip tease, in a way, acts as an affirming, coming-of-age ritual. This is one of those invented rituals which speaks to the current social discourse about age and sexuallity. A strip tease is not something for 'girls' to perform, only something for women. Therefore, it is not surprising that 1. the male teachers allowed it to occur and 2. the young women wanted to perform in it. Male teachers would not watch or allow 'girls' to strip in front of them. Obviously, then, the ritual is a modern initiation rite from being a girl to entering womanhood. It's a celebration of an awakened sexuallity--of their new found stage of adulthood.

Of course, no one looks at the reasons WHY strange things like this happen, they are just terrified by it. But something like this doesn't happen unless it makes sense for it to happen.

Aren't there some guys on stage as well anyway?

They're celebrating their womanhood, too. It's Denmark, remember.

fine. have the 'ritual' off school property after graduation (i'm assuming this was at the senior party, a lot of places have them before the graduation ceremony). Hell, teachers can get in hot water for having a legal relationship with an adult former student totally off campus because it presents a conflict of interest: namely educating an impressionable young mind or getting some trim. Coming of age rituals, dubious or otherwise, should remain off campus; especially if they intail quasi-illicit activity. A lot of the seniors at my highschool have their 'coming of age ritual' up in the hills outside town and get freakish drunk. Try something like that on school ground with teachers holding kids up for keg stands and you're looking at a night in jail for the kids and never being able to work as a teacher again for the adults.

and just as a side note, modern coming of age rituals are retarded. proving that you're an adult should require more than being able to display the hand eye coordination needed to drop your pants or open a beer.

Anyone care to e-mail me that video? I dont have internet form home and i have to get on here from the public library and cant watch it there for obvious reasons.

they remove that clips from many sites :)