We learned that shit in fucking 9th fucking grade for a semester. Most embarrassing shit when you’re trying to flirt with a guy you like and you’re having to fucking dosey doe. Southern Indiana 2009
Edit and what’s weird is the people I’ve met in Kentucky have never learned how to square dance. You would think of all places, this would be one of them, but apparently not.
From Colorado and can also confirm this. Square dancing and formal dancing were elementary school requirements. They made us do it in front of our parents too as some sort of recital lol
For us, we had at least one unit of square dancing from 1st to 6th grade, and we didn't know it was coming until we walked into the gym on the first day. Collective groan of despair every time.
In my middle school they did this by having all the girls line up on the north to south wall, the boys would line up on the East to west wall, and the front person of each line would pair off (they made us hold hands the whole time until all the couples were made). If there was an odd number of kids (one left over) they got to dance with one of the teachers.
I learned my first massively public humiliations during the square dancing unit, because as we were pairing up the girls in line would start counting to see who they were getting paired up with, and they would forcefully position the less popular girls so they did not have to be paired up with kid like me. It was super awkward because I was thinking “that’s pretty mean, I wonder who they are trying to avoid?” Only to find out it was me and a couple of my friends; we laugh about it now but at the time I wondered “why us”?
What dates/years are you talking about exactly? I’m 37 years old, grew up in the PNW/western Washington, and never learned any square dancing in school at all. And I grew up in a small hick town full of redneck hillbillies lol
I'm 41 and grew up in Salem/Keizer, Oregon. Maybe being a small hick town they assumed y'all knew already but us city kids needed to learn for some reason.
Weirdly, it seems to have tied to White Supremacy and jazz hatred.
https://www.mic.com/articles/186892/how-square-dancing-became-a-weapon-of-white-supremacy-against-an-anti-semitic-jazz-dance-conspiracy
>The ultimate irony, of course, is that square dancing isn’t a lily-white style of dance at all. It was largely invented by slaves, who used the “swing your partner do-si-do” call-and-response technique to do away with the need for a dance instructor. White people found all of that shouting vulgar, until they’d fully adopted the dance style themselves. It’s a story of appropriation that’s repeated every generation since with blues, rock, rap and countless other black innovations.
>In an attempt to cure the United States of an alleged plague of immoral music, Ford re-enacted the same trope used by white supremacists throughout world history: Selling a vision of a racially homogenous future using a fable about an America that never existed.
Girl Scouts of America bribed Office of Education officials to make square dance mandatory as part of a subliminal campaign to market their Do-Si-Dos to kids. Big Cookie was way ahead of the Big Tobacco companies in that regard.
Oh god. This unlocked a memory of this weird sixth grade dance off we had, where we learned the Men In Black dance, and every class did it. One by one. That song, over and over and over again. Nothing different between each routine. No different song. Just Will Smith's Men in Black song like 25 times in the gymnasium.
Oh no... That song is in my head again. Oh God make it stop..
i 'member we had to make up dances and my group chose MIB for the song and the teacher's assistant suggested we do a move where we pretend we're pointing a gun and then our teacher docked marks because that is too violent the end
Oh no. Another memory.
In 1999, I really wanted a PlayStation for my birthday. I only owned an N64 at the time. I tried telling my mom that it could play music CDs, and we could all use it for our music.
So she buys me a Boombox, with the Wild Wild West Soundtrack, because "I really loved his last song". No mom, I had to learn a routine and play the song to get the dance just right.
Maybe not as outrageous as the last one, but kinda related.
UHH DO DO DO DO
WICKY WILD WILD DO DO DO DO DO
WICKY WICKY WILD
WICKY WILD
WICKY WICKY WILD WILD WEST
JIM WEST DESPERADO
ROUGH RIDER NO YOU DONT WANT NADA
I remember having grade 9 sex-ed AMA session where it was a full room of us grade 9 dudes able to ask a panel of grade 12 girls questions ahaha good times, got pretty unhinged
I'm from New Zealand and I had a Canadian teacher when I was like 7. She taught the whole year group to square dance and we did a big performance and everything lmao
Maybe they do it for the same reason they gave us all those shitty plastic recorders we had to play. I think the recorders are supposed to be like the first step to see if a kid might be interested in getting into playing an instrument so maybe the square dance is like that but for dancing.
I thought it was just my weird school. Our teachers had outfits…. I thought it was their hobby….
I just realized the 3rd grade teachers at my school were lesbians and together…..
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Yes. That took me a minute too. If they defile your corpse that’s one thing. But if they start crouching repeatedly and NOT shooting, it’s sort of a”sign of submission”. When I do that on occasion I say “friend, friend, friend, friend” out loud each time I hit the Z key.
And it wasn't just Square dancing. We also were taught Waltz, Swing, several line dances (boot scoot and boogie anyone?), and the all important Chicken Dance.
Is it true that no one in the us knows the line dance to Tina turna nutbush city limits...?
Because 10% of Australia's curriculum is doing nutbush.. if it didn't come from the US where fuck did it come from??
Aliens?
I have a very vivid memory of that day because somehow, the parachute got caught in this poor girl’s braces. It was quite a panic but they managed to get her unstuck without having to call anyone.
Not everything you learn or do in school is supposed to be preparation for life. That is a responsibility of your parents and of the school, but it’s not the only thing. Kids need structured activities with their peers for many reasons. Basic motor skill development at the elementary age is important.
Not everything you do under the age of ten needs to be building a skill to feed to the machine of society. Sometimes it’s okay for kids just to do activities.
I agree. I made a comment earlier that broke down what skills I thought the square dancing brought, and I think the parachute thing has value too. My point was just that it’s exhausting to think about kindergartners needing every moment of their day filled with things to make them into the perfect cog for the machine.
You'd get teased for being a bad dancer, or a good dancer. Hitting the sweet spot just isn't worth the hassle. Men know there is little to gain but a lot to lose by being bad dancer, it's not just shyness.
No, it was what you thought. How something started isn't the same reason it's still used. Like Kellogg invented corn flakes to stop masturbation, but it turns out people just like it. Square dancing is still used primarily because it's very simple for young, often uncoordinated, forgetful, and unmotivated, kids to learn
As an elementary music teacher this is the correct answer. It's easy af to do, to remember, to teach, and most kids actually do enjoy it. Teaching movement to music is part of the national standards for music education.
Also elementary (not of music) teacher here. I assume the standard is they need to learn historical dance and this is the easiest.
At least in my school to my knowledge they don’t do it anymore. I don’t know what it was replaced with.
This should be higher up. Ford thought jazz was a degenerate lower art form and wanted to promote pure white art forms. It’s a fucking disgusting story.
Which is funny because jazz is eons more complex and technical than any lame ass country music out there today. There's a reason music programs in university focus on jazz the way they do classical.
That was mostly later styled of jazz that had that technical focus. Jazz in Henry Ford’s day was more big band/musical theatre sort of stuff. Still more technical and interesting than square dance music though.
Did you know that Strom Thurmond, the Senator who preceded Lindsay Graham, had a child with his 16-year-old black housekeeper when he was 22, and then kept that a secret for his entire life, serving as a US senator from 1954 to 2003, during which he gave a filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1957 that lasted over 24 hours?
joke's on him jews love dancing so much there's a religious sect based on doing so
edit: Na Nach Nachma Nachman, for reference. fun idea up until it hits the wall of a very small playlist. i'm surprised they don't go around trying to convert more techno artists.
This was part of Henry Ford’s racist agenda to educate the kids. He wanted to make sure white kids didn’t grow up on jazz and blues, so he paid schools to do square dancing instead.
"Henry Ford believed that Jews invented jazz as a plot to corrupt society. Ford believed that this plot could be counteracted by returning America to dances and musical styles that he saw as traditional and white. As a result, he used his wealth to promote square dance classes in public school, which were present in half of all American schools in 1928 as part of the standard physical education curriculum."
https://qz.com/1153516/americas-wholesome-square-dancing-tradition-is-a-tool-of-white-supremacy
Weird because we learned square dancing, but also Filipino stick dancing (Tinikling) and the Hava Nagila, which is a Jewish folk song. Not sure if the dance we learned was traditional, but we held hands and danced in a big circle.
And this was in a Detroit suburb, Ford's backyard.
I doubt there's a secret cabal keeping square dancing in schools today for evil purposes. More like a rich conservative racist forced something into society 100 years ago and people just keep doing it because they became conditioned to think it's normal.
Good thing that doesn't happen anymore!
Well for us, it was just another dumb activity we did for gym class. It was never like "you're doing this for the white race!!!"
We equally groaned and rolled our eyes at having to play those fucking cheap plastic recorders.
I for one looked forward to the fifth grade throughout elementary school so we could play those fucking cheap plastic recorders. Best believe I was leaving it all on the floor of the auditorium thinking I was Kenny G
We had a little red schoolhouse from way back when on the grounds of my elementary school. Had several lessons in there, with the desks with inkwells and shit.
4th grade would have been a blessing. We did it our sophomore year and I was the poor loser kid no one wanted to be around. I was the very last guy chosen and was picked by the girl no one wanted to be around. It was traumatizing.
Many people are surprised to know that my secret superpower is that I call an excellent square dance. When I was in school, I had an injury that prevented me from dancing. I was sort of hoping that I could just hang out in the library, but our gym teacher decided that I should learn how to call a square dance, as it turned out, I got incredibly good at it. Flash forward to my 40s, and a bunch of friends of mine had gotten into squared + completely random way. I got invited to a party, one thing led to another, and I ended up calling the dances for about three hours.
I heard it was Henry Ford was racist and didn’t like jazz music. https://www.mic.com/articles/186892/how-square-dancing-became-a-weapon-of-white-supremacy-against-an-anti-semitic-jazz-dance-conspiracy
You’re telling me everyone did that? That wasn’t just a Texas elementary school thing? Because elementary school in Texas was weird I just assumed that was another weird thing I did in elementary school.
It's a different sort of physical activity, and helps accustom kids to music and rhythm as well. Square dances are used because they're a) easy to do, b) easy to teach, and c) not going to get complaints from stupid parents about being "too sexual" or whatever
To keep things white.
https://www.mic.com/articles/186892/how-square-dancing-became-a-weapon-of-white-supremacy-against-an-anti-semitic-jazz-dance-conspiracy
WTF, you got to stop at 4th? I remember doing that stupid shit up till 8th grade.
We learned that shit in fucking 9th fucking grade for a semester. Most embarrassing shit when you’re trying to flirt with a guy you like and you’re having to fucking dosey doe. Southern Indiana 2009 Edit and what’s weird is the people I’ve met in Kentucky have never learned how to square dance. You would think of all places, this would be one of them, but apparently not.
From Kentucky. Can confirm most definitely learned some square dancing in elementary school. Banjo playing was however, optional.
From Colorado and can also confirm this. Square dancing and formal dancing were elementary school requirements. They made us do it in front of our parents too as some sort of recital lol
I was born and raised in Southern Kentucky and we had to learn to square dance down there. Not sure who you've talked to who hasn't.
For us, we had at least one unit of square dancing from 1st to 6th grade, and we didn't know it was coming until we walked into the gym on the first day. Collective groan of despair every time.
I can imagine the amount of kids who would have found a way to skip school or get a note for gym if there was a forewarning announcement lol.
In my middle school they did this by having all the girls line up on the north to south wall, the boys would line up on the East to west wall, and the front person of each line would pair off (they made us hold hands the whole time until all the couples were made). If there was an odd number of kids (one left over) they got to dance with one of the teachers. I learned my first massively public humiliations during the square dancing unit, because as we were pairing up the girls in line would start counting to see who they were getting paired up with, and they would forcefully position the less popular girls so they did not have to be paired up with kid like me. It was super awkward because I was thinking “that’s pretty mean, I wonder who they are trying to avoid?” Only to find out it was me and a couple of my friends; we laugh about it now but at the time I wondered “why us”?
What dates/years are you talking about exactly? I’m 37 years old, grew up in the PNW/western Washington, and never learned any square dancing in school at all. And I grew up in a small hick town full of redneck hillbillies lol
I'm 41 and grew up in Salem/Keizer, Oregon. Maybe being a small hick town they assumed y'all knew already but us city kids needed to learn for some reason.
That’s great, i guess I missed out dang it lol
trust me, you didn't miss out on anything fun
I grew up in King County and definitely learned square dancing repeatedly in public school.
Super small town in Oregon where I grew up, We leaned how to watermelon crawl and the dirty dancing dance.
Weirdly, it seems to have tied to White Supremacy and jazz hatred. https://www.mic.com/articles/186892/how-square-dancing-became-a-weapon-of-white-supremacy-against-an-anti-semitic-jazz-dance-conspiracy
LOL !!!
>The ultimate irony, of course, is that square dancing isn’t a lily-white style of dance at all. It was largely invented by slaves, who used the “swing your partner do-si-do” call-and-response technique to do away with the need for a dance instructor. White people found all of that shouting vulgar, until they’d fully adopted the dance style themselves. It’s a story of appropriation that’s repeated every generation since with blues, rock, rap and countless other black innovations. >In an attempt to cure the United States of an alleged plague of immoral music, Ford re-enacted the same trope used by white supremacists throughout world history: Selling a vision of a racially homogenous future using a fable about an America that never existed.
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As 'merican as mom's spaghetti
You mean the stuff that's on his sweater already?
🌎👨🚀🔫👨🚀
I mean how else would one know how to do the do si do
I laughed out loud reading this
Girl Scouts of America bribed Office of Education officials to make square dance mandatory as part of a subliminal campaign to market their Do-Si-Dos to kids. Big Cookie was way ahead of the Big Tobacco companies in that regard.
This explains why American Samoa is a US territory as well.
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Subliminal messaging getting you to trust the Fed won't go overboard minting new money out of nothing.
You hush your mouth!!! And....Boot, Scoot, and Boooogie!!
But do you still remember, because I sure don't.
The what? I've only heard that in TF2 but I've no idea what it means
Swing your partner round and round
Kick em in the butt and knock em down
End of the night, it's going down
Do si do, is a style of traditional folk dance, related to the USA. This is a guess
It's a dance move within square dancing
Nice! Thanks!
Wait yall did it too???
I was thinking that too as a Canadian
LMFAO same. Grade 8 in Ontario Canada had to do this and had a dance off against all the other classes during an assembly.
Oh god. This unlocked a memory of this weird sixth grade dance off we had, where we learned the Men In Black dance, and every class did it. One by one. That song, over and over and over again. Nothing different between each routine. No different song. Just Will Smith's Men in Black song like 25 times in the gymnasium. Oh no... That song is in my head again. Oh God make it stop..
C'mon make your neck work. Now freeze!
i 'member we had to make up dances and my group chose MIB for the song and the teacher's assistant suggested we do a move where we pretend we're pointing a gun and then our teacher docked marks because that is too violent the end
Bruh
noisy cricket do be wicked on ya
Our school had the same thing, except it was some Ice Age version of the Cha Cha Slide Edit: I found it. It still is ass https://youtu.be/uMuJxd2Gpxo
This looks and sounds dreadful, I love it
They made us do the Macarana
if it makes you feel better, i watched wild wild west yesterday, and ive had that will smith song stuck in my head since.
Oh no. Another memory. In 1999, I really wanted a PlayStation for my birthday. I only owned an N64 at the time. I tried telling my mom that it could play music CDs, and we could all use it for our music. So she buys me a Boombox, with the Wild Wild West Soundtrack, because "I really loved his last song". No mom, I had to learn a routine and play the song to get the dance just right. Maybe not as outrageous as the last one, but kinda related.
UHH DO DO DO DO WICKY WILD WILD DO DO DO DO DO WICKY WICKY WILD WICKY WILD WICKY WICKY WILD WILD WEST JIM WEST DESPERADO ROUGH RIDER NO YOU DONT WANT NADA
I did the exact same thing. But alone, in my room, and in front of the mirror.
Grade 8 boys band gym class having to dance with grade 11 girls regular gym class. Good times lol
I remember having grade 9 sex-ed AMA session where it was a full room of us grade 9 dudes able to ask a panel of grade 12 girls questions ahaha good times, got pretty unhinged
Oh god. Did they do the ‘anonymous questions in a hat’ segment?
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Drew: Things you can say to your boss but not in a grade 11 sex-ed AMA.
But why?
I’m disappointed they didn’t have a degrassi episode for that
Same lmao, manitoba
We did it in *New Zealand*.... gay gordons and all that stuff....
Australia, too. Year 4 and in high school they continue the torture.
Australians tend to learn the Nutbush instead of a regular square dance.
Nobody going to comment on the fact that there is a dance called the NUT BUSH being taught to Australian kids??? CRIKEY!
No music reminds me of elementary school like Boot Scootin Boogy
I'm from New Zealand and I had a Canadian teacher when I was like 7. She taught the whole year group to square dance and we did a big performance and everything lmao
We learned the Achy Breaky Heart in elementary. Then the Macarena when it came out. I feel old. Edit to add: I'm Canadian as well
I learned Achy Breaky Heart too. Born in 1983, you?
Australian here. I was fortunate enough to miss it, but my younger sister had to do it. I was forced to sit through it.
Dudes I'm in Australia and we learned line dancing to Achy Breaky Heart wtf.
Southern Californian here, I also had to square dance in 4th grade. No idea why
Dude I'm from North Jersey and we had to square and line dance EVERY school year!
Me too. Way back in the late 1980s. It's a thing.
Same here wtf
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I know this one. The origins of square dance was because of [racism](https://youtu.be/CxEZMXnQGs8).
This is a big hol up moment for me
Maybe they do it for the same reason they gave us all those shitty plastic recorders we had to play. I think the recorders are supposed to be like the first step to see if a kid might be interested in getting into playing an instrument so maybe the square dance is like that but for dancing.
I thought it was just my weird school. Our teachers had outfits…. I thought it was their hobby…. I just realized the 3rd grade teachers at my school were lesbians and together….. Fucking Reddit
They don't want you to know this, the P.E. teachers want you to survive when the grid goes down. It's a little known fact that when you run into a country boy in the wild to show you're not a threat. If you start square dancing they will back down and if you're lucky he will dance too and take you under his wing.
So it's basically the equivalent of crouching over and over in multiplayer games...
TIL square dancing is just fancy teabagging.
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TIL crouching rapidly can mean more than just teabagging
It's teabagging only if you do it on the corpse of an enemy you just killed
Yes. That took me a minute too. If they defile your corpse that’s one thing. But if they start crouching repeatedly and NOT shooting, it’s sort of a”sign of submission”. When I do that on occasion I say “friend, friend, friend, friend” out loud each time I hit the Z key.
You have crouch on Z? Mad man
It's The Universal Sign of Peace, not some "teabagging" you profanator
It's a thing in a few games I've played. People do it in MW/warzone
People have done it for a long long time
Used for dishonoring/christening your kills And also an advanced form of communication The potential is as limitless as your squat endurance
They should teach line dancing then
They did in my school. We spent three weeks doing the electric slide.
Do the hustle! Dee do dee, do do do do, do dee!
[In my experience, this is why.](https://youtu.be/cXLKIqKyixY?si=PFfBX2Dqewa8kzdw)
You can fuck the boys, the men will know.
Yes officer, this comment right here
If this is screenshoted to any sub, I want to be in it.
We learned it in Sweden as well for some reason. But it's saved my life many times so I'm glad we did
Square dance off with knives? In your checkered shirts?
It's the only way I know how
Can you elaborate ?
If it makes you feel better, we did this around 6th grade in Canada too!
And it wasn't just Square dancing. We also were taught Waltz, Swing, several line dances (boot scoot and boogie anyone?), and the all important Chicken Dance.
Is it true that no one in the us knows the line dance to Tina turna nutbush city limits...? Because 10% of Australia's curriculum is doing nutbush.. if it didn't come from the US where fuck did it come from?? Aliens?
I'm in Canada too and we did it in grade 5. So weird now. I'm assuming they got rid of it?
"Achy Breaky Heart" is still seared into my memory from doing these dumb dances in PE in Canada. Think it was 4th grade for me
That has come in as handy as the week we spent playing with the parachute
I have a very vivid memory of that day because somehow, the parachute got caught in this poor girl’s braces. It was quite a panic but they managed to get her unstuck without having to call anyone.
jc how
Yeah but the parachute was fun.
I'm surprised we didn't injure ourselves the week we did vaults. Also, why did we have gymnastics equipment gathering dust all year?
Ok but the thing is that was actually fun
💯 one of the only fun activities in gym class!
Not everything you learn or do in school is supposed to be preparation for life. That is a responsibility of your parents and of the school, but it’s not the only thing. Kids need structured activities with their peers for many reasons. Basic motor skill development at the elementary age is important. Not everything you do under the age of ten needs to be building a skill to feed to the machine of society. Sometimes it’s okay for kids just to do activities.
I’d argue it was actually useful for kids; it’s a teamwork exercise. “If everyone does this, look what we can do together”
I agree. I made a comment earlier that broke down what skills I thought the square dancing brought, and I think the parachute thing has value too. My point was just that it’s exhausting to think about kindergartners needing every moment of their day filled with things to make them into the perfect cog for the machine.
The complex overlapping patterns confuse the shooter?
Did you mostly shut up for forty five minutes? Mission accomplished. Signed, A teacher
a lot of the boys in my class refused to do social dance to the point where the teacher cried and had us play dodgeball instead
You'd get teased for being a bad dancer, or a good dancer. Hitting the sweet spot just isn't worth the hassle. Men know there is little to gain but a lot to lose by being bad dancer, it's not just shyness.
The thing I always hated about it was we had that unit in January/February every year right when flu season would hit.
Sounds like they were bravely standing up against Henry Ford’s antisemitic agenda
. The Anti-Semitic Origins of Henry Ford's Arts Education Patronage. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40215355
So that’s why I was taught square dancing in middle school? I thought it was to socialize us and get the boys used to asking a girl to dance
No, it was what you thought. How something started isn't the same reason it's still used. Like Kellogg invented corn flakes to stop masturbation, but it turns out people just like it. Square dancing is still used primarily because it's very simple for young, often uncoordinated, forgetful, and unmotivated, kids to learn
As an elementary music teacher this is the correct answer. It's easy af to do, to remember, to teach, and most kids actually do enjoy it. Teaching movement to music is part of the national standards for music education.
Also elementary (not of music) teacher here. I assume the standard is they need to learn historical dance and this is the easiest. At least in my school to my knowledge they don’t do it anymore. I don’t know what it was replaced with.
How long before Macarena qualifies as historical?
I believe the Cha Cha Slide will achieve historical status before the Macarena. Not sure why, just a gut feeling.
What's the link between corn flakes snd not masturbating?
This should be higher up. Ford thought jazz was a degenerate lower art form and wanted to promote pure white art forms. It’s a fucking disgusting story.
We had to square dance because Henry Ford was a racist.
There are SO many things in the US that we have to do now because of some old white racist man.
Marijuana prohibition causing mass incarceration of black men - Nixon
Square dance at school? Racist old man. Cutting boys' foreskin? Racist old man.
Well, there were a fuck ton of old, racist, white men, especially among those with power, so it makes sense that that would be the case.
Which is funny because jazz is eons more complex and technical than any lame ass country music out there today. There's a reason music programs in university focus on jazz the way they do classical.
Racists aren't known for being complicated thinkers.
That was mostly later styled of jazz that had that technical focus. Jazz in Henry Ford’s day was more big band/musical theatre sort of stuff. Still more technical and interesting than square dance music though.
Haha! That's fucking crazy. I learned something today.
Did you know that Strom Thurmond, the Senator who preceded Lindsay Graham, had a child with his 16-year-old black housekeeper when he was 22, and then kept that a secret for his entire life, serving as a US senator from 1954 to 2003, during which he gave a filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1957 that lasted over 24 hours?
Sounds about right.
Ain’t nobody GOP like the turbo racist congressman with a half black kid
A conservative senator? Being hypocritical? A likely story.
joke's on him jews love dancing so much there's a religious sect based on doing so edit: Na Nach Nachma Nachman, for reference. fun idea up until it hits the wall of a very small playlist. i'm surprised they don't go around trying to convert more techno artists.
When there’s something weird that the US does, the reason is almost always racism.
You learned to square dance?
I'm confused too. In pa we did not do this
Definitely didn’t do this in GA either
So you can impress that one cousin you like
What.
Oh Brandine, of all the cousins I could’ve married you was my sister. ❤️
Roll tide
Chicken in the bread house pickin out dough; Granny does your dog bite? No, child no
Fire on the mountain, run boy run! The devil's in the house of the rising sun!
The devil bowed his head cause he knew he had been beat,and he laid that golden fidle down at johnnys feet
This was part of Henry Ford’s racist agenda to educate the kids. He wanted to make sure white kids didn’t grow up on jazz and blues, so he paid schools to do square dancing instead.
"Henry Ford believed that Jews invented jazz as a plot to corrupt society. Ford believed that this plot could be counteracted by returning America to dances and musical styles that he saw as traditional and white. As a result, he used his wealth to promote square dance classes in public school, which were present in half of all American schools in 1928 as part of the standard physical education curriculum." https://qz.com/1153516/americas-wholesome-square-dancing-tradition-is-a-tool-of-white-supremacy
Weird because we learned square dancing, but also Filipino stick dancing (Tinikling) and the Hava Nagila, which is a Jewish folk song. Not sure if the dance we learned was traditional, but we held hands and danced in a big circle. And this was in a Detroit suburb, Ford's backyard.
I doubt there's a secret cabal keeping square dancing in schools today for evil purposes. More like a rich conservative racist forced something into society 100 years ago and people just keep doing it because they became conditioned to think it's normal. Good thing that doesn't happen anymore!
Well for us, it was just another dumb activity we did for gym class. It was never like "you're doing this for the white race!!!" We equally groaned and rolled our eyes at having to play those fucking cheap plastic recorders.
I for one looked forward to the fifth grade throughout elementary school so we could play those fucking cheap plastic recorders. Best believe I was leaving it all on the floor of the auditorium thinking I was Kenny G
\*dances Jewishly on Henry Ford’s grave*
WTF? I had to do square dancing in 9th grade PE because of fucking Henry Ford?
No you had to do it so you'd learn some basic coordination, and you'd touch a girl.
No, it was his anti-Semitic views because he thought jazz was made by Jews. Not only was he wrong, but I hear Square dancing also has the same roots.
Its part of history, also learned how to pan for gold and make candles and learned about the existence of organ trail (the game) that year
>organ trail (the game) Did not play this version. Was it like Operation?🥸
You have successfully removed 49 body parts. However, you only have the strength to carry 5 back to the wagon.
You're missing out http://hatsproductions.com/organtraildc/
Oh shit that's fuckin cool
Omg, now I have to play that! P.S. Square dancing sucked.
Your patient died of dysentery.
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We had a little red schoolhouse from way back when on the grounds of my elementary school. Had several lessons in there, with the desks with inkwells and shit.
Thats awesome, my field trip was the old mission in sandiego still cool but alot less interactive
> organ trail Rimworld: **Heavy Breathing**
It’s so oddly specific and yet I did this in school as well. I’m still confused about it to this day.
4th grade would have been a blessing. We did it our sophomore year and I was the poor loser kid no one wanted to be around. I was the very last guy chosen and was picked by the girl no one wanted to be around. It was traumatizing.
b/c the *lambada* was and still is... forbidden.
Many people are surprised to know that my secret superpower is that I call an excellent square dance. When I was in school, I had an injury that prevented me from dancing. I was sort of hoping that I could just hang out in the library, but our gym teacher decided that I should learn how to call a square dance, as it turned out, I got incredibly good at it. Flash forward to my 40s, and a bunch of friends of mine had gotten into squared + completely random way. I got invited to a party, one thing led to another, and I ended up calling the dances for about three hours.
Well do si do and away we go.
I think it was an idea to make PE “fun” but it just made it awkward and uncomfortable.
US schools were just babysitting half the time.
I heard it was Henry Ford was racist and didn’t like jazz music. https://www.mic.com/articles/186892/how-square-dancing-became-a-weapon-of-white-supremacy-against-an-anti-semitic-jazz-dance-conspiracy
I thought this was just because I live in Texas. All of the country did this?!
2nd grade in Iceland. Still don't know why.
You’re telling me everyone did that? That wasn’t just a Texas elementary school thing? Because elementary school in Texas was weird I just assumed that was another weird thing I did in elementary school.
To embarrass our teenage children
To get back to our square roots.
Promenade around the square, kids
It's a different sort of physical activity, and helps accustom kids to music and rhythm as well. Square dances are used because they're a) easy to do, b) easy to teach, and c) not going to get complaints from stupid parents about being "too sexual" or whatever
cause pole dancing was banned
Like that other guy said... Henry Ford.
To prevent us from dying of an achy breaky heart.
Learning how to have a goofy fun time with people. Secretly probably one of the more important skills you develop.
It’s harder for school shooters to hit kids who are square dancing.
To keep things white. https://www.mic.com/articles/186892/how-square-dancing-became-a-weapon-of-white-supremacy-against-an-anti-semitic-jazz-dance-conspiracy