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Schools Crack Down on "Dirty Dancing"

If you think high school dances are all good, clean fun, here's a rude awakening.

There's a lot of "dirty dancing" or "freak dancing" going on and administrators are trying to stop it using everything from signed contracts to playing music no kid would dare dance to.

"I saw essentially what was a tenth grade girl giving a tenth grade boy a lap dance," said Dean of Students Mickey Blaine at the Pacific Hills School, which is located in West Hollywood, Calif.

It's easy to find lessons in "freak dancing" online. Students admit they've learned well.

"It is kind of like sex with clothes on," said a student named Antoinette.

Now school administrators are saying, enough!

"I think what was important was parents had to really see what it was that the kids were doing," said Principal Charles Salter of Aliso Niguel High School, which is located in Southern California's Orange County.

Salter has now put in a dress code and forced students and parents to sign a contract.

"No straddling legs, no bending over, no front-to-back touching, grinding," student Antoinette read from the contract.

"Hands on waste and shoulders only." Okay," read student Chase, who was making a face at the rule.

"Getting kicked out of a dance just for 'freak dancing' seems a bit harsh," admitted student Angie.

Not to parents it doesn't.

"The way the kids are dancing was really, it was degrading to girls," said parent Eva Marie Morris.

At another California school, there are no contracts, but if kids get too frisky - "we flip on the lights and play Burt Bacharach, anything that William Shatner has recorded," Blaine said.

"People just go 'what is going on? Get me out of this place!'" admitted Antoinette.

Administrators say the lesson is simple: "If you're coming to a school-sponsored event, you're expected to act appropriately for school," Blaine said.

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