Canadian Teachers' Sexy Pep Rally Dance Leads To Suspension (VIDEO)

Two teachers in Winnipeg, Canada have been sent home without pay after students filmed the pair dancing in a sexually suggestive manner at a pep rally.

The two teachers were filmed by hooting students at Churchill High School as they danced. At several points the male teacher puts his head between the legs of the female teacher. The student filmmaker named the movie "Two Teachers, One Chair," a reference to an extremely pornographic viral video.

The Toronto Star has some reactions from shocked pupils and parents:

"It looked like, dare I say it, sex on the dance floor," 17-year-old student Heather Mason told CBC Manitoba. "Stuff kids shouldn't be seeing. I was shocked. I don't expect anything like that from teachers."

"They so, so crossed the line," a parent told the Winnipeg Free Press. "It embarrassed me. While we were first watching it, I said, 'They crossed the line.' "

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Comments

[RobinSeattle]

03:12 PM on 02/27/2010

At least the teachers were only suspended. If this had been in the U.S., they would have gotten fired so fast it would have made their heads spin because administrators and school boards here have no sense of proportion.

But I also have to say that this exhibition was kinda nauseating and very, very stupid. What in God's name was going through their minds?

[terry63]

11:06 PM on 02/27/2010

They should have been fired on the spot, What exactly are they teaching? Maybe they should just get a room.

[hidenout]

06:58 AM on 02/28/2010

"At least they weren't fired...."

If I make a absurdly stupid decision on the job, I wouldn't be surprised if someone fire me. If I were one of those two, I would be thanking my lucky stars I was still getting a check.

Seems to me management doesn't have much more sense than the two teachers, but to each his own.

[Pumpski]

02:41 AM on 02/27/2010

If he just shook his A#@ in her face for a second for a joke maybe it would be ok. But to put his face down between her legs like that was pornographic. How crude.

[NoSillyName]

08:55 PM on 02/26/2010

I would hardly call that a "dance"... or a "pep rally".

Of course, the vid is so shaky it's hard to tell what is going on.

Is booze an integral part of Canadian Pep Rallies?

[Sonkwa Sonkwa]

04:55 PM on 02/26/2010

I've herad of an American tradition where the girls come dress as boys and the boys as girls.
Ridiculous, trashy and the same idea.

[NYCSocialWork]

04:32 PM on 02/26/2010

I love how they're saying that students were offended...but then state that students named it by referencing an "extremely pornographic viral video" so obviously these students have seen much, much worse.

Hey, what about Miley Cyrus' pole dance at Teen Choice???

[terry63]

11:07 PM on 02/27/2010

Well maybe if your lucky next time it may be youre kid some dude sticks his butt and his nu*** in the face of.

[MJinCanada]

01:29 PM on 02/26/2010

The perspective from my teenage sons is: "Whoops, a little too explicit."

There is a tendency among young teachers to impress students with how cool they can be, and if they are successful, they can use it to maintain discipline and inspiration in the classroom. (If two English teachers give exactly the same reasons why Shakespeare is still relevant, the students will listen to the teacher with tats and dreads more attentively than the teacher in the 80s plaid polyester pants.)

If they are otherwise good teachers, the suspension will be followed by some instruction on proper behaviour and new positions.

I feel for the students who might be stuck with a series of substitute teachers from hell for the rest of the semester.

[Pedro Feria Pino]

11:57 AM on 02/26/2010

Jesus people, yes it was inappropriate, but get over it, they were dancing at a pep rally, everyone was having fun and enjoying themselves. High school kids have seen worse than this at their age. You see worse things on The Hills or on any show on the CW and parents don't have a problem with letting their kids watch that trash. Blown way out of proportion. They were having fun and got carried away, it doesn't mean they arn't good teachers. Everyone needs to get off their "Moral high horse".

[screamformechicago]

12:48 PM on 02/26/2010

They may very well be good teachers, but they made an exceedingly bad call. Nobody is saying that enjoying yourself, even making a spectacle of yourself, at a pep rally is bad. Is the HOW.

And yes, Pedro Feria Pino, kids can and do "see worse" on tv and the internet. But that, like your point about them being good teachers, is also beside the point. We're not talking about what kids can and do see at home; we're asking the question whether or not they should see a sexually charged dance performed by staff at school. You yourself concede that it was inappropriate. So, yeah, people are going to get really upset by this. When I teach my kids that sex is a great thing, but has to be enjoyed in a certain context for spiritual and health reasons, and not simply viewed as advanced kissing, I don't expect that a school pep rally is going to undermine that message. School is supposed to be helping me grow my kids, not making my job as a parent more difficult.

[Pedro Feria Pino]

02:35 PM on 02/26/2010

And what about Cheerleaders? Are there dances sexually charged? You better believe they are, should we suspend them too?? Most of those "kids" watching that have already had sex, oral sex and a few other forms of sex that you probably don't want to hear about. I don't know what your talking about when you say" special "context for spiritual and health reasons" sex is sex and it is everywhere, you can't shelter your kids in that "bubble" forever.

[wassilij]

09:32 PM on 02/26/2010

Then YOU send YOUR daughter to THEIR class

[ZoeyEpicurean]

11:55 AM on 02/26/2010

What absolute stupidity!

[EnPointe]

09:55 AM on 02/27/2010

Exactly...They both really qualify for the, " WTF was I thinking??" award. : )
(and worse, they can't even blame it on booze - - I'm assuming)

[Ali Rockwood]

11:32 AM on 02/26/2010

chris rock said it best, the most important thing we can do as parents is to keep our daughters off the pole!!! and apparently, away from teachers who dabble in other er, "professions" after hours.

[LittleRedHenSez]

11:13 AM on 02/26/2010

I hope they are suspended for the rest of the school year and contract not renewed. They are too immature to be teaching. I don't care how well they may teach the subject matter. Teaching a subject doesn't exist in a vacuum--teachers reflect values and mores and there are lines that shouldn't be crossed. How much effort is taken by law enforcement to close massage parlors that open near a school or residential area--and that's behind closed doors. And it's not just because it's sexual in nature. A teacher in a town near mine was suspended for biting the head off a live bird in front of kids. There are all kinds of behaviors that are just wrong.

[LeftistGuerrilla]

10:52 AM on 02/26/2010

was just saying how you shouldn't act in public any way that you would want your children or your employers to see you. What stupidity.

[Dukedraven]

10:46 AM on 02/26/2010

He's either drunk or stupid, or both.

[Neaguy]

10:41 AM on 02/26/2010

These two are so young they look like students. They should not be renewed at school. I wonder how they even got their jobs in the first place.

[commentator101]

10:30 AM on 02/26/2010

It's really pretty funny. They didn't cross the line so much as long jump way over it. They need to get a room and satisfy these urges that led them to throw caution - and their careers - to the wind like that. I'll bet they have by now, if they hadn't already.

[gardengranny]

10:34 AM on 02/26/2010

You have a very low threshold for what is "funny."

[liveordie]

10:42 AM on 02/26/2010

hear, hear

[JayMaeBee]

10:26 AM on 02/26/2010

Chair "dancers" - TOTALLY STUPID PEOPLE. Depending on how well they teach (otherwise), maybe they should be fired. And I am not a prude.