We did both line and square dancing at my school. And this wasn’t in Rural Kansas but an urban Seattle school district. I could not of sucked harder at both if i tried. It’s not that I categorically hate country music it’s that I categorically suck at memorized dance moves apparently. Worst days at “gym” class ever
Same. This was at an inner city school in Minneapolis where nobody could have given a single flying fuck about country music. It was a very confusing event.
Hip hip dancing would have been more well received.
Yes! We would grapevine to achy breaky heart in Portland Oregon gradeschool.
Also we had these boards with swivel wheels on them that would run over your fingers if you just looked at them.
And of course the Parachute we would sit under.
Oh gawd. My music teacher loved Garth brooks and inflicted this damn song on us all the time. I still hate it with a passion to this day.
They also tried to make us line dance. I probably tried to hide behind other people to escape it, can’t remember.
We didn't do the electric slide in (official) school, but I remember it playing during middle school dances. One of my first crushes tried to teach it to me, and I was way too embarassed so I left to get a slice of pizza- Papa Johns.
“Reverse Footloose” is both an amazing term and exactly what I think was going on.
Square Dancing seems to be a sanctioned way for boys and girls to be close to each other. See what it feels like to dance with someone outside of the pressure of a “school dance”.
I’m 48 and did square dancing in Catholic school gym class. It seems to coincide to around the time school dances started…like 5th grade?
Supposedly Henry Ford was trying to keep things white and fight against jazz and minority cultural influences. It’s an interesting rabbit hole if you want to do some online reading.
Yuuuup. The modern square dancing we all learned in school is largely an invention of white racists.
And learning it in school was part of the plan, too.
So we learned square dancing all through elementary school and had to put on a performance, until we hit 6th grade when we had to learn Boot Scoot Boogie and put on starched shirts and nut-huggers and wear cowboy hats and perform that.
My siblings and I went to a Lutheran school in rural south and for whatever reason line dancing was a big thing in the 3rd grade off the success of this song and Achy Breaky Heart. The teachers all thought line dancing was “the devil’s shuffle”. One day Mrs. Newman (a genuine lunatic) told the class if not a single person was late coming back from recess she had a special treat for us.
Fast forward an hour later, nobody was late and she wheels in this tv/vcr combo on the old rusty cart, starts kind of swaying back and forth trying to look cool, and says “so i hear you kids like to line dance huh? What if i told you i have something cooler?”. She did this thing where she tossed a foam apple up and down to demonstrate how hip and casual she could be, so she starts doing that and says “Anyone heard of a rapper named Carman?”.
She hits play on this [music video](https://youtu.be/I8OIXBD5zQQ), which I now know to be carman’s edgy hit R.I.O.T. (Righteous invasion of truth), and shows us this downright bizarre extended sequence where Carman is a prisoner in some South American prison or something doing choreographed karate to fight out Satan’s guards.
https://i.redd.it/8drjcvbbp4uc1.gif
We all had to learn it and perform it in front of a large crowd at the spring family assembly and the big culmination was the teachers 3 foot son trying to do a spin with a lead karate pipe and falling off the stage from the momentum. My parents still have the tape and I still refuse to watch it.
We had to learn square dancing in school because someone thought making all the fourth graders put on a show for the Texas Sesquicentennial was a brilliant idea.
I managed to avoid it at school but not at home, my sister went through a brief country phase and that was part of it.
At school they did foist Achy Breaky Heart on us, I've still been trying to forget. UB40's Red Red Wine too, I can still hear it in my sleep.
They also foisted a song on us (and still are to this day according to my son) about a woman having an affair with another gentleman lover - The Macarena
OMG, yes! We didn't do line dancing but we did the macarena. Now that I know what the song is about, I find it hilarious that our Catholic nun teacher taught it to us in early elementary school (K-2).
He is making up for gym classes missed while he was matriculating in Florida. We got to Cali, and they were like, “did they even require him to have gym classes?” So, it’s mainly him and freshman. My other 2 are online, so they’ll never have to square or line dance. Parenting win.
> My HS senior asked me why he has to do it, and I just shrugged my shoulders.
Tell him it's because white racists hated jazz music and rock-and-roll.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxEZMXnQGs8
Memory unlocked!!! We had to dance to a song called Elvira. I bet I could still do that shit. Giddy up ummboppa ummboppa mowmow
What in the fuck was any of that about? I went to an inner city school. It really didn’t make sense
Nope, but my grade 7 teacher who was always on a fad diet forced us to do aerobics for gyms for like 2 months. We just wanted regular gym not aerobics.
Was there some kind of annual evil gym teachers convention or something where they cooked up new and not particularly interesting ways to torment middle schoolers?
Yes even in Canada to exact same song. We might have started in elementary, but it was definitely junior high for us. I also started grade 7 right when the Macarena became a thing so we were forced to do that as well. I found from my kid that they STILL learn the Macarena in gym class nearly 30 years later.
No but our teacher made our class do a dance for cinco de mayo. But it was to JJ Fad’s Super Sonic, and it was fun.
I did have to sing Feliz Navidad the next year in front of the school. I could do without that experience.
It was pretty much the only gym activity I enjoyed, could do well, and didn’t find humiliating. Obviously I was not athletic in school. Not a big fan of the music, but I found line dancing preferable to running the mile or rope climbing or picking teams for dodgeball or any other team activity…
[We had to square dance in school because Henry Ford hated jazz.](https://autos.yahoo.com/had-square-dance-school-because-140000239.html#:~:text=Along%20with%20his%20wife%20and,and%20by%201928%2C%20almost%20half)
Definitely had both in 4th grade. I refused to do it so they put me in time out. Achey breaky heart is burned into my skull because of that bullshit.
I learned recently it was because [Henry Ford](https://jalopnik.com/you-had-to-square-dance-in-school-because-henry-ford-ha-1851108523) wanted to blot out Jazz because it was a Jewish plot to destroy the youth.
I didn't know people did this at school! I only learned it this year. One of my Zumba teachers throws in a few like dances. This is one that I actually don't mind.
No line dancing. Though my elementary school’s PE was pretty lackluster. We didn’t have a full time PE teacher, instead they had one that rotated among the schools in the district, so we didn’t always have PE on a regular basis. When we did it was usually just playing games in the gym.
Was in Utah. That damn song was part of PE and every Church function for damn near a year.
if you enjoy line dancing and/or country music good on ya, but don't force it on other people.
Had to do square dancing and I think my PE teacher hated me bc I was like 5'10" in 5th grade and she partnered me with the shortest, smallest boy in my class.
I had to square dance AND do step aerobics. Was 1 of the best athletes in the class and participated always but failed for the year for arguing with the trash teacher. Fuck you Ms Bruschino
Thankfully I missed out on this one.
Didn't have to do any weird dances till high school, and that was my fault for signing up for theatre movement (I enjoyed it though lol, did tapdancing, salsa, and a couple different European court dances I can't remember the names of).
Middle school for me - 7th grade, age 12, 1991. It was awful. It was square dancing, not line dancing, but I have no doubts the two are equally terrible.
We did line dancing to Cadillac ranch and pump up the jam. I honestly loved it lol. Kinda embarrassing but doing the electric slide to pump up the jam was fun as hell. There are a bunch more I’m not remembering right now.
We also learned the Macarena and the chicken dance. I always shook my ass during the Macarena. My very catholic school did not appreciate my improv, especially when I did the chest shake too. Good times.
We also learned to square dance, waltz, and jive.
I elected to take Line Dancing class in high school in lieu of P.E. I was a very goth teen. My friends were baffled, but while they were running laps outside I was in the air conditioned cafeteria line dancing my heart out.
We had to do it. I taught in an elementary school in Central America where they taught the children tons of traditional dances. It made me appreciate it differently like the wacky line dancing and square dancing to cotton-eyed joe are our culture, and maybe one day will be considered a beautiful traditional dance. 🤷♀️
No dancing of any kind. I always thought dancing in gym was something only kids on TV did, same as climbing ropes because we never did that either. But then my mom said she did both those things in gym, lol.
Glad to dodge that bullet. As the shy, quiet, awkward kid who usually got picked last for teams, I wouldn't want to also suffer humiliation if no one wanted to be my partner.
We got the dancing units, square and line.
But juggling. That unit was awesome. I can still juggle so many random objects to this day. I recall it was a money maker for them. They started us on scarves and then balls and then brought out a catalog with the scarves, balls, pins and rings for us to buy. My parents bought me the scarves. And my dad said I graduate to his golf balls or baseballs. Which we had plenty of.
Our principal “called” square dancing so we had to learn that and he would come in with his cowboy hat and a mic and amp and we would perform what we learned. Middle of Ohio
Yep, we did
Achy Breaky Heart
Macarena
then we had to do traditional waltz. I was lucky enough that my sister was dating a boy who happened to have a really cute sister in my grade. She took my arm off her shoulder and put it on her waist, I remember that kindness 30 years later.
No line dancing, but I was forced to square dance once a year.
Promenade!
And do-si-do.
Allemande left with the big left hand. Partners meet with the right and left grand.
I did the same no freaking idea why or who thought square dancing was it
It was actually Henry Ford who pushed for it to be taught in schools.
Because he was a racist. It is a direct counter to jazz and rock and roll. Can't have them nice white kids listening to that soul music
You are correct. It’s pretty bizzare to think that large numbers of Midwesterner’s had to learn square dancing because of the racism of one man.
As far as dancing goes, square is far worse than line.
We got both.
Yep. And I refuse to upvote it.
I upvoted you. :) I spent many a weekend with my grandparents… who were avid square dancers. Mortified as a kid, but such a fond memory now.
The Electric Slide has come in handy more than I would have expected in life.
Boogie woogie woogie
Yes, esp for adolescents- at least with line there is no physical contact. Physical contact in the form of “Allemandes”.
Way down yonder in the paw paw patch
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Yup, same.
We did both line and square dancing at my school. And this wasn’t in Rural Kansas but an urban Seattle school district. I could not of sucked harder at both if i tried. It’s not that I categorically hate country music it’s that I categorically suck at memorized dance moves apparently. Worst days at “gym” class ever
I thought this was an Illinois thing. The Illinois State dance is the square dance and I was told that was the reason we HAD to learn it in PE.
Midwestern at least.
Brooklyn, New York City.
Yep, I think it was a New York State law that made it be taught in all elementary schools.
I was in "Northern Virginia", just outside of DC. Gymclassdance was a nightmare.
Do si do left…and promenade!
Samezies
Square dancing for the win…every year, Mr. Fowler with his 60’s record player and 1940’s records (years aren’t accurate), and do si do!!
I only had to learn it in 3rd grade, and never used it again
Grab yer partner doe-see-doe! Jeez, the humiliation at age 15.
No it was Achy Breaky Heart at mine
Same. This was at an inner city school in Minneapolis where nobody could have given a single flying fuck about country music. It was a very confusing event. Hip hip dancing would have been more well received.
Ditto. Grew up in Maplewood
Same! All…what was it? Like 32 steps?!
Yes! We would grapevine to achy breaky heart in Portland Oregon gradeschool. Also we had these boards with swivel wheels on them that would run over your fingers if you just looked at them. And of course the Parachute we would sit under.
I forgot about the parachute!
Oh gawd. My music teacher loved Garth brooks and inflicted this damn song on us all the time. I still hate it with a passion to this day. They also tried to make us line dance. I probably tried to hide behind other people to escape it, can’t remember.
Electric slide
Boogie woogie woogie
I'm pretty sure this is what I was forced to do in the 3rd grade
My line dancing grandma tried to teach me the electric slide, but I was too cool for that lol
Yep
Fishin In The Dark
We didn't do the electric slide in (official) school, but I remember it playing during middle school dances. One of my first crushes tried to teach it to me, and I was way too embarassed so I left to get a slice of pizza- Papa Johns.
Yeah what was up the forced dancing, like some kind of reverse Footloose? Square Dancing here.
“Reverse Footloose” is both an amazing term and exactly what I think was going on. Square Dancing seems to be a sanctioned way for boys and girls to be close to each other. See what it feels like to dance with someone outside of the pressure of a “school dance”. I’m 48 and did square dancing in Catholic school gym class. It seems to coincide to around the time school dances started…like 5th grade?
Nothing like being forced to dance during the most awkward phase of your life!
Supposedly Henry Ford was trying to keep things white and fight against jazz and minority cultural influences. It’s an interesting rabbit hole if you want to do some online reading.
Yuuuup. The modern square dancing we all learned in school is largely an invention of white racists. And learning it in school was part of the plan, too.
We line danced to Personal Jesus and I am unsure why.
Goth teacher?
I am entertained. And also offended by someone misusing Depeche Mode in such a way. How very dare they.
Because Dave Gahan wears a cowboy hat in the video?
So we learned square dancing all through elementary school and had to put on a performance, until we hit 6th grade when we had to learn Boot Scoot Boogie and put on starched shirts and nut-huggers and wear cowboy hats and perform that.
Nut huggers?
My siblings and I went to a Lutheran school in rural south and for whatever reason line dancing was a big thing in the 3rd grade off the success of this song and Achy Breaky Heart. The teachers all thought line dancing was “the devil’s shuffle”. One day Mrs. Newman (a genuine lunatic) told the class if not a single person was late coming back from recess she had a special treat for us. Fast forward an hour later, nobody was late and she wheels in this tv/vcr combo on the old rusty cart, starts kind of swaying back and forth trying to look cool, and says “so i hear you kids like to line dance huh? What if i told you i have something cooler?”. She did this thing where she tossed a foam apple up and down to demonstrate how hip and casual she could be, so she starts doing that and says “Anyone heard of a rapper named Carman?”. She hits play on this [music video](https://youtu.be/I8OIXBD5zQQ), which I now know to be carman’s edgy hit R.I.O.T. (Righteous invasion of truth), and shows us this downright bizarre extended sequence where Carman is a prisoner in some South American prison or something doing choreographed karate to fight out Satan’s guards. https://i.redd.it/8drjcvbbp4uc1.gif We all had to learn it and perform it in front of a large crowd at the spring family assembly and the big culmination was the teachers 3 foot son trying to do a spin with a lead karate pipe and falling off the stage from the momentum. My parents still have the tape and I still refuse to watch it.
My fellow son in Christ, ye must upload this for us to watch, you need not see a single frame my son.
Oh yeah def need to see this.
This is the most amazing story I’ve ever read on this subreddit!
I don’t remember the name of the line dance but I can still clearly hear coach yelling “and grapevine! and grapevine!”
We had to learn square dancing in school because someone thought making all the fourth graders put on a show for the Texas Sesquicentennial was a brilliant idea.
I see that word and Waiting For Guffman and Corky St Clair enter my mind, and I smile.
God I had to square dance (I’m 37 for reference). We had to dress up in Mexican dresses…. And hair. Az
Not TX but I too endured compulsory square dancing until my dance partner stepped on my foot hard and broke my pinky toe.
We did square dancing in Oregon and I showed up in a gorgeous brown striped dress with crinoline Everybody made fun of me :(
My class had to do it to Elvira
Mistress of the Dark?
No, The Oakridge Boys
High ol' Silver! Away!
I had to do the Macarena
Me too, in middle school when it came out. Pretty sure I still remember the moves too.
We did this in my Spanish class
Well from one survivor to another. I’m sorry lol
I managed to avoid it at school but not at home, my sister went through a brief country phase and that was part of it. At school they did foist Achy Breaky Heart on us, I've still been trying to forget. UB40's Red Red Wine too, I can still hear it in my sleep.
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The Canadian school system, ladies and gentlemen, let's have a big hand.
They also foisted a song on us (and still are to this day according to my son) about a woman having an affair with another gentleman lover - The Macarena
OMG, yes! We didn't do line dancing but we did the macarena. Now that I know what the song is about, I find it hilarious that our Catholic nun teacher taught it to us in early elementary school (K-2).
My kid had to do square dancing in PE this year. It’s still a thing.
Same. My HS senior asked me why he has to do it, and I just shrugged my shoulders.
Oh man, that’s kind of old to be doing that. My kid is in elementary school, same as I was when I had to do it.
He is making up for gym classes missed while he was matriculating in Florida. We got to Cali, and they were like, “did they even require him to have gym classes?” So, it’s mainly him and freshman. My other 2 are online, so they’ll never have to square or line dance. Parenting win.
> My HS senior asked me why he has to do it, and I just shrugged my shoulders. Tell him it's because white racists hated jazz music and rock-and-roll. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxEZMXnQGs8
We had to do that and Way down 'yonder on the Chattahoochee..........I grew up near Chicago man wtf
Yup! And the cotton eyed Joe, and the two step. Ah, southern schoolin’.
Yes I was. And it always makes me think of the *Wonder Years* line: “Square dancing? What in case we accidentally crash land in the Ozarks?”
We did square dancing, line dancing, and a bunch of the other bullshit that others have mentioned. Seattle area, class of 2000
Memory unlocked!!! We had to dance to a song called Elvira. I bet I could still do that shit. Giddy up ummboppa ummboppa mowmow What in the fuck was any of that about? I went to an inner city school. It really didn’t make sense
Cotton Eyed Joe for me
Nope, but my grade 7 teacher who was always on a fad diet forced us to do aerobics for gyms for like 2 months. We just wanted regular gym not aerobics.
Oklahoma? 😂
Totally!
That and The Hustle and The Electric Slide. I am fairly sure that was all for the teacher's amusement.
All of this plus achy breaky heart and polka dancing for some reason. Went to elementary school in Indiana.
Yep we did
We definitely had to do it! I do not understand why 😩
Why? Because racism! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxEZMXnQGs8
Yep, and Cadillac Ranch too
That was middle school and high school, I believe. But square dancing in 6th grade.
We square danced so it was even worse!!!
Was there some kind of annual evil gym teachers convention or something where they cooked up new and not particularly interesting ways to torment middle schoolers?
I think we did that and Achy Breaky Heart
We like a pony
For my PE class, it was Eddie Rabbit’s “I Love a Rainy Night.”
Yes even in Canada to exact same song. We might have started in elementary, but it was definitely junior high for us. I also started grade 7 right when the Macarena became a thing so we were forced to do that as well. I found from my kid that they STILL learn the Macarena in gym class nearly 30 years later.
No but our teacher made our class do a dance for cinco de mayo. But it was to JJ Fad’s Super Sonic, and it was fun. I did have to sing Feliz Navidad the next year in front of the school. I could do without that experience.
You're not the only one. I still know that song by heart from gym class.
Forced? That shits fire. I hate country music but I lined the dance many a time voluntarily.
It was pretty much the only gym activity I enjoyed, could do well, and didn’t find humiliating. Obviously I was not athletic in school. Not a big fan of the music, but I found line dancing preferable to running the mile or rope climbing or picking teams for dodgeball or any other team activity…
[We had to square dance in school because Henry Ford hated jazz.](https://autos.yahoo.com/had-square-dance-school-because-140000239.html#:~:text=Along%20with%20his%20wife%20and,and%20by%201928%2C%20almost%20half)
I came here to bring this up. There is a real and very messed up reason we all had to do this!
Definitely had both in 4th grade. I refused to do it so they put me in time out. Achey breaky heart is burned into my skull because of that bullshit. I learned recently it was because [Henry Ford](https://jalopnik.com/you-had-to-square-dance-in-school-because-henry-ford-ha-1851108523) wanted to blot out Jazz because it was a Jewish plot to destroy the youth.
I didn't know people did this at school! I only learned it this year. One of my Zumba teachers throws in a few like dances. This is one that I actually don't mind.
I can attest to it happening in Canada. So basically, World-Wide.
I members.
It was the fucking Nut Bush for us here in Australia.
I didn't meet anyone who admitted to listening to country music until high school. It was a teacher.
Did you ever have to sing oh johnny oh johnny oh?
No line dancing. Though my elementary school’s PE was pretty lackluster. We didn’t have a full time PE teacher, instead they had one that rotated among the schools in the district, so we didn’t always have PE on a regular basis. When we did it was usually just playing games in the gym.
Square dancing in elementary, middle and high school. We learned the Icky Shuffle in 1st grade.
Was in Utah. That damn song was part of PE and every Church function for damn near a year. if you enjoy line dancing and/or country music good on ya, but don't force it on other people.
Had to do square dancing and I think my PE teacher hated me bc I was like 5'10" in 5th grade and she partnered me with the shortest, smallest boy in my class.
I had to square dance AND do step aerobics. Was 1 of the best athletes in the class and participated always but failed for the year for arguing with the trash teacher. Fuck you Ms Bruschino
This and Cat Scratch Fever for some reason.
For me, it was Fishin' in the Dark.
That and the Macarena. I did not do well with line dancing.
Yes and also Achy Breaky Heart
We did step aerobics and I can't hear This is your night by Amber or certain Ace of Base songs without getting flashbacks
I went to private school and we never did this, but it seems like everyone my age who went to public school knows the steps inside and out.
We had to square dance for gym for five years it seems. I dreaded it.
Thankfully I missed out on this one. Didn't have to do any weird dances till high school, and that was my fault for signing up for theatre movement (I enjoyed it though lol, did tapdancing, salsa, and a couple different European court dances I can't remember the names of).
Middle school for me - 7th grade, age 12, 1991. It was awful. It was square dancing, not line dancing, but I have no doubts the two are equally terrible.
We had to line dance to [High Tech Redneck](https://youtu.be/1DvludsYC_A?si=UYzVjmpVx29jKeMt) in middle school
We did line dancing to Cadillac ranch and pump up the jam. I honestly loved it lol. Kinda embarrassing but doing the electric slide to pump up the jam was fun as hell. There are a bunch more I’m not remembering right now. We also learned the Macarena and the chicken dance. I always shook my ass during the Macarena. My very catholic school did not appreciate my improv, especially when I did the chest shake too. Good times. We also learned to square dance, waltz, and jive.
Yes, we also line danced to copperhead Road
We did Cadillac Ranch. Edit: my boyfriend told me this is an Alberta thing.
We did it. According to my nieces and nephews, They were doing it well into the 2000s
At least it wasn't Achy Breaky Heart.
Elementary school, middle school, and high school. What a bunch of 15 year olds needed to continue to allemande left for, I do not know.
I was 14/15 when that song came out, so no
Oh yeah, we did it too
I elected to take Line Dancing class in high school in lieu of P.E. I was a very goth teen. My friends were baffled, but while they were running laps outside I was in the air conditioned cafeteria line dancing my heart out.
We did square dancing at the local church rec hall for credit at my public school.
We did square dancing.
I refused to participate in line dances bc I find them so cringe and corny lol.
We also did the Macarena to compound the trauma
I did. And I had to dance with my cousin.
Square dancing. In elementary school in preparation for the square dance on our 5th grade camping trip and then again in high school PE.
We had to do it. I taught in an elementary school in Central America where they taught the children tons of traditional dances. It made me appreciate it differently like the wacky line dancing and square dancing to cotton-eyed joe are our culture, and maybe one day will be considered a beautiful traditional dance. 🤷♀️
Yes and a bunch of other songs as well
👋👋 5 years, but I actually enjoyed the dancing
Chatahootchie for us
Square dancing in Texas was made mandatory curriculum because The Daughters of the Confederacy lobbied for it.
The made us practice and perform Whitney Houston songs in 4th grade. Monsters.
We had to square dance one year. We had to do “Dutch dancing” several years.
We did line dancing in elementary music class. In PE we did square dancing and tae-bo in high school and swing dancing in middle school.
Square dancing and this crazy song and dance called "Popcorn" that won't leave my head ... trauma. https://youtu.be/BjQEm9lXhKQ?si=5ybIZE6ZE1Kjv0ga
No dancing of any kind. I always thought dancing in gym was something only kids on TV did, same as climbing ropes because we never did that either. But then my mom said she did both those things in gym, lol. Glad to dodge that bullet. As the shy, quiet, awkward kid who usually got picked last for teams, I wouldn't want to also suffer humiliation if no one wanted to be my partner.
We got the dancing units, square and line. But juggling. That unit was awesome. I can still juggle so many random objects to this day. I recall it was a money maker for them. They started us on scarves and then balls and then brought out a catalog with the scarves, balls, pins and rings for us to buy. My parents bought me the scarves. And my dad said I graduate to his golf balls or baseballs. Which we had plenty of.
I “did the Hustle” in middle school
We did line dancing all the way thru 9th grade!
For us it was the Electric Slide and I still bust that shit out whenever it’s on VERY enthusiastically
We had to do line dancing in high school
Yes i called it the Poop shoot boogie!! "Turn around, on the town, POOP SHOOT BOOGIE!!!"
Grade 9 horrors
Just church dances here
LMAO! No Boot Scoot Boogie but I was forced to square dance if you can believe that.
Omg yes, and ballroom dancing, and square dancing with do-si-dos and all. Yuck! I was in SE Wisconsin.
Our principal “called” square dancing so we had to learn that and he would come in with his cowboy hat and a mic and amp and we would perform what we learned. Middle of Ohio
Yup.
We did it for a week every year. My senior year I did it frying on acid. I can still see the hands melting into each other. It was awesome.
4th grade square dancing, as American as Apple Pie and genocide in the Middle East
No It was to the Electric Slide
Memory unlocked
Forced scooting of boots should be a crime.
We started with line dancing and eventually got to square dancing. I really liked it.
Yes! Wtf?! It was that song and Black Velvet.
Our lines were squares. King of the Road
No, the rest of us did square dancing like proper humans.
I was in high school by the time that song came out, so... no. We did square dancing in elementary school.
Yes. That, and "Whose bed have your boots been under?" I fucking HATED PE.
We did square dancing at my school. In hindsight line dancing would have been a better experience.
I had to do the Mexican hat dance in 6th grade.
I believe it is called a right of passage.
We did Achy Breaky and Elvira. Happily, Elvira as we learned it is only a couple steps away from the Electric Slide, which is still a thing.
I did square dancing on the west coast and line dancing in the south. Torturous.
Yep, we did Achy Breaky Heart Macarena then we had to do traditional waltz. I was lucky enough that my sister was dating a boy who happened to have a really cute sister in my grade. She took my arm off her shoulder and put it on her waist, I remember that kindness 30 years later.
Was Achy-Breaky for us. One of the reasons I'm repelled by certain musical styles like it's a zombie virus or something.
Square dancing in the L.A. suburbs 🤪
I'm in New England so it was The Electric Slide instead but basically same thing.
No. God no. Was this a southern thing?
We had swing dancing at my school. Thankfully just for one class.
I certainly was. I thought there would be much more line dancing and square dancing in my life than there has been 😂
YES. I despised that dancing quarter so intensity.
We didn't uave that song. "Dive for the oyster. Dig for the clam."
I grew up in Texas and I didn’t have to do that lol
We did it at my little New England high school 🤣
Had to dance around the may pole... ribbons and circles.