Taunting a young ballroom dancer?

[jon]

Interesting article here (http://www.pacificatribune.com/Stories/0,1413,92%257E3247%257E1935111,00.html) about a lawsuit against a Pacifica school by the father of a 12 year old ballroom dancer being taunted by his classmates. I wonder what the girls think of this kid?

[pygmalion]

I only skimmed the article, but I didn't see references to his being a ballroom dancer. I assume this must have been an ongoing case for a while.

Interesting. I don't want to assume anything, but given the sound of the last name, the boy's family may come from a country where ballroom dance is more acceptable for boys than it is in the US. Hmm.

[Porfirio Landeros]

I guess it depends where you live...

I never got made fun of for dancing when I was in high school, and I was on the football and wrestling teams, where Macho is supposed to rule.

In fact, one of the football players took ballet, and one of the wrestlers was on the school's hiphop performance team...

I guess I went to tollerant schools, or, people may have picked up that making fun of me for dancing was ineffective.

[twnkltoz]

I only skimmed the article, but I didn't see references to his being a ballroom dancer. I assume this must have been an ongoing case for a while.

Interesting. I don't want to assume anything, but given the sound of the last name, the boy's family may come from a country where ballroom dance is more acceptable for boys than it is in the US. Hmm.

It says it, about halfway down...that he's a champion ballroom dancer.

Really sad.

[pygmalion]

Here's an interesting article that's somewhat related. It's about three Russian brothers who study dance, but conceal it from their friends at school.

http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/7219-13.cfm