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This is the Type of Thing You’d Expect to See in Florida: Floriduh! Goes International!!!

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We never had this at the Hillel School of Tampa…

A Chinese kindergarten welcomed back students back from summer break with a bizarre pole dancing performance on Monday, sparking outrage among parents.

Footage of the incident, posted to Weibo, shows a woman dressed in risqué clothing, dancing around a pole on a low stage while three- to six-year-old children and their parents watched from below in southeastern China.

After the incident, the Shenzhen Xinshahui Kindergarten, in Bao’an District, issued an apology to parents and students explaining that the performance was intended to “lighten up the atmosphere.”

“We apologize for not putting more consideration into the planning of the dance performance and for causing a bad experience among students and parents,” Lai Rong, the pre-school’s principal, said in the apology.

On its official Weibo account, the Shenzhen Education Bureau said that pole dancing for children is “not appropriate” and confirmed that the ministry will investigate the incident. “The education bureau believes it is not appropriate to arrange pole dancing performances for children in kindergarten,” it said.

The authority has also called for Lai to be dismissed as the kindergarten’s director.

Ya think?!?!?!?

This is the type of thing you expect to happen in Florida, not China. Apparently the Floriduh! is spreading…

Stay flexible!

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  1. 1.

    ruemara

    I feel so confused about what they thought they’d accomplish.

    We are all now very confused 3-6 year olds.

  4. 4.

    Suzanne

    The education bureau believes it is not appropriate to arrange pole dancing performances for children in kindergarten.

    Words that I never thought would have to be written.
    Rotating tag?

  5. 5.

    SRW1

    Maybe on extremely close contact ‘Florida’ is infectious and somebody from Florida has recently been to Shenzhen and in extremely close contact with the poor pole dancer.

  9. 9.

    Adam L Silverman

    @NotMax: I have a good friend and colleague, a retired USAFR colonel with a PhD who was an Air Attache at the US Embassy in Beijing – an old China hand as they say. I forwarded this story to him and this was his response:

    I told them I wanted Pole (as in Polish) dancing!

  14. 14.

    Roger Moore

    @Yutsano:

    That’s…not how naming rights work usually.

    Yeah, but we’re already in Bizarro World, as shown by the fact our President is the one who was less well qualified and received fewer votes. Why is it so surprising that naming rights would work backward here, too.

  18. 18.

    Duane

    The children wouldn’t have felt it inappropriate if it wasn’t pointed out as such. Now you get to explain to a 5 year old why it’s wrong.

  19. 19.

    cain

    So apparently out in Durango, CO there is a street – Florida St, but is pronounced “Floreeda”.. sheesh. Of course, now everything in that town is suspect. :P

  20. 20.

    NotMax

    Truly a tragedy.

    ‘Incalculable loss’ as massive fire tears through Brazil’s 200-year old National Museum

    Follow-up.

    Anger smouldered in Brazil on Monday after a fire destroyed the National Museum, a cherished historical repository that lacked a sprinkler system and which had suffered years of financial neglect.

    Outside the entrance to the elegant park that houses the 200-year-old former Imperial Palace, police in riot gear shot tear gas into a small, angry crowd that tried to enter, live TV images showed.

    The rising tensions reflect anger over the destruction of the much-loved yet dilapidated museum, which suffered from declining federal funding. The fire stirred emotions in Brazil, whose angry electorate is reeling from a frail economy, widespread graft and rising violence ahead of an unpredictable presidential election in October.
    [snip]
    The National Museum’s collection ranged from archeological finds to historical memorabilia.

    The museum, which is tied to the Rio de Janeiro federal university and the education ministry, was founded in 1818 and housed several landmark collections, including Egyptian artifacts and the oldest human fossil found in Brazil. Source

  25. 25.

    Ninedragonspot

    Apparently the school had closed out the previous academic year with a ten-day salute to the military, replete with elaborate displays of armaments.

    Tough finding a reliable school for your kid these days.

  26. 26.

    Amir Khalid

    @Adam L Silverman:
    Congratulations! Your Florida Man propaganda posts are achieving their intended effect! First, the kindergarten teachers of the so-called People’s Republic! And then, the gullible masses!!

  29. 29.

    Platonailedit

    BBC

    The founder of the Haqqani militant network has died after several years of illness, the Afghan Taliban has announced.

    Jalaluddin Haqqani was a significant militant figure in Afghanistan and had close ties to both the Taliban and al-Qaeda.

    The Haqqani network has been behind many of the co-ordinated attacks on Afghan and Nato forces in recent years.

    His son is believed to have taken over control of the group in 2001.

    There were no details in the statement about the date nor the place of Haqqani’s death.

  34. 34.

    Mnemosyne

    @rikyrah:

    I think the hats are to show that they’re the same cats on different days, not just clips of the same day. Because most cats will eventually get bored and stop playing along, even for treats.

  36. 36.

    Mnemosyne

    @opiejeanne:

    Well, sure, but the cats don’t care about the hats being different. Only humans care about that. So obviously having them in different hats for each video was an attempt to make the videos obviously different from each other.

    I did like how the black-and-white cat that looks like our Charlotte almost refused to perform with the banana hat on, but the lure of the treats and the competition with the other cat meant s/he couldn’t resist. ?

  38. 38.

    PaulWartenberg

    wait wait, back up to the bit about Chinese kindergartners getting greeted by POLE DANCERS.

    In Florida we NEVER sank that low.

    WE insisted the insanely low-paid teachers forced to work part-time as pole dancers kept their second jobs off the books.

    Our state is nice that way.

    /sarcasm, am truthfully enraged that our teachers are so poorly paid most of them HAVE to find a second job to keep roofs over their heads

  39. 39.

    somedude

    I just moved to Shenzhen to teach high school, and this does not seem a common practice here. Rumor says that teacher is looking for a nce job, but not sure how reliable that is.

    Guangdong Province (which includes Shenzhen) is the southeastern mos province of the mainland (excluding Hainan Island), which does seem to make it the Florida of China. The snakes and gators are more likely to be eaten though

  42. 42.

    The Pale Scot

    @cain: Well NYC has HOWston street, and down here FL watch the TV news people hem and haw over nîggér rd. Which is somewhere south of Betty if I remember

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