Kyra

While the intention of putting DDR games in our elementary school's curriculum is to be beneficial health wise, I feel there are better ways to implement health and exercise through dancing. Whatever happened to good old fashioned dancing? I for one would prefer to square dance rather than stepping front, back, right, and left. You can't take DDR steps home with you to show off to your parents; it would look absolutely ridiculous. We don't have enough culture these days. What's wrong with tap, ballet, and jazz? Those are great ways to be fit and learn something at the same time. I loved the dance section we had in our P.E. class back in my high school at Naperville North in Illinois. We did tap, hip hop, square dancing, and also had students contribute to the class what types of dance they knew. I, for example, received intense training in ballet so I had the chance to teach ballet to my fellow classmates. (Believe it or not they cooperated) It may not have been their favorite type of class, but they were being educated in what is lost to many today. In Europe ballet is a prestigious art that everyone is educated in. In the states we frown upon boys and belittle them for taking dance lessons. We are ignorant in the U.S. to how difficult, beautiful, and precise of an art dance is. What kind of society is that? What's wrong with being cultured?