Kids’ waltz rules revised after parents’ worries about passions, low grades
The Associated Press
SHANGHAI, China - Chinese educators are toning down plans to teach students to waltz after parents said they worried about puppy love and falling grades, local media reported Monday.
The revised dance steps allow students to dance by themselves or in large groups, the Xinhua News Agency said, without explaining exactly how that would work.
SHANGHAI, China - Chinese educators are toning down plans to teach students to waltz after parents said they worried about puppy love and falling grades, local media reported Monday.
The revised dance steps allow students to dance by themselves or in large groups, the Xinhua News Agency said, without explaining exactly how that would work.
“They don’t have to dance with specific partners, which will be more easily accepted by both students and their parents,” Yin Guochen, an official with the State General Administration of Sports, was quoted as saying.
Xinhua also quoted an Education Ministry official as saying another version would see students organized into groups of four and changing partners with each song.
“This way, the risk of young love would be lowered,” a ministry official, Yang Guiren, was quoted as saying.
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