Pole-dancing shock for kindergarten kids

A KINDERGARTEN principal in southern China has reportedly been sacked after welcoming students back to the first day of term with a sultry pole-dancing display.

Parents attending the welcome ceremony with their young children in Shenzhen were stunned when a pole dancer clad in black hot pants and heels began to gyrate around a steel pipe.

Their complaints prompted a rebuke from the education bureau of Bao’an district, which took to social media to warn kindergartens against inappropriate behaviour.

“The District Education Bureau believes that it is not appropriate to perform pole dancing for children in kindergartens,” it pointed out.

Video footage of the racy performance shows young children watching impassively as the dancer spins and falls to the floor while shaking her long hair.

Michael Standaert, an American writer whose children attend the school, narrated the story on Twitter.

He said he and his wife had already had concerns about the kindergarten before it closed for the summer, when the children had been subjected to 10 days of “military activities”.

When the family returned after the summer break, they were surprised to see adverts for a pole-dancing school. Then came the performance. “Who would think this is a good idea?” tweeted Mr Standaert. “The principal hung up on my wife after saying it was ‘international and good exercise’. OK, yeah for adults maybe, but not three- to six-year-old kids.”