A friend of my brother has kids who attend a high school (LaGrange Township HS) in suburban Chicago.
She sent him this email with a video clip link:
"At the end of today’s school assembly, the principal called on the teachers to begin assisting with loading the kids onto the buses to go home.
Instead, the teachers came out onto the gym floor and surprised the kids with a terrific dance medley of Thriller, Bad Romance, Single Ladies, Don’t Stop Believing, It Takes Two, I Gotta Feeling.
You know the kids will never forget this one!! Click below for the You Tube video…"
That’s one of the most random and odd things I’ve ever seen. The class reunions in a couple of decades time are going to be dominated by this topic, I feel.
I’m having a hard time getting a good definition of a flash mob. I mean, I’ve used the term, but I apparently don’t quite know what it means. Is the problem that they were essentially on stage?
I think so. I mean, sure it was a surprise (and fun) but it wasn’t like a sudden dance number breaking out in a train station or something along those lines. A dance number at a big assembly? Not, in and of itself, an unlikely event.
Flash mobs are when people plan to gather at a particular place and time and perform some kind of act, which could be dance, but might be something pointless. Often, these people have never met to discuss the event in real life. It’s not a term used for more traditional forms of gathering in public, like this event.
I like the principal in the middle. He was very confused but totally in to it!