Winnipeg Free Press: There are still no answers about why staff at Churchill High School didn’t immediately step in to stop the performance in front of at least 100 students, or why it took two days for the school to take action.
Students at Churchill High School said the dance performed by the two teachers at a Feb. 17 pep rally was clearly planned.
It was supposed to be part of a teacher dance-off, where four teams of teachers competed as part of the school’s spirit week.
“Everyone else was dancing and then they just stopped and watched, but it was super funny at first and then it went way too far,” said Taelan Johnston, 16, a Grade 11 student.
Taelan described how phys-ed teacher Chrystie Fitchner pulled up a chair and sat down. She and the male teacher, who the Free Press has been unable to identify but students said is new to the school, then began their risqué routine. The female teacher throws her hands back as he straddles and grinds against her, and then pretends to perform oral sex. Students said she even “paid” him with fake money.
“She was shoving money down his pants,” said Jayme Wallen, a 15-year-old Grade 10 student. “They just got carried away.”
The dance, students said, lasted for about a minute and a half, while other teachers looked on, judging the competition.
“They lost points,” Grade 9 student Erin Adey confirmed, and they didn’t win the dance-off.
Even though students said they don’t think the principal was present to witness the act, there was eventually some intervention after a minute and a half of dancing.
“They (the judges) did stop it, because they were like ‘Oh that’s enough, that’s enough. You guys are done,’” said Taelan.
