The Los Angeles Times reported that the dance, which looks like "hopscotch on crack", is usually performed to fast-tempo hip-hop and rap music, and has caught on among teenagers nationwide.
But educators in Los Angeles fear that allowing students to do the dance at the annual school dance will glamorise gang life and could trigger retaliation from rivals such as the Bloods, even if most youngsters C-walking are not in the Crips, or any gang at all. Teenagers say the dance will cause a fight only if performed in the wrong neighbourhood and while flashing hand signs. They dance it for fun and consider it a badge of honour to master its complicated moves. Rap stars popularised it - hopping on tiptoes from foot to foot in a circular pattern with knees bent.
The dance is just one fad banned by schools. Many schools have ruled out grinding, "freakin'" or other sexually explicit dance moves. Others have banned music with obscenities or sexually explicit words.
But educators in Los Angeles fear that allowing students to do the dance at the annual school dance will glamorise gang life and could trigger retaliation from rivals such as the Bloods, even if most youngsters C-walking are not in the Crips, or any gang at all. Teenagers say the dance will cause a fight only if performed in the wrong neighbourhood and while flashing hand signs. They dance it for fun and consider it a badge of honour to master its complicated moves. Rap stars popularised it - hopping on tiptoes from foot to foot in a circular pattern with knees bent.
The dance is just one fad banned by schools. Many schools have ruled out grinding, "freakin'" or other sexually explicit dance moves. Others have banned music with obscenities or sexually explicit words.
