'YMCA' Banned From School Talent Show

A Fargo, ND first-grade class won’t be participating in the school's talent show after a concerned parent called a planned act “racist.”

According to inforum.com, the students were supposed to be performing the song “Y.M.C.A.” during Bennett Elementary School’s May talent show.

For the show, a first-grade teacher asked parents to have their kids wear clothes like the Village People, the group that recorded the hit song in the 1970s. Some would come dressed as a policeman, a cowboy, a biker dude, a construction worker or a Native American.

But one mom, Elaine Bolman, said asking her daughter and her classmates to dress up like an Indian is offensive.

The Bennett Elementary staff pulled plans for “Y.M.C.A.”