Totally up the pole

I am going thinking of creating a section on the blog called "Didn't think it through" or "Car Crash Decisions" or something like that. In fact, all suggestions for a title are welcome.

The first entrants will be this lot http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/7859239.stm at a school in Devon, who brought in a troupe of pole dancers to perform for the students, aged 14 up.

It may be that, as Mrs Sam Remmer from Art of Dance says, "Pole dancing is appropriate for young teenagers at school as it is a mix of dance moves and gymnastics and is excellent for fitness."

But there are times, and this is one of them, when you wonder why nobody took an extra second to think, "You know what? This could cause a lot of trouble we don't need."

Maybe there's a new respectability to pole dancing. Maybe, even, we'll see it at the 2012 Olympics - given their proximity to Essex I can think of no better opportunity to untroduce it as a competitive event.

But why didn't somebody at South Devon College in Paignton realise what they were letting themselves in for?