Oh yeah, we did that too. But my parents went and did this willingly. And also used very terrible country accents. It was just a god awful time in our countries history.
I feel like the gym teachers were just punking us, with the square dancing and stuff. Like, they had to think it was hilarious. They'd go home, pop a beer, and be like oh yeah, I made like 150 awkward 5th graders square dance today, that shit was funny as fuck.