Students at a kindergarten in southern China started the new school year with an unconventional presentation: pole-dancing. The back-to-school ceremony held Monday at Xinshahui Kindergarten, located in the city of Shenzen, included multiple scantily clad female performers as well as a pole-dancer, the BBC reports citing the Southern Metropolis Daily newspaper. “The goal was to get the kids to learn more about one variety of dance,” said the school’s principal, Lai Rong, according to the New York Times. Some parents were incensed, and criticized the judgement of school administrators on Sina Weibo, China’s popular Twitter-like microblogging platform. “I really don’t want to know what the headmaster was thinking,” one Weibo user wrote, according to the BBC.