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No, just square dancing. Nothing else.
That was my grade school experience as well. Even as a child I was confused by how much square dancing they made us do and absolutely no other forms of dance.
It was a PE activity in my school.
Yes, it's truly wild how often things in the United States often originate from a fascistic or cultish source. Daylight savings time, cereal, etc. granted it's been almost 40 years. I don't know if they still do it. But they did back in the '70s and '80s for sure. But with all the satanic panic of the '90s I doubt they started pushing it any less LOL.
How does DST tie in?
Initially it was called war time. And it was even used even in Europe from WWI through WWII. But post WWII most abandoned it. Including the United States. It had nothing to do with farmers. They're actually one of the groups most against it.
It was standardized in the United States in 1966 at the behest of wealthy retailers who lobbied the government. Believing the extra hour of daylight correlated in some meaningful way to increased sales. It didn't. But that was the rationale.
The most recent changes to DST, pushing it to the first of November. Happened in the late 2010's. Largely pushed for by candy makers/retailers, again claiming it would boost sales and somehow be safer. (Halloween)
That's sad, in my elementary school we learned square dancing, but also the Mexican Hat Dance and Tinikling and the Polka, I can't remember if there were others since it was back in the 1960s. I think learning the Charleston would have been fun! When I taught 2nd grade, dance wasn't part of PE but for a countries around the world assembly I taught my class some Russian (and, now I know better, some of it was Ukrainian) folk dances I had learned from my Russian ballet teacher. They got a kick out of it.