60-Year-Old Teacher Shows Up Her Students During Unforgettable 'Uptown Funk' Dance Performance

Mar 02, 2020 by apost team

Age can be irrelevant. Nobody could have demonstrated this better than Shirley Clements, a high school P.E. teacher from North Surrey Secondary School in Canada did.

Shirley was getting ready for retirement in 2015 despite her love for teaching. She knew the time had come to move on. Instead of becoming melancholic, she made the decision to join her students for a yearly dance competition she started nineteen years previously.

Not only did she wow the school, she was then invited to perform the routine on "The Ellen DeGeneres show." 

This sixty-year-old woman was captured showing some spectacular moves to Bruno Mars's famous hit. Not only was this appreciated by the students and audience, it was reported on here at Global News, and Shirley was then asked to perform on The Ellen DeGeneres show.

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“It’s surreal, it’s totally surreal. You give something because you want to give a present to somebody and someone had said to me… that maybe you shouldn’t do the dance because people don’t know who you are. And I thought ‘well that’s it then. If I do this, they won’t forget’.”

The now-retired teacher said. 

At the end of the performance, she did something the majority of people could never accomplish, a spinning headstand. This was the moment Shirley became a legend. She ended her career with quite a bang. All of her students gathered around her to make sure she received every bit of hype she had earned.

There is nothing quite like a hip-hop competition to prove age is meaningless. Help make sure everyone enjoys the antics of this incredible teacher by passing this on to your friends and loved ones now!