Keeping School Dances safe and clean

School dances should be a place to have fun, socialize with friends, and celebrate a special occasion of the school year. It is the viewpoint of this DJ (me) that school dances should be kept at a PG-13 age appropriate level, and not an adult night club. Specific boundaries are recommended for how students are permitted to dance with each other. Adult chaperones are requested to monitor all dance areas.  

Teens have new hormones and emotions bursting and social skills and cognitive abilities are still developing. Thousands of choices are made every day beginning in the teen years. Most destructive habits start young. Many adults, I would argue, still do the things that they started doing as a teen when parents and adults weren't looking, such as smoking, drinking, drugs, sex, etc.  It can be argued that extremely sexual dancing can easily lead to accidentally sexual STDs, unwanted pregnancies, and further destructive choices and addictions. So it makes sense that school-sponsored, tax-payer funded dances do not allow teens to openly glorify sexually provocative behaviors right in plain view of school faculty and all their peers just because "kids will be kids." Measures should be taken to change the grinding and twerking sensation at many high school dances and encourage teens to show one another a level of respect and decency that will hopefully pay-off in the future.

So what specific dance moves should be tolerated at high school dances? I would suggest, students stay upright. Move and step how they like, but don't thrust and bounce private parts together like two dogs in heat.  Ladies may want to circle up with their guy partners behind them, with hands on hips. That's as far as it should go especially as friends, faculty, perhaps even some parents may be looking on. A majority of teens are not ready for the raunchy dancing anyway, and would much rather just dance around and have clean fun with their friends in a safe environment that celebrates their youthfulness and innocence. 

Simply prohibiting dirty dancing is not a quick fix of the bigger issues teens are facing. Right living cannot be legislated and be all about rules. Teens are young people who need loving, caring and patient adults who will pace with them through their difficult choices and rapid growth into adulthood.