Ohio school tries to stop prom dirty dancing

NEWARK, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio high school may make its prom a nostalgic, slow-dance affair so there won’t be any dirty dancing this year.

Principal Wes Weaver says students have ignored previous pleas for no sexually suggestive “grinding” at the Licking Valley High School prom in Newark, 30 miles east of Columbus.

Weaver says the dancing has been so raunchy he has left past proms with a sick feeling in his stomach. He says the school has stopped music in the middle of songs, increased the number of chaperones and instituted a penalty box for dancers who took things too far, but none of that has cleaned things up.

The school is considering slow dancing only or a 1950s or ’60s theme for this year’s prom. Students say administrators are overreacting.