The dances will go on for these defiant dads and daughters despite the Department of Education’s new guidelines over gender-specific events.

“This politically correct stuff has got to stop,” said Thomas Tirotta, 43, who took his 10-year old Lila to the father-daughter dance at PS 38 on Staten Island Friday night.

“It’s something that’s been around for a long time,” Tirotta said. “Let the people enjoy it and if you don’t like it, don’t go.”

The DOE ordered schools to “eliminate” any “gender-based” practices like father-daughter dances last year. The DOE said Friday schools that want to host parent-child events must ensure they’re gender-neutral and open to all students and caregivers.

But three schools including PS 38 said they still planned to hold daddy-daughter dances and a fourth has one on its online calendar.

“They’re trying to take away from the dads, from the good fathers. … It’s all political now,” said Raul Mejia, who added taking his 5-year-old daughter Isabelle to the PS 38 dance was important because “I want to start her young, so she can know how a guy is supposed to treat her.”

DOE said PS 38 was given guidance to update the event to welcome everyone.

The Midland Beach elementary school listed the shin-dig as a father-daughter dance on its website and confirmed in a phone call that it was holding a father-daughter dance. But it also dubbed the soiree a “Valentine’s Day Dance” in an online calendar, with a stock photo of a little girl dancing on top of a man’s shoes.

The enthusiastic dads and daughters knew exactly what they were celebrating Friday night.

“I like that I get to hang out with my dad because usually he comes home very late and I never get to talk to him that much,” said PS 38 student Gabriela, who attended with dad Elvis Lagrange, 45. “It gives you a chance to be with your daughters,” he agreed.

Luis Rodriguez took his three daughters Lillyanna,, Violet and Dahlia — all named after flowers. “I get to spend time with my daddy and dance with my baby sisters!” 8-year-old Lillyanna said.

PS 3 on Staten Island will have a “Father Daughter Dance-Enchanted Ball” on March 3, according to the school. DOE said this is an off-site, non-school related event sponsored by the PTA.

PS 209 in Queens also plans a “Father Daughter Dance” for March 8. And PS 83 in the Bronx still has a “Father/Daughter Dance” on its online calendar for June 6, as well as a May 19 “Mother and Son Field Day” and a “Mother/Daughter Spa Night” on April 27.

DOE said it’s consulting with the schools to ensure these events are inclusive if they are held on school grounds.

When the DOE becomes aware of events that don’t follow the gender guidelines, education officials work with schools to ensure changes are made “as quickly as possible,” spokeswoman Miranda Barbot said.

“We are sending a reminder to schools about the guidelines that are in place to ensure school-related events are inclusive of all students and families,” Barbot said.

The DOE’s new Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Student Guidelines issued last March 1 told schools to end all gender-based practices that don’t serve a clear educational purpose.

The policy update prompted Staten Island’s PS 65 to abruptly scrap its traditional father-daughter dance this month.

Confused parents at the Stapleton school slammed political correctness when the dance was postponed for March 2 and opened to kids and caregivers of any gender.

While there’s no DOE policy explicitly banning father-daughter dances, they can be “triggering” for some students or parents, according to Jared Fox, the department’s LGBT community liaison.

Controversy over the dances appear to have spooked other schools.

A Friday night party at PS 63 in Queens was originally dubbed the “Daddy Daughter Dance” on the school’s Facebook page Jan. 19. But someone who answered the school’s main line this week corrected a caller to say the event was actually a “Sweetheart Dance.”