Thursday, February 3, 2022

Who's stupider - the Parents or the Principals?

 

A middle school in Manhattan has canceled its production of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice after some parents expressed concern over anti-Semitic themes and whether the material is appropriate for middle schoolers.    
The play was set to be performed by the seventh-grade drama students at 75 Morton, a popular middle school in Greenwich Village, but scrapped last month by the first-year principal without any warning. 
School sources told the New York Post there was a divide between parents at the school, with some calling for the play's cancellation and others wanting to open a dialogue about the themes of the play. 
The news of play's cancelation comes after a Tennessee school board scrapped the Holocaust-themed graphic novel Maus, voting unanimously to remove the Pulitzer Prize-winning book from its eighth-grade curriculum over a drawing of a nude woman, eight swear words and its 'not wise or healthy' content.  

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Here's one of my wife's new items made
 especially for Valentine's Day - 
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1 comment:

  1. Why not have an assembly and have the drama teacher and principal, counselor, whoever, on stage, give the play a rundown, ask the kids if it is something they could watch, if not why not? I know, it's just So Complicated to get to a reasonable answer.

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