Posted on 05/17/2023 8:14:49 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
A Temecula mother has complained that her 15-year-old daughter was made to read a sexually explicit play in drama class and is calling for a policy to prevent such instances in the future.
Tracy Nolasco said her daughter, a Temecula Valley High School sophomore, had to read “Angels in America,” a Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Tony Kushner. The play, set in New York City in 1985, explores the AIDS epidemic as well as religion, race, politics, and homosexuality.
Nolasco on Tuesday night, May 16, told the Temecula Valley school board that the drama describes sexual activity, sexual violence and uses profanity and was inappropriate for minors, according to a video of the meeting. She added that the play also depicts unprotected sex and the taking of pills that cause hallucinations. Her daughter’s class also includes freshmen, Nolasco said.
Temecula Valley Unified School District spokesperson James Evans said in a Wednesday, May 17, email that he learned of the allegation Tuesday night.
“We take concerns like this seriously and are currently doing our due diligence regarding these allegations,” Evans wrote. “Human Resources is involved and is in the middle of investigating this matter.”
Nolasco told the board that, after reading about 60 pages, her distraught daughter came to her.
“She said to me, ‘Mom, I can’t read this. I just can’t, but I have to. I don’t want to fail,’” Nolasco told the board.
Murrieta pastor Tim Thompson, who is affiliated with a PAC that helped elect five conservative Christians to southwest Riverside County school boards in November, told the school board that the district needs a policy to stop this from happening on campuses.
(Excerpt) Read more at pressenterprise.com ...
Parent’s comments to TVUSD School Board at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM4l7DlzR_Q
Pastor’s comments to TVUSD School Board at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MwXM-aJ1Dg
Full article archived at: https://archive.vn/44znc
Who vets these materials?
Why aren’t they being charged with laws involving such
materials and minor children?
At a certain age, adults should have access to these
materials, but it sure isn’t a must for our school systems.
I say suck it up, snow flake. I had to read the Dairy of Anne Frank in elementary school where she writes about her sexual feelings and m*st*rb*tion.
Why are parents having to dig these out one by one to present
to school boards who find them so repugnant they won’t let
parents read them out loud at board meetings?
If adults can’t hear those words in public, why should kids
be reading them at all?
I am old enough to remember when Temecula was all horse ranches & farms & rural properties
Me,too. When we drove though Temecula in 1969, it was a cluster of gas stations--and nothing else.
What a bad mother she is...wanting her daughter to remain chaste and not give in to the joys of being groomed for being used and abused
“Human Resources is involved and is in the middle of investigating this matter.”
HR??? What the heck for? It should be in the principal’s hands and the school board providing oversight. The wokesters in HR won’t find anything wrong.
Sure you did.
Actually sounds kind of tame. When I was a teenager, books that I read on my own outside of class assignments included Cornelius Ryan's The Last Battle (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1966) which features plenty of gun violence and Total Terror: An Expose of Genocide in the Baltics by Albert Kalme (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1951), which describes mass murder and torture in graphic detail.
bump to watch later.
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Lord forbid you make them read classics
An appropriate book at an older age NOT elementary school
I had to read the Dairy of Anne Frank in elementary school...
Sure you did.
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Exactly.
Angels in America is quite different. Its sort of a screed against ‘homophobia’ and religion. Sort of because the story is a bit incoherent. Its about AIDs infected gay people and weird creepy angels who dance around and sing about sex and their genitals or something. Dunno it was written like some bizarre fever dream with little if any plot but the gay aids infected part made it hip apparently.
There is also your obligatory evil closeted gay conservative token character. And good gay protagonists that ironically are a nogo for today’s world because they’re written in the 90s stereotypical way.
That looks like a prison.
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