Quite correct!
Posted on 10/11/2013 6:48:19 PM PDT by massmike
CAREFREE, Ariz. – Some parents of students at Cactus Shadows High School are outraged over a play that has students acting out sexual encounters with a goat, and using vulgar sexual expressions.
Other parents of students in teacher Andrew Cupo’s advanced drama class believe the concerns are overblown, and resent parents who questioned their children about the sexually explicit play without their permission.
Parents attended the governing board meeting for the Cave Creek Unified School District Tuesday and shared about two hours of public comment on the play “The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?” by Edward Albee, which revolves around a character who falls in love with a goat and has sex with it.
“Elissa Ericson, head of the fine arts department at Cactus Shadows, said that Cupo had warned the students several times about the explicit content and offered several opportunities to opt out and study an alternative script,” AZCentral.com reports. “In addition, parents must sign a syllabus at the beginning of the semester that includes a statement that ‘students may be exposed to stories or characters that express views and beliefs that differ from their own or those of their parents.’”
One of the complaining parents said he signed off on the syllabus because he assumed the governing board had vetted the material. Guy McAtee said “having signed an acknowledgement of the course curriculum is in no way authorization for material of this nature to be approved,” according to the news site.
“I’m sure that since it’s appropriate material, that the language I’m about to use will be approved by the school board,” he said before reading several sexually vulgar passages from the play in the public meeting.
Some students and parents told the governing board they were offended by the way parents who oppose the material took matters into their own hands.
“ … We were asked what we thought of Mr. Cupo teaching bestiality. Ironic that they spoke to us of bestiality without the consent of our parents, the same act they condemn Mr. Cupo for,” said Jacob Emnett, one of the students questioned by parents and the school resource officer the day before.
“My daughter was not negatively impacted by the play but she was negatively impacted by being asked in the office if she acted out this play and things she never would have thought of,” parent Sharon Smith told the board, according to AZCentral.com.
Only one student, Emily McAtee, spoke against the play at the Tuesday board meeting.
“I never took the opportunity of the other script so that I didn’t seem discriminated against,” she said. “I understand Mr. Cupo’s point of what is metaphorically said within the script, but when we’re rehearsing these things and saying these things out loud, we’re not thinking of the metaphorical things, we’re thinking of who we’re trying to portray as the character.”
Superintendent Debbi Burdick told AZCentral.com the results of the investigation could yield a wide range of possible responses from the district, from reinstating the teacher with no repercussions, to including a disciplinary letter in his file, to termination.
Why isn’t necrophilia on the list?
More homosexual books for children
in that same school. . .
From the Estabrook Elementary School website, description of two other books sent home in “diversity bookbags”. (Note: since the Parker incident, many pages and links have mysteriously disappeared from that website. We found these two.)
FIRST GRADE: Best, Best Colors by Eric Hoffman
Description: Nate has trouble deciding what his favorite color is, but his two lesbian mamas help him realize that he does not have to have a best, best color.
FIFTH GRADE: My Two Uncles, by Judith Vigna
Description: Elly’s grandfather has trouble accepting the fact his son is gay. Shows the different feelings that exist within a family regarding a gay family member from a child’s point of view.
Suggested activities for families:
Pretend you were the niece or nephew of Uncle Ned. Write a response to Uncle Ned’s letter.
At the party, Elly’s grandfather made a speech and Elly’s parents cried. Why do you think they cried?
Do you think Elly’s two uncles will be invited to the next family gathering? Why or why not?
Do you think Elly’s two uncles should be invited to the next family function? Why or why not?
http://www.massresistance.org/docs/parker/diversity_book.html
Quite correct!
Yes, probably. I grew up on the Upper West Side, and while Who’s Afraid, etc., wasn’t set among the Columbia professoriate, it could have been.
However, everything he wrote after that seemed to me to be basically a rehashing of his theme (domestic unhappiness and hypocrisy) which itself was not a whole lot different from earlier post-war fiction such as Man in a Gray Flannel Suit, etc.
Baby boomers are blamed for being cynical and amoral and a million other things, but I really think it was Albee’s generation, paradoxically, the “Greatest Generation,” who gave this message to the Boomer teenagers in the 1960s.
That generation was either very good or very bad. Albee (who is about 85, gay and obviously not particularly supportive of normal male-female human relationships) is obviously one of the latter group.
Actually, I think they do. But the real quandary for a Muslim is, is it okay for him to slaughter and eat a goat after he’s had sex with it? Or does he just sell it in a neighboring village?
Well, there’s that “wonderful” government education for you.
Won't Rachel Maddow be pleased!
Explains a lot, really.
Man.....these parents got to get with the times yo.
Old school ain’t happening ‘round here no more!
My 13 yr old neice told me today that they’re now teaching “Bi-curiosity” in school dog.
Times have changed!!
ugh....
Make that a double ugh.....
I am offended that only SOME parents were offended.
I also found it sadly hilarious that the one mother claimed that questioning her daughter about the play made her think of things she otherwise would have never thought of from reading, and acting, the material. That’s akin to not believing that her daughter would think about sexual “experimentation” in a sex-ed class; but would suddenly have such thoughts bubble up if asked about what was being taught in the class.
I also found claiming the disclaimer ‘students may be exposed to stories or characters that express views and beliefs that differ from their own or those of their parents.’ cover this type of material, when an ordinary person would take it to mean something entirely different and relatively benign, to be disingenuous at best.
Guess Craefree won’t be so carefree any more.
In 1963, MY junior year, if a teacher overheard someone use the word, “Hell’” it had better have been while discussing religion, salvation, and damnation; otherwise they were going to catch a small piece of it from the vice principal. We weren’t saints, but we were civil in our sinning.
We need to understand that Species Identity Disorder (SID) is a condition that needs community recognition. These students realize they were born with the wrong bodies and we are required to help them explore their true identities.
The new ACA legislation will assist these people adjust to their new species.
When you allow liberals to invade the system don't be surprised when this happens.
When conservatives don't run for school boards, or don't even vote in the elections this is the result.
I think it is also interesting when the homeschool "mafia" chastises conservative teachers and tell them to get out of the system. This will virtually assure that the system will become more liberal.
teacher should be arrested for goat molestation
Thanks for the ping.
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