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 Cupos 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.
Im sure that since its appropriate material, that the language Im 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 didnt seem discriminated against, she said. I understand Mr. Cupos point of what is metaphorically said within the script, but when were rehearsing these things and saying these things out loud, were not thinking of the metaphorical things, were thinking of who were 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.
Now if a student or parent would even suggest they instead do a play based on traditional values they would get ostracized by radical leftist school administrators. What will the liberals do next, kick students out of school for believing in traditional values, or is that already taking place? I weep for America.
“Every parent should positively welcome the state teaching their children how to enjoy sex with goats. Why else would we want to pay taxes and have a government to rule over us, after all ? Three cheers for Arizona, the state that also have us senator McCain. /s”
LOL, well, those Arizona boys don’t need no state to teach them about sex with goats. Nor do Montana boys need the state to teach them about sex with sheep. Btw, ever winder why those boys wear their jeans tucked inside their boots? Well now you know. About McCain, well, do you know why McCain followed the chicken across the road? Use your imagination, lol :)
There are “Breaking Bad” fans on FR.
Parents who love their own children do whatever it takes to keep them far, far away from the government schools.
Some parents upset about a school play in which students portray sexual acts with a goat
The hell you say?
Just remember: left/liberalism is coarse, crude, and vulgar. Always. And if we respond to it with coarse, crude, and vulgar comments (you haven’t), we lose. Maybe we lose anyway, but we cannot lose because we sacrificed our own integrity.
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Do we sacrifice our integrity by showing up with pikes, torches and ropes? Sometimes I think that is what we are going to need to save the culture.
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.
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Who gets to play the goat ?
The taxpayers are the goats
According to the Handy Handbook authored by MadMo, Allah approved of sex with small livestock.
What is good enough for Obama should be good enough for others, right?
;-(
Gives new meaning to the phrase “they got your goat”.
Visited a local public college today. They had a big recruiting table going in the center of campus for “Coming Out Day” sponsored by the “Gay Students Association.” With a great big gay flag. They had flyers posted for special speakers A black liberationist and a Latino resistance Poet ( or vice versa).
No Shakespeare or Faulkner or Hemingway or Chaucer or cooper or Longfellow or Poe or Blake or Defoe or even Kant or Kierkegaard or Spinoza in sight. And certainly nothing about Christianity or Judaism or Catholicism. No special science speakers on offer either. Our tax money at work. When the kids graduate they won’t know much at all a d a lot of what they learned will be counter productive to any useful role in society. They will mostly be unemployable of course. Perfect fits for the dole in the Great Obama Depression.
At least Woody Allen was funny with his little sheep And back then we laughed at it. We didn’t use it as an instruction manual.
Yeah.... but it is apparent that others did.
Unbelievable. Just freakin unbelievable.
I guess they couldn’t find a copy of “Our Town”.
the public school was just training the kids to grow up and become politicians?
Apparently, The Goat... won a Tony Award in 2002 and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in the same year. I checked out a couple renditions of the play on Youtube.
Honestly, it’s not as bad as the story makes out. What little I watched seems very much absurdist in its take on the issue, rather than a genuine endorsement of anything as sick as sleeping with a goat. (Though I only watched a few clips, so that may not hold true).
Still, it’s *hardly* appropriate fare for a high school setting, anymore than a high school stage production of Last Tango in Paris, or “Oh, Calcutta!” would be.
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