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.
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
God have mercy.
Some parents are, but most aren’t?
Termination .. after a good, long torture session.
Some parents?
Homosexual marriage
Polygamy
Pedophilia
Bestiality
The order may be somewhat indeterminate, but one thing will follow another. Once one is allowed, it becomes harder to argue against the next.
Were they doing a play about the Taliban?
I had a small part in a school play in my junior year (1976.) I had to replace the word “Damn” from the script with the word “Drat.”
Goats, perfectly legit partners under islam!
I hear the islamicists prefer camels ( and boys ) to goats. But maybe they will like goats too, come to think of it. You’re probably right.
4000 years of great drama and literature to use in Western Civ and this leftist system picks a vulgar little play by a vulgar little man.
What was the matter? Couldn’t they get rights to show THE NAKED LUNCH?
A public display of the backroom practices of Hollywood finest.
God forbid they sing Christmas carols or put on a wholesome play. This is the liberals at work demoralizing them.
Fits right in in a world where elementary school kids are read tales of two Kings “marrying” each other and girls have to share the same locker room with a boy if that boy “feels like a girl” that day.
Edward Albee was the totally messed up adopted child of a wealthy NY family (Long Island, IIRC). Why his horrible view of the universe is being inflicted on teenagers, I do not know, except that they have probably all been watching Breaking Bad since forever and think that cruelty and cynicism and corruption is cool.
They’re doing The Naked Lunch next week. The school year has just begun.
Sometimes I think I have landed on a different planet.
I’m sure “Falsettos” and “The Laramie Project” are on the schedule.....
http://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/09d/falsettos_play/index.html
http://www.massresistance.org/docs/issues/laramie_project/study_materials.html
San Fagcisco values being forced on children, coming to a city near you. Reprehensible.
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