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.
“Concerns are overblown”..... I would’ve considered different wording.
Among the “goals of communism” printed in the Congressional Record of January 10, 1963 are these sad lines:
“Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.”
—to our vulnerable children.
Get your kids out of the government schools, do it now and don’t look back.
wait, so being concerned about YOUR kid being involved in such perversity is overblown, but if you ask their kid about it, you get resented.
Taking kids to be in a vulgar play- no big deal
Asking the kids of the people who took your kids there- horrible
These loons are running the country folks
Well.... we can't grow up to be cowboys any more. It's apparently against the law.
Amazing. They can get YOUR kid into such a vulgar thing and its no biggie but if you ask their kids about it, that is horrible and resentful.
lol
locker room. try showers.
I've said it many times on FR. Do this to my kid and you're dead meat.
The members of your ping list might want to take a look at this.
And they sent their kid to “Carefree”?
Cowboys too damned self -Sufficient (violates dependency), too independent ( violates subservience ) , and they defend themselves too (violates gun confiscation schemes). Far better to train your children to enjoy being screwed by goats. That prepares your little rug rats for their intended role in the Transformed third- world AmerikaSSR.
Honestly, we’re going the way of Rome.... It’s hard to wrap my head around this as even happening. I keep wanting to say BS, this garbage would never happen. Parents would scream bloody murder—pull their kids out of school etc...
We’re actually a culture that is rotting away from the inside out, destined to end with a whimper.
bump
Oh right, that is so specific and where does it say students might be simulating sex on a goat and not just reading about it??
Training to be good muslims!!
Make public schools illegal.
Just when we think we’ve heard it all... Now it’s come to this... and only “some” parents are outraged.
Bawney Fwank is shopping for a “big and tall” goat costume as we speak.../s
I don’t care what she says, that goat is a damn liar!
I think the most outrageous thing is that only some of the parents were outraged.
I am SO glad I am old.
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