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Some parents?
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"Are you keeding? I loved it!!"
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.
Business class 101: “The goat #ck”.
>> I am SO glad I am old.
I regret you said that.
BTW, this subject of this article is infuriating.
55 MILLION DEAD BABIES is all one needs to know how our country will survive....it won’t.....PERVERSION is taking over every aspect of our life.
Don’t get me wrong, I regret your implied lack of participation.
I feel like it’s just too late to save America. I would gladly move out, but my husband won’t.
>> PERVERSION is taking over every aspect of our life.
I have had multiple near-death experiences, and not necessarily as the antiquated curmudgeon. Arguably, not a humbling experience given how I deemed my existence somehow more important thereafter.
Anyway, concerning life, we should never forgo the enthusiasm for life and liberty that is given to every new child, every new honest immigrant, every Marxist that eventually realizes the foolishness of their utopian fantasies.
But your references to the babes tells me you still give a damn.
If you can provide belief, that’s more than most seem willing to give these days.
Sometimes the greatest challenges can be overcome by simply keeping one foot forward in front of the other.
God Bless, FRiend.
This one is so bad, I’m pinging BOTH lists.
This is what those parents who want to avoid socializing their children are missing out on.
Lovely, eh?
This one is so bad, I’m pinging BOTH lists.
This is what those parents who want to avoid socializing their children are missing out on.
Lovely, eh?
Just posted this link to another thread.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”
Here is a link to Cupo’s web site at the school: http://ccusd93.org/education/staff/staff.php?sectiondetailid=25277&;
I presume that the course titled “Theatre 5/6H” would be the advanced Drama course. In the documents section there is no listing of Albee’s play as one of the requirements. If the parents signed the release for that class and he changed the course he should have notified the parents.
Only “some” parents? Why was not every parent in that school down there?
I got my PhD from a public university in Seattle, a hot bed of liberalism. The student organizations were frequently on display, including the Korean Christians, other Christian groups, Falung Gong, etc. On occasion, there were right to life groups with info tables.
No one is going to have an outreach table to learn about Shakespeare. Be assured, there are still classes on the Western Canon and in philosophy. There are still presentations by scholars, though they are usually advertised in the school paper or on a departmental bulletin board.
I’m in the Midwest and frequently have students who write about their church or mention church activities in class discussions. The world hasn’t gone to hell in a hand basket quite yet.
Glad your campus has some balance but many schools still do not.
sorry to have to say.
He did write one of America’s classic plays, of course; but many drama teachers are eager to shake their charges from the shackles of parental upbringing.
I guess that such a prominent playwright wrote such a transgressive play—he’s old and has basically lost his gift to impress otherwise—seemed to give at least one drama teacher such an opening.
Some parents?
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"Are you keeding? I loved it!!"
Hamlet 2 ping. Thanks massmike.
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.”
Back around 1980 we did “Bye Bye Birdie” in my Jr High. We changed Rosie’s “To Hell with you!” to “We’re Through!”
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.
I read about that a long time ago (when a father was banned from the school after his kindergarten aged child brought it home). If I recall correctly the character of the Queen chastises her son because he hadn’t married. She says something like “by your age I had already married several times.”
Tell me again how they’re not trying to destroy marriage.
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