More like bless the knuckle-draggers who won't allow high school kids to do a Shakespeare play.
This whole flap sounds like the "parents" got worried about the play concerning the 17th Century Salem witch trials, so they held a witch trial of their own.
Forcing a teacher to resign over students pretending like they are smoking or kissing in a grease production is foolish.
Let's see; banning Shakespear, Grease, Arthur Miller. I can't figure out if it's the fault of snake handlers or simpering liberals.
When I was in high school back in the late 60s and early 70s, we put on all sorts of interesting plays and musicals, some of which may even have involved the portrayal of smoking and drinking. We even put on Edward Albee's "The Zoo Story."
I have to agree, now if it was Caligula and they brought in a live horse...
So why not do 'The Taming of the Shrew', instead?