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Temecula, CA Mother Objects to Her Daughter Reading the Sexually Explicit ‘Angels in America’ for High School Drama Class Assignment
The Press-Enterprise ^ | May 17, 2023 | Nova Blanco-Rico

Posted on 05/17/2023 8:14:49 PM PDT by DogByte6RER

Temecula Valley High School

A Temecula mother has complained that her 15-year-old daughter was made to read a sexually explicit play in drama class and is calling for a policy to prevent such instances in the future.

Tracy Nolasco said her daughter, a Temecula Valley High School sophomore, had to read “Angels in America,” a Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Tony Kushner. The play, set in New York City in 1985, explores the AIDS epidemic as well as religion, race, politics, and homosexuality.

Nolasco on Tuesday night, May 16, told the Temecula Valley school board that the drama describes sexual activity, sexual violence and uses profanity and was inappropriate for minors, according to a video of the meeting. She added that the play also depicts unprotected sex and the taking of pills that cause hallucinations. Her daughter’s class also includes freshmen, Nolasco said.

Temecula Valley Unified School District spokesperson James Evans said in a Wednesday, May 17, email that he learned of the allegation Tuesday night.

“We take concerns like this seriously and are currently doing our due diligence regarding these allegations,” Evans wrote. “Human Resources is involved and is in the middle of investigating this matter.”

Nolasco told the board that, after reading about 60 pages, her distraught daughter came to her.

“She said to me, ‘Mom, I can’t read this. I just can’t, but I have to. I don’t want to fail,’” Nolasco told the board.

Murrieta pastor Tim Thompson, who is affiliated with a PAC that helped elect five conservative Christians to southwest Riverside County school boards in November, told the school board that the district needs a policy to stop this from happening on campuses.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: aids; angelsinamerica; censorship; culturewar; education; groomer; grooming; homosexualagenda; leftcoast; pedosandpederasts; publicschool; riversidecounty; schoolboard; sexualgrooming; temecula; timthompson; tonykushner; tracynolasco
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Temecula Valley High School Theater

Temecula Valley High School Theater

1 posted on 05/17/2023 8:14:49 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
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Parent’s comments to TVUSD School Board at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM4l7DlzR_Q

Pastor’s comments to TVUSD School Board at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MwXM-aJ1Dg

Full article archived at: https://archive.vn/44znc


2 posted on 05/17/2023 8:17:44 PM PDT by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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Who vets these materials?

Why aren’t they being charged with laws involving such
materials and minor children?

At a certain age, adults should have access to these
materials, but it sure isn’t a must for our school systems.


3 posted on 05/17/2023 8:19:06 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: DogByte6RER

I say suck it up, snow flake. I had to read the Dairy of Anne Frank in elementary school where she writes about her sexual feelings and m*st*rb*tion.


4 posted on 05/17/2023 8:19:39 PM PDT by newzjunkey (We need a better Trump than Trump in 2024)
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To: DogByte6RER

Why are parents having to dig these out one by one to present
to school boards who find them so repugnant they won’t let
parents read them out loud at board meetings?

If adults can’t hear those words in public, why should kids
be reading them at all?


5 posted on 05/17/2023 8:21:15 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: DogByte6RER

I am old enough to remember when Temecula was all horse ranches & farms & rural properties


6 posted on 05/17/2023 8:30:40 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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I am old enough to remember when Temecula was all horse ranches & farms & rural properties

Me,too. When we drove though Temecula in 1969, it was a cluster of gas stations--and nothing else.

7 posted on 05/17/2023 8:42:17 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: DogByte6RER

What a bad mother she is...wanting her daughter to remain chaste and not give in to the joys of being groomed for being used and abused


8 posted on 05/17/2023 8:46:31 PM PDT by South Dakota (Patriotism is the new terrorism )
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“Human Resources is involved and is in the middle of investigating this matter.”

HR??? What the heck for? It should be in the principal’s hands and the school board providing oversight. The wokesters in HR won’t find anything wrong.


9 posted on 05/17/2023 8:48:44 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else…)
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Never heard of that playwright. When I was 15, I was assigned Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevskii, Animal Farm by George Orwell, The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare, and other classics. However, in those days, Dr. Max Rafferty was our Superintendent of Public Instruction, and California had the best K-12 schools in the world.
10 posted on 05/17/2023 8:49:23 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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I had to read the Dairy of Anne Frank in elementary school...

Sure you did.

11 posted on 05/17/2023 9:01:18 PM PDT by Rinnwald
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To: DogByte6RER
the drama describes sexual activity, sexual violence and uses profanity and was inappropriate for minors, according to a video of the meeting. She added that the play also depicts unprotected sex and the taking of pills that cause hallucinations. Her daughter’s class also includes freshmen...

Actually sounds kind of tame. When I was a teenager, books that I read on my own outside of class assignments included Cornelius Ryan's The Last Battle (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1966) which features plenty of gun violence and Total Terror: An Expose of Genocide in the Baltics by Albert Kalme (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1951), which describes mass murder and torture in graphic detail.

12 posted on 05/17/2023 9:06:14 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: DogByte6RER

bump to watch later.


13 posted on 05/17/2023 9:14:11 PM PDT by pollywog (" O thou who changest not....ABIDE with me")
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To: DogByte6RER

Bookmark


14 posted on 05/17/2023 9:25:18 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. Never be a peaceful slave in a new Socialist America)
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To: DogByte6RER

Lord forbid you make them read classics


15 posted on 05/17/2023 9:39:08 PM PDT by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: newzjunkey

An appropriate book at an older age NOT elementary school


16 posted on 05/17/2023 9:40:27 PM PDT by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: Rinnwald
I had to read ‘The Scarlet Letter,’ and the ‘Canterbury Tales.’ So, I guess sexual content was hidden in wording better back then.
17 posted on 05/17/2023 9:42:07 PM PDT by political1 (Love your neighbors)
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I had to read the Dairy of Anne Frank in elementary school...

Sure you did.

Exactly.


18 posted on 05/17/2023 9:48:27 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to se)
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To: newzjunkey

Angels in America is quite different. Its sort of a screed against ‘homophobia’ and religion. Sort of because the story is a bit incoherent. Its about AIDs infected gay people and weird creepy angels who dance around and sing about sex and their genitals or something. Dunno it was written like some bizarre fever dream with little if any plot but the gay aids infected part made it hip apparently.

There is also your obligatory evil closeted gay conservative token character. And good gay protagonists that ironically are a nogo for today’s world because they’re written in the 90s stereotypical way.


19 posted on 05/17/2023 10:01:18 PM PDT by jarwulf
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To: DogByte6RER

That looks like a prison.


20 posted on 05/17/2023 11:45:28 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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