Posted on 05/17/2023 8:14:49 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
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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Temecula is quite a distance from LA. The tentacles of evil stretch many, many miles.
Temecula is quite a distance from LA. The tentacles of evil stretch many, many miles.
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