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Huh. Did they give a reason why it's not appropriate? *NM* Ghavrel Send a noteboard - 21/10/2009 02:51:08 AM
I am set to begin directing a shortened version of Hamlet in two weeks at a middle school here in Colorado Springs. I edited the script myself down to a managable 1-hour long production removing anything that might be too strong of content for 11-13 year olds. Now the school says that Shakespeare works in general are not appropriate in schools! Really? This is a charter school that has the term "Classical education" in their mission statement. I'm appalled. GAH! Banning classical literature makes me a tad angry. Apparently we're all psycho killers because we've read Chaucer, Euripedes, Shakespeare, etc. Maybe I'll get to do Our Town or some other over-done standard. Or maybe the older students will have to do Charlotte's Web like I did with the younger ones. Edited Shakespeare might ruin them.

PS- Charter schools in general make my stomach heave. Maybe I'll rant about that sometime.
"We feel safe when we read what we recognise, what does not challenge our way of thinking.... a steady acceptance of pre-arranged patterns leads to the inability to question what we are told."
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I'm a little pissed off here. - 21/10/2009 12:18:59 AM 835 Views
Wow. Wait. What? - 21/10/2009 12:26:03 AM 1386 Views
<3 Dark and Twisted stories. - 21/10/2009 12:32:45 AM 507 Views
I hadn't until now - 21/10/2009 12:49:39 AM 1279 Views
There are actually 6 of them - 21/10/2009 01:02:55 AM 573 Views
That makes me mad and sad... - 21/10/2009 12:34:30 AM 617 Views
Re: That makes me mad and sad... - 21/10/2009 01:05:38 AM 586 Views
I loved that scene! - 21/10/2009 01:44:17 AM 550 Views
How'd your Charlotte's Web go? I know you had to work with a lot of no-shows due to illness. *NM* - 21/10/2009 01:06:22 AM 252 Views
It was ridiculous. - 21/10/2009 09:52:34 AM 670 Views
that's horrible. i don't understand it... - 21/10/2009 02:33:46 AM 585 Views
Huh. Did they give a reason why it's not appropriate? *NM* - 21/10/2009 02:51:08 AM 304 Views
Nope. - 21/10/2009 10:02:32 AM 608 Views
...I don't even know what to say to that. - 21/10/2009 03:19:22 AM 594 Views
I have been seriously considering this. *NM* - 21/10/2009 09:53:43 AM 279 Views
They're just mad that they don't understand it. - 21/10/2009 03:52:26 AM 645 Views
That's really saddening - 21/10/2009 10:45:33 AM 524 Views
~choke~ - 21/10/2009 01:35:58 PM 538 Views
Can you make a case for yourself? - 21/10/2009 04:56:48 PM 585 Views
Charter school boards decree from on high and won't listen to anyone.... - 22/10/2009 01:10:36 AM 604 Views
Tell them you are doing a new play... MGB & TaskMasterJack's Apartment - 21/10/2009 05:52:07 PM 527 Views
It would be hilarious to watch a middle school theater production of those. *NM* - 21/10/2009 06:55:31 PM 264 Views
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I'd pay to experience it. *NM* - 21/10/2009 07:41:34 PM 294 Views
Aside from the censorship it would have been nice to know that BEFORE you worked on the script. - 21/10/2009 08:00:38 PM 544 Views
Seriously, but it's the censorship that really gets me. *NM* - 22/10/2009 01:19:25 AM 363 Views
I agree with you wholeheartedly. Out of curiosity... - 22/10/2009 12:26:00 AM 529 Views
Well, I'd say othello is darker... - 22/10/2009 01:20:31 AM 479 Views
Huh. Up in DPS we did Hamlet in 4th grade. - 26/10/2009 12:23:15 AM 622 Views

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