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They're just mad that they don't understand it. Seriana Sedai Send a noteboard - 21/10/2009 03:52:26 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.

Seriously though, that is ridiculous. I don't even know how to say how stupid that is. I'm sorry you did all that work and then they did that.
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I'm a little pissed off here. - 21/10/2009 12:18:59 AM 838 Views
Wow. Wait. What? - 21/10/2009 12:26:03 AM 1393 Views
<3 Dark and Twisted stories. - 21/10/2009 12:32:45 AM 511 Views
I hadn't until now - 21/10/2009 12:49:39 AM 1285 Views
There are actually 6 of them - 21/10/2009 01:02:55 AM 577 Views
That makes me mad and sad... - 21/10/2009 12:34:30 AM 622 Views
Re: That makes me mad and sad... - 21/10/2009 01:05:38 AM 589 Views
I loved that scene! - 21/10/2009 01:44:17 AM 556 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 254 Views
It was ridiculous. - 21/10/2009 09:52:34 AM 674 Views
that's horrible. i don't understand it... - 21/10/2009 02:33:46 AM 587 Views
Huh. Did they give a reason why it's not appropriate? *NM* - 21/10/2009 02:51:08 AM 305 Views
Nope. - 21/10/2009 10:02:32 AM 613 Views
...I don't even know what to say to that. - 21/10/2009 03:19:22 AM 599 Views
I have been seriously considering this. *NM* - 21/10/2009 09:53:43 AM 280 Views
They're just mad that they don't understand it. - 21/10/2009 03:52:26 AM 651 Views
That's really saddening - 21/10/2009 10:45:33 AM 526 Views
~choke~ - 21/10/2009 01:35:58 PM 542 Views
Can you make a case for yourself? - 21/10/2009 04:56:48 PM 590 Views
Charter school boards decree from on high and won't listen to anyone.... - 22/10/2009 01:10:36 AM 609 Views
Tell them you are doing a new play... MGB & TaskMasterJack's Apartment - 21/10/2009 05:52:07 PM 533 Views
It would be hilarious to watch a middle school theater production of those. *NM* - 21/10/2009 06:55:31 PM 266 Views
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I'd pay to experience it. *NM* - 21/10/2009 07:41:34 PM 296 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 549 Views
Seriously, but it's the censorship that really gets me. *NM* - 22/10/2009 01:19:25 AM 365 Views
I agree with you wholeheartedly. Out of curiosity... - 22/10/2009 12:26:00 AM 535 Views
Well, I'd say othello is darker... - 22/10/2009 01:20:31 AM 482 Views
Huh. Up in DPS we did Hamlet in 4th grade. - 26/10/2009 12:23:15 AM 626 Views

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