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Remember how I told you about that local charter school banning Shakespeare? Mats Gambling Buddy Send a noteboard - 27/10/2009 01:42:23 PM
And how they won't allow their middle school kids to do the edited Hamlet? Well, my second submission also got rejected. What was it? Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.I edited the whole thing like I did with Hamlet to take out anything that MIGHT be considered offensive in any way. The reason the charter school board gave me was that the graveyard scene depicted death. GAAAAAHHHHH! Charter school garbage. I submitted an edited version of The Hysterical History of the Trojan War. I edited it so that every person who dies (Hector, Achilles, etc) does a Monty Python-ish "I think I'm going to make it" deal. It's funny but why should I have to edit literature for middle school kids? They can't even mention death? That severely limits the book selection for them and excludes most of the greatest works in history. It's ridiculous. It makes me sad for the kids.
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Remember how I told you about that local charter school banning Shakespeare? - 27/10/2009 01:42:23 PM 903 Views
Get with the times man. - 27/10/2009 01:49:38 PM 776 Views
I don't know whether it would make you feel any better - 27/10/2009 01:59:15 PM 619 Views
yeah, write to the local paper and news channel - 27/10/2009 03:32:46 PM 580 Views
I'm in Indiana. - 27/10/2009 03:43:03 PM 580 Views
I am very worried about the next generation. - 27/10/2009 04:36:24 PM 578 Views
I'm kinda curious how we don't see it as lying to them. - 27/10/2009 04:43:49 PM 642 Views
Many, many people see lying to children as a perfectly legitimate technique. - 27/10/2009 07:23:59 PM 634 Views
I really think you ought to write to the paper. - 28/10/2009 02:39:55 AM 576 Views
I can understand how you feel... - 27/10/2009 02:02:42 PM 571 Views
Two questions - 27/10/2009 02:12:02 PM 609 Views
Re: Two questions - 27/10/2009 02:45:16 PM 588 Views
Oh okay thanks! - 27/10/2009 02:54:46 PM 561 Views
You have the right of it. - 27/10/2009 03:05:48 PM 581 Views
Re: Two questions - 27/10/2009 03:04:09 PM 577 Views
If A Christmas Carol didn't get through... - 27/10/2009 02:29:18 PM 639 Views
But Humpty Dumpty breaks! - 27/10/2009 02:30:28 PM 577 Views
Humpty Dumpty was pushed! - 27/10/2009 02:59:55 PM 572 Views
Exactly. - 27/10/2009 03:10:54 PM 578 Views
Re: If A Christmas Carol didn't get through... - 27/10/2009 03:08:01 PM 554 Views
Re: If A Christmas Carol didn't get through... - 27/10/2009 03:16:46 PM 525 Views
Re: If A Christmas Carol didn't get through... - 27/10/2009 03:23:15 PM 543 Views
guh - 27/10/2009 03:31:28 PM 540 Views
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Re: guh - 27/10/2009 03:50:05 PM 572 Views
What she's saying is true. - 27/10/2009 04:40:22 PM 555 Views
You gotta be kidding me! - 27/10/2009 03:42:57 PM 570 Views
It serves k-8 but I want to do different material with the 7-8 kids. - 27/10/2009 04:41:42 PM 538 Views
apparently none of these kids has a TV? - 27/10/2009 02:47:00 PM 584 Views
Yeah, I have to edit everything. Even history, apparently. - 27/10/2009 03:09:08 PM 560 Views
huh? - 27/10/2009 02:57:20 PM 668 Views
Re: huh? - 27/10/2009 03:15:43 PM 662 Views
Wow, cool school! - 27/10/2009 03:37:51 PM 570 Views
What if you have Scrooge get swine flu for the third visit? - 27/10/2009 02:57:28 PM 565 Views
And.... - 27/10/2009 03:17:42 PM 570 Views
People are paranoid. *NM* - 27/10/2009 03:11:26 PM 246 Views
ah, you did say what grade they are. - 27/10/2009 03:47:40 PM 522 Views
what's their problem? - 27/10/2009 03:48:10 PM 566 Views
sheesh man! Ridiculous. *NM* - 27/10/2009 11:34:21 PM 235 Views
Maybe you should get Philip Glass to present a non-denominational, unoffensive school play. - 27/10/2009 11:47:08 PM 561 Views
That was a funny mind image. *NM* - 28/10/2009 01:08:42 AM 240 Views
Seriously?! - 28/10/2009 11:52:30 AM 564 Views

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