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.
I'm not strange. I'm normal. Everyone else is strange.
Oosta!
Remember how I told you about that local charter school banning Shakespeare?
- 27/10/2009 01:42:23 PM
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I don't know whether it would make you feel any better
- 27/10/2009 01:59:15 PM
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yeah, write to the local paper and news channel
- 27/10/2009 03:32:46 PM
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I'm in Indiana.
- 27/10/2009 03:43:03 PM
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I am very worried about the next generation.
- 27/10/2009 04:36:24 PM
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I'm kinda curious how we don't see it as lying to them.
- 27/10/2009 04:43:49 PM
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Many, many people see lying to children as a perfectly legitimate technique.
- 27/10/2009 07:23:59 PM
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Two questions
- 27/10/2009 02:12:02 PM
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You need to modify your business plan... A Better Gaming Store and Totally Awesome School
- 27/10/2009 02:18:32 PM
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If A Christmas Carol didn't get through...
- 27/10/2009 02:29:18 PM
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Re: If A Christmas Carol didn't get through...
- 27/10/2009 03:08:01 PM
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Re: If A Christmas Carol didn't get through...
- 27/10/2009 03:16:46 PM
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Re: If A Christmas Carol didn't get through...
- 27/10/2009 03:23:15 PM
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guh
- 27/10/2009 03:31:28 PM
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You gotta be kidding me!
- 27/10/2009 03:42:57 PM
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It serves k-8 but I want to do different material with the 7-8 kids.
- 27/10/2009 04:41:42 PM
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People are paranoid. *NM*
- 27/10/2009 03:11:26 PM
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Maybe you should get Philip Glass to present a non-denominational, unoffensive school play.
- 27/10/2009 11:47:08 PM
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Anyone who bans Shakespeare should be imprisoned for idiocy. *NM*
- 30/10/2009 07:09:17 PM
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*NM*