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.
But wine was the great assassin of both tradition and propriety...
-Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
-Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
Remember how I told you about that local charter school banning Shakespeare?
27/10/2009 01:42:23 PM
- 691 Views
I don't know whether it would make you feel any better
27/10/2009 01:59:15 PM
- 389 Views
yeah, write to the local paper and news channel
27/10/2009 03:32:46 PM
- 361 Views
I'm in Indiana.
27/10/2009 03:43:03 PM
- 342 Views
I am very worried about the next generation.
27/10/2009 04:36:24 PM
- 348 Views
I'm kinda curious how we don't see it as lying to them.
27/10/2009 04:43:49 PM
- 415 Views
Many, many people see lying to children as a perfectly legitimate technique.
27/10/2009 07:23:59 PM
- 396 Views
Two questions
27/10/2009 02:12:02 PM
- 385 Views
You need to modify your business plan... A Better Gaming Store and Totally Awesome School
27/10/2009 02:18:32 PM
- 347 Views
If A Christmas Carol didn't get through...
27/10/2009 02:29:18 PM
- 402 Views
Re: If A Christmas Carol didn't get through...
27/10/2009 03:08:01 PM
- 331 Views
Re: If A Christmas Carol didn't get through...
27/10/2009 03:16:46 PM
- 307 Views
Re: If A Christmas Carol didn't get through...
27/10/2009 03:23:15 PM
- 340 Views
guh
27/10/2009 03:31:28 PM
- 325 Views
You gotta be kidding me!
27/10/2009 03:42:57 PM
- 334 Views
It serves k-8 but I want to do different material with the 7-8 kids.
27/10/2009 04:41:42 PM
- 328 Views
sheesh man! Ridiculous. *NM*
27/10/2009 11:34:21 PM
- 137 Views
Maybe you should get Philip Glass to present a non-denominational, unoffensive school play.
27/10/2009 11:47:08 PM
- 330 Views
Anyone who bans Shakespeare should be imprisoned for idiocy. *NM*
30/10/2009 07:09:17 PM
- 153 Views