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Originally posted by Turbo_pro
Forcing a student (force by implication) to perform in a play that makes a statement he/she may disagree with, seems unfair in the extreme. A drama student who wants to perform could only perform or abstain. By abstaining his/her grade may be affected.
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For the spring semester, students in the advanced theater class took on a bigger challenge: creating an original play about the war in Iraq. They compiled reflections of soldiers and others involved, including a heartbreaking letter from a 2005 Wilton High graduate killed in Iraq last September at age 19, and quickly found their largely sheltered lives somewhat transformed..........................After reading a book of first-person accounts of the war, Ms. Dickinson kicked off the spring semester — with the principal’s blessing — by asking her advanced students if they were open to creating a play about Iraq. In an interview, the teacher said the objective was to showcase people close to the same age as the students who were “experiencing very different things in their daily lives and to stand in the shoes of those people and then present them by speaking their words exactly in front of an audience.”
............................On March 13, Mr. Canty met with the class. He told us “no matter what we do, it’s not happening,” said one of the students, Erin Clancy.
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Did you even read the article
Turbo_pro ?
You can attempt to reframe or rewrite history and the facts all you want. You can see how well that has served GWB and his gang by their low approval ratings. You can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.