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US: School Board Blocks High School Drama Club Production

Yakima's A.C. Davis High's production of The Laramie Project has been canceled, because the play "could be perceived as promoting homosexuality."

"We'd brought it up in the meetings...there might be issues we never really expected it was going to be the school district," said drama club president and Davis senior Kristie Prescott. Prescott and several drama club students decided to do the Laramie Project last month at the start of the school year. It's a play about the aftermath of a young Laramie, Wyoming man brutally murdered by two men for being gay.

But soon after, controversy erupted in the high school's community with students, their parents and even staff. "When I read the play I didn't have a similar reaction," said Lee Maras, principal of Davis High School. "But the ones I did talk to didn't even want to read it, didn't even want to look at it - just felt it was inappropriate for our school."

...Now several students are upset, even setting up a myspace page urging for support to go through with the play. They wrote: "the school district cannot allow this play to be produced because it is 'too controversial for a town this conservative.'"


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Posted in: News on October 7, 2006 @ 12:00 AM

Tags: School

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