Censorship? Or “maintaining order”?
Sounds like free speech has long been an issue at this school, but silencing a play about the war is…well, even if the kids were wrong about things, how is putting together a play and expressing yourself not educational?
"At least 10 students involved in the production, however, said that the principal had told them the material was too inflammatory, and that only someone who had actually served in the war could understand the experience…“To me, it was outrageous,’’ said Jim Anderson, Sarah’s father. “Here these kids are really trying to make a meaningful effort to educate, to illuminate their fellow students, and the administration, of all people, is shutting them down.”
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