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MajSigmaE t1_jckqzas wrote

That's so ridiculous. I remember Trinity HS doing Grease. The Catholic high school. Performing Grease. LMAO

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PinsAndBeetles t1_jckrwaa wrote

Yes, showing a husband who is devoted to his wife, a strong marital bond, parents who communicate with their children and help them problem solve, and a family who sticks together through thick and thin would definitely send the wrong message.

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WITFnews OP t1_jcks7ux wrote

Replying to MajSigmaE (#2,254,044)

Fun fact. This high school also recently performed Grease.

The board president actually said this at the meeting: “I don’t think there is a play with a worse theme than Grease and we performed it in an excellent way,” Naum said. “Mrs. (Brooke) Bomberger did a fantastic job of modifying it to what we believe is community standards.”

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Wuz314159 t1_jckt8ns wrote

We rented a generator for a production of Damn Yankees in the 90s. Rental company found out we were depicting the devil and refused to do business with us again.

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d_fa5 t1_jcl0jt2 wrote

isn't this the same school with the infamous dildo incident?

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StarWars_and_SNL t1_jcl5jzw wrote

This is the show that Bethel Park (Greater Pittsburgh Area) is doing right now.

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Mysterious487 t1_jcl5ssz wrote

When someone can’t separate their personal religious beliefs from their responsibilities as a public servant, you have situations like this ban on The Addams Family musical. The people of the board president’s voting district need to vote the Evangelical pastor off the school board. People have every right to have their religious convictions, but don’t force them on the public.

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Excelius t1_jcl6c49 wrote

Replying to Mysterious487 (#2,254,891)

There's a good chance they ran for school board precisely to do this kind of stuff.

There's been a concerted effort in the past few years for right-wing culture warriors to take over school boards. They're local races that people mostly don't care about for jobs that no one really wants to do, so it's easy for them to get on the ballot and win.

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Mysterious487 t1_jcl7m2u wrote

Replying to Excelius (#2,254,917)

I grew up in the conservative fundamentalist evangelical culture. This is exactly why this man ran for a school board position. I can almost guarantee his children and his church members’ children don’t attend the public school. Their children are most likely homeschooled or attend a private Christian school. The pastor is only on the board to project his morality on the rest of society.

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IamSauerKraut t1_jcl96sm wrote

Way to fail the students in your district, Mr. Naum. Never change the reputation of NoLeb of being a student unfriendly public school district. There is a clear reason NoLeb grads so often are qualified to do little more than flip burgers or drive dump trucks.

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IamSauerKraut t1_jcl9uxe wrote

Replying to Excelius (#2,254,917)

>There's a good chance they ran for school board precisely to do this kind of stuff.

NoLeb in a nutshell. Yet, despite their non-stop efforts to exercise absolute control over students, most students continue to thrive.

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Hib3rnian t1_jclakim wrote

Creepy and kooky? Sure Mysterious and spooky? Yes, a bit. All together ooky? No doubt. Promote bad values? Not in the slightest.

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--Cr1imsoN-- t1_jclcd1v wrote

"The Addams Family musical reflects today’s culture, Board member Robbie England said, but he did not view that as a good thing."

Whelp, that pretty much tells you everything you need to know about the school district board... what a bunch of clowns.

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punchyouinthewiener t1_jclf5xj wrote

Replying to malogan82 (#2,254,954)

There’s a Grease School Edition, which is what our high school recently put on, which cuts out quite a bit if the innuendo and completely cuts out the pregnancy scare, although there are allusions to it throughout.

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OkFineBanMe68 t1_jclfltb wrote

These extemist Christian puritans are so hypocritical and nonsensical with their "wont someone think of the children" shit. They literally dont care about real problems but care immensely about made up nonsensical bullshit

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Drewcifer81 t1_jclgodm wrote

Replying to IamSauerKraut (#2,255,072)

>There is a clear reason NoLeb grads so often are qualified to do little more than flip burgers or drive dump trucks.

And the ones that are qualified to do more leave the county and never move back.

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tmaenadw t1_jclhpax wrote

Replying to d_fa5 (#2,254,587)

To be fair, my husband worked at the university level and throwing dildos around probably would have been deemed inappropriate there as well, even behind closed doors.

The play however, banning that is just crazy.

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drxdrg08 t1_jcll6li wrote

Replying to drunkmonkey176 (#2,254,045)

> Y'All Qaeda trash at it again.

Is this what Reddit is about?

Get fake outraged about shit that doesn't concern you in any way, throw some insults and slurs at some abstract group of people, and then get upvotes?

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thenewtbaron t1_jclmquv wrote

Board member Troy Williams, who is pastor at Calvary Church in Lebanon, said the musical sticks to the basis of the 1960s television show and is the number one school musical in the country, but said the show has no place in the district.

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The Addams Family musical reflects today’s culture, Board member Robbie England said, but he did not view that as a good thing.

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wait, the musical is sticks to the 60's show but refects modern culture by going toward dispair and death.... wait. what?

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thenewtbaron t1_jclnlta wrote

Replying to drxdrg08 (#2,255,771)

Yes. When I watch Footloose, I cheer for Kevin Bacon's character not the religious leader that bans things for other people's high school students doing because he doesn't like it.

We knew that leader was a bad guy or villain to fight against because they are doing a thing call "oppression",,, we found that ot back in the 80's. I don't like that shit coming to my state.

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MartianActual t1_jclon4k wrote

I could never imagine growing up in the fucked up T part of Pennsylvania.

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Whogotthebutton t1_jclqgct wrote

Replying to PinsAndBeetles (#2,254,097)

Wasn't this the backdrop for the Adams Family? They were creepy and weird superficially but with a solid moral compass, while all of the "squeaky clean" folks around town looked clean-cut but were constantly being shitheads.

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drunkmonkey176 t1_jclqphq wrote

Replying to drxdrg08 (#2,255,771)

LMFAO! It's hilarious to hear Y'All Qaeda trash whining when they realize the actual majority of people in this country aren't going to put up with them forcing their dark age fairy tale values on others. The fact they are willing to use violence and murder people to do so makes them terrorist and they will be treated as such.

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drxdrg08 t1_jcm5aw8 wrote

Replying to drunkmonkey176 (#2,256,061)

> them forcing their dark age fairy tale values on others

That's not what's happening. It's a school board elected in a democratic election. The school board by definition represents what the majority of parents in the school district wants.

I guess you are one of those "progressives" that likes democracy only when it does what you want.

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Silver-Hburg t1_jcm80m2 wrote

Ahh yes NLHS. My kids went there and only two are still traumatized years later …

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Azr431 t1_jcmc69y wrote

That decision from the board looks about white

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PatientNice t1_jcmmuw8 wrote

Maybe they should do Little School Board of Horrors.

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Yen-sama t1_jcmvx47 wrote

Damn, we got away with The Crucible in my sophomore year.

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carlc64 t1_jcn0ilo wrote

These prudish conservatives dick won’t do anything to protect kids from gun ‘n ammo though…

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SWPenn t1_jcn3dgo wrote

Looks like the Ron DeSantis playbook for the moral police has made it to Pennsylvania. Have to protect the children from depravity. Wish they were this passionate after every school shooting when kids actually die. But they're strangely silent.

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melipooh72 t1_jcn8r7c wrote

Someone from that school needs to contact the ACLU. The district in MD where I grew up has been supported by the ACLU more than once when the school board tried to ban plays and the drama teachers won each time, making the county look like a total ass in the process.

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Guntcher1423 t1_jcnfs01 wrote

You just have to wonder what happened to these people to make them like this.

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IamSauerKraut t1_jcnipji wrote

Replying to ycpa68 (#2,259,048)

No, but everyone knows student achievement and proper admin behavior were not things Don focused on. He likely would have taken Mr. Pinky and chewed on it just for the fun of it.

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Chickadoozle t1_jcnw7wg wrote

Replying to Excelius (#2,254,917)

Had a guy running for a local school board seat. Made it very obvious that under "his opponents rule" (to quote) too many unholy abominations, such as gay people in public, were being displayed!
Aka, we must protect the children by getting rid of half the children :skull:

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ycpa68 t1_jcp7mmz wrote

Replying to IamSauerKraut (#2,262,787)

Not knowing what you mean by that I can't really comment. On a personal level I never had an issue with her beyond normal petty high school stuff. I don't really know her well enough in adulthood to say anything, but her husband is a decent guy and she seems to be fairly levelheaded on the board.

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Zenith2017 t1_jd38zz4 wrote

A government entity should never employ a religious leader, period

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Zenith2017 t1_jd39bpw wrote

Replying to drxdrg08 (#2,256,853)

Yeah, and they chose to elect a Catholic evangelist priest to a government position. Said government employee is attempting to force his dark age fairytale beliefs on the school district. That's the problem.

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