Someone suggested the teacher should have used a bible story which certainly could have contained the events of King Lear and a few of its own twists. I simply offer two stories.
Missouri Drama Teacher Resigns in Play Flap
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: March 18, 2006
Filed at 9:24 a.m. ET
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A central Missouri high school drama teacher whose spring play was canceled after complaints about tawdry content in one of her previous productions will resign rather than face a possible firing.
‘’It became too much to not be able to speak my mind or defend my students without fear or retribution,'’ said Fulton High School teacher Wendy DeVore.
DeVore’s students were to perform Arthur Miller’s ‘’The Crucible,'’ a drama set during the 17th Century Salem witch trials.
The entire story is here.
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