More...A little while back at my school, one of our football players won some National Guard All-American honor; or something like that. Anyway, like twenty people from the National Guard came to speak and one talked of why it is essential that kids like us join the army right now with our conflict in the Middle-East. But here's the ticker: a group of kids made a huge flag, out of burlap or something, that had a "peace" sign on it, and brought it to the assembly. They didn't really yell, or do anything, but they held the flag up. They were soon kicked out by our, once gym coach, now Vice Principal. A lot of people got mad, and there was some debate for a while whether it was disrespectful or not. I could argue its innocence, but some others see the other way. Nothing happened, things moved on.
Well, Damn.. Yankees
The last four months I, as well as about sixty other cast members, fifty orchestra performers, and twenty technical crew kids have been working up to this previous weekend. We put on the famous musical, "Damn Yankees." Traditionally, before the nightly performances, we do two matinees for elementary kids. However, last year we did a musical called, "Thoroughly Modern Millie," and, even though it was an entirely G-rated performance, there is reference to Chinese slave trade. So a teacher in the audience had her entire class walk out of the performance, then went to yell at our, more than respectable director for a while.
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