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Reason number 196 for seeking a private school education for Johnny and Mary

Just how stupid do you have to be to have thought of this… for your grade-school DRAMA class… which in this post-modern liberal-left world apparently, like everything else, revolves around “feelings” and “emotions” rather than common sense… and, you know, DRAMA lessons. 

(I added some probably superfluous personal notes and highlighting.)

Drama teacher faces investigation over Virginia massacre re-enactment

Gwen Preston, Vancouver Sun
Published: Monday, April 23, 2007

The Delta school board is planning an investigation after a popular

[Joel scratches chin, wondering… why is this important?]

elementary school teacher had students in her Grade 6 and 7 drama class reenact parts of the Virginia Tech shootings.

“The teacher was told that it was a completely inappropriate lesson and that it was certainly a lack of judgment on her part,” said Doug Thomson, principal of South Park elementary, where the incident occurred.

The students had been creating tableaus

[oh my… how French]

, or frozen scenes, from newspaper headlines for a few weeks as a drama class exercise. On Friday, the teacher, whose name has not been released

[why not?!]

, chose a headline about the shooting rampage at Virginia Tech.

“The purpose of the lesson was to give the kids an opportunity to address their feelings about violence and about the tragedy,” Thomson said. “But to involve students in such a lesson was inappropriate.”

[You don’t say.  And here I thought this was a post-grad psychoanalysis class rather than a grade-school drama class.]

Thomson said the teacher came to him after the class because one student—a Korean girl—was upset about the exercise. The Virginia Tech shooter was a Korean immigrant.

The school immediately brought in a multicultural worker who spoke Korean so Korean students could talk about their feelings in their first language.

There are a number of Korean students at South Park elementary because the Delta school district participates in a homestay program for international students, a number of whom come from Korea to study in Canada.

[…] Delta school district assistant superintendent Garnet Ayres said the teacher’s actions will be investigated, but the concern right now is for the well-being of the children.

[If you’re concerned about the well-being of the kids, then fire the teacher.  Sorry for being rational.]

“We’re dealing with young kids in this situation and, given the substance of this, I think we need to go very softly and thoughtfully because enough damage has been done,” he said.

[But you keep that teacher?!  Oh yeah… you have to go “softly” and “thoughtfully”… because you’re in liberal-la-la-land… oh yeah and the teacher is a member of a HUGE militant and (I think!) Marxist labor union… so be gentle with the teacher—sacrifice the kids if anything…]

Ayres said the teacher “deeply regrets any pain she may have caused” in trying to help her students talk about violence

[…as a grade-school DRAMA teacher.  Maybe to alleviate her “deep regret”, she needs to re-enact it all, to give her “an opportunity to address her feelings”.  (Then fire her.)]

[…]

Of course right after this class, the kids may well have had a class wherein they were taught how to put a condom on a cucumber… so…

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