Tommy Tainant
Diamond Member
Florida school district to only teach excerpts from Shakespeare under new regulations
The full plays have been removed from the curriculum following the passing of a number of laws restricting sexual content in school reading materials.
news.sky.com
Pupils in a Florida school district will only be reading excerpts of Shakespeare rather than the full plays after new guidelines regarding sexual content in the curriculum were brought in.
Teachers in Hillsborough County have been told parts of the Bard's classics contain sections which are sexual in nature and therefore cannot be taught following the passing of the Parental Rights in Education Act.
I suppose that you could condense any work of art to its bare bones. The Reduced Shakespeare Company did it for years in the UK. But they did it for comic effect and a knowledge of the plays was needed to get the most out of it.
Florida is screwing up its kids at the behest of extreme right wing crazies. Why bother teaching anything at all ?
Michelangelo.
Milton
and now Shakespeare are deemed too much for kids accoerding to moronic Florida republicans.
There isnt much else left to ban. Maybe the kids will end up watching monster trucks and wrestling ?