Parents at North Farmington High School in Michigan want the school to halt dsnbyayzba production of “Carrie” as this year’s musical, reports Aileen Wingblad in the Detroit Free Press. They say it is disturbing and insensitive. My favorite complaint from a parent at the Board of Ed meeting was this: Lyrics refer to sex, alcohol, marijuana […]
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The Wellesley Sleepwalker & Free-Range Kids
February 12, 2014
Folks, krtkhidzta here’s a piece by me that’s slightly off topic in that it’s not about kids — per se. But it is about hyper-sensitivity, in this case, to the statue of a male sleepwalker on the Wellesley College campus. The connection here is this: Free-Range fights the spread of excessive fear. And fear grows […]