They seem to be in South Jordan.
Senator Aaron Osmond gave a letter to the school board imploring them to apologize for putting on the play “Dead Man Walking”. (More info here and here). Larry Short, councilman for the city, asked them to apologize too.
The school board is in a frenzy trying to figure out how to prevent offending “anyone” again.
Because, only one (1, uno, amháin, eine, een, biri, jeden) comment out of the 700 the school district got was a complaint. Until over two month after the play ended and Gayle Ruzicka held a press conference.
Said some BS about it being because of violent undertones, unacceptable language and smoking cigarettes.
But the first thing the Jordan School District did when the controversy broke out was to “clarify it’s stance on the death penalty”, and 54” of newspaper space starting on the front page of the Salt Lake Tribune today was devoted to an article with the headline “Critical thinking was goal of controversial play at Bingham High Project requires schools to present well-rounded look at death penalty.”
So in my humble opinion, this is all because some group of teachers, parents and administrators wanted to get their students and patrons to really think about their beliefs about the death penalty. And that’s a double-header boo-boo. Getting people to think and questioning the death penalty.
So the Jordan School District apologized, every school play from here on in will have to be scrutinized through The Utah Eagle Forum’s eyes and never again shall the minions be forced to think on their own.
All is right in the land of Zion.
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