Takeda Shingen |
09-25-12 08:19 PM |
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Originally Posted by yubba
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So why do find the need to cut and edit my quotes, one would think you work for the network media..
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I don't cut and edit. You post, I reply and then you edit all your other stuff in. To be honest, it's not fair.
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Originally Posted by August
I agree with the parents. Whoever came up with this idea ought not to be teaching our children. At very least someone ought to educate the children on the very bloody history behind what they were singing and dancing about.
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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk
But is appropriate at a HS football game? Best left to the HS theater company?
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And I agree with those sentiments. While I don't feel that there was indoctrination taking place, I would not have included all of the symbols of the Soviet Union. Much like the way that the swastika is muted with the more honorable Iron Cross in our simulations, one can mute the Hammer and Sickle with the Red Star and still achieve effect.
Not having seen the field show, nor being familiar with the teacher and the program, I can't say if the history of the Bolshevik Revolution was covered. I would hope it was, but if I remember my days of running a marching band program, most of the details of what the show is 'about' gets lots in the day-to-day details of rehearsal. Les Miserables was our theme one year, and to my shame I don't think that we ever really covered the show itself nor the book that it was based upon. It ended up just being music that we played; pretty much devoid of context and meaning. A failing on my part more than anything, but the climate of band competitions in Pennsylvania tends to force one to concentrate more on scoring and results than actual education. This was a big reason for my leaving high school education.
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