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Peaces@infosec.pub to Politics@beehaw.org · 2 years ago

Hillsborough schools cut back on Shakespeare, citing new Florida rules

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Hillsborough schools cut back on Shakespeare, citing new Florida rules

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Peaces@infosec.pub to Politics@beehaw.org · 2 years ago
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The decision is aimed at better performance on state tests and avoiding sexual content found in some of the Bard’s work.
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    “This isn’t from the Tree of Knowledge. You won’t find one in the orchards of Heavenly Hillsboro. Birches, beeches, butternuts. A few ignorance bushes. No Tree of Knowledge.”

    Inherit the Wind

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      https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/i/inherit-the-wind/character-analysis/e-k-hornbeck

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    What are they afraid of? Country matters? Nothing?

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    I was going to suggest Twelfth Night, for the dirty pun embedded in Malvolio’s letter, but then I realized the FTM cross-dressing would count as WrongThink in Florida. Sigh.

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