Posted on Mar 28, 2023
'My Students Were Just Devastated': Wisconsin School Bans Miley, Dolly Duet From Class Concert
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https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/wisconsin-school-bans-miley-cyrus-dolly-parton-duet-from-class-concert/3533700/#:~:text=Administrators%20at%20a%20Wisconsin%20elementary,could%20be%20perceived%20as%20controversial.%22
Administrators at a Wisconsin elementary school stopped a first-grade class from performing a Miley Cyrus and Dolly Parton duet promoting LGBTQ acceptance because the song "could be perceived as controversial."
Students at Heyer Elementary School in Waukesha had prepared a rendition of “Rainbowland" for their spring concert, but school officials struck the song from the lineup last week. Parents in the district say the decision was made because the song encourages LGBTQ acceptance and references rainbows.
Superintendent James Sebert, who did not immediately return a call on Monday, confirmed to Fox6 that administrators had removed “Rainbowland” from the first-grade concert because it might not be “appropriate for the age and maturity level of the students." He also cited a school board policy against raising controversial issues in classrooms.
Sebert has previously prohibited rainbows and pride flags from being displayed in Waukesha classrooms and suspended the school district’s equity and diversity work in 2021.
Administrators at a Wisconsin elementary school stopped a first-grade class from performing a Miley Cyrus and Dolly Parton duet promoting LGBTQ acceptance because the song "could be perceived as controversial."
Students at Heyer Elementary School in Waukesha had prepared a rendition of “Rainbowland" for their spring concert, but school officials struck the song from the lineup last week. Parents in the district say the decision was made because the song encourages LGBTQ acceptance and references rainbows.
Superintendent James Sebert, who did not immediately return a call on Monday, confirmed to Fox6 that administrators had removed “Rainbowland” from the first-grade concert because it might not be “appropriate for the age and maturity level of the students." He also cited a school board policy against raising controversial issues in classrooms.
Sebert has previously prohibited rainbows and pride flags from being displayed in Waukesha classrooms and suspended the school district’s equity and diversity work in 2021.
'My Students Were Just Devastated': Wisconsin School Bans Miley, Dolly Duet From Class Concert
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel good day Brother William, always informational and of the most interesting. Thanks for sharing, have a blessed day!
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Education is supposed to expose one to all sorts of viewpoints. Apparently not in Wisconsin though.
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MSG Thomas Currie
Education WAS supposed to educate. Today, in America (and most of the world) "education" is primarily to indoctrinate -- that shift has been going on for over fifty years.
Exposing students of "all sorts of viewpoints" IS a good thing -- but that exposure needs to be appropriate to the age and maturity level of those students. If students are not ready to comprehend and intelligently discuss a topic, simply shoving one side of the topic at them isn't 'exposure' it is indoctrination.
Let's put it on a direct level -- would YOU have supported your children in first grade being taught to sing "What Are You Fighting For", "Eve of Destruction", or "Four Dead In Ohio" for their school concert?
Exposing students of "all sorts of viewpoints" IS a good thing -- but that exposure needs to be appropriate to the age and maturity level of those students. If students are not ready to comprehend and intelligently discuss a topic, simply shoving one side of the topic at them isn't 'exposure' it is indoctrination.
Let's put it on a direct level -- would YOU have supported your children in first grade being taught to sing "What Are You Fighting For", "Eve of Destruction", or "Four Dead In Ohio" for their school concert?
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
MSG Thomas Currie Why not? Odds are that my kids heard and sang along with Eve of Distruction blaring from the stereo long before first grade. My kids learned early they don't live in a bubble and that things neither I nor they may like happen. If you like it embrace it, if you don't like it avoid it, but don't deny others the opportunity to do whatever "It" may be.
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Good for the Wisconsin School IMHO..., Chip. Children in the first grade should not be subject to this type of music... I like Dolly Parton, but Miley not so much... And this whole LGBTQ thingamabob is antithetical to humanity...
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
The problem is if those kids wanted to perform it they've already been subjected to this type of music. Anticipation is a great way to teach kids, disappointing them not necessarily so.
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