Shakespeare too sexual for Florida’s schools?

[SomeRandom]

Okay sorry for weird title, but this story has confused the hell out of me since I heard about it.

Apparently schools, in order to comply with the “don’t say gay bill” (?) DeSantis has enacted for schools, many schools are now heavily editing what parts of Shakespeare is being taught. Only allowing certain sections of his plays to be read for class, due to how bawdy they often are (which they absolutely are.) Which seems beyond dumb to me, but maybe that’s because my uncle (an English teacher) heavily drove it into my head to laud Shakes lol

I’m not American so I can’t make heads nor tails of this one guys. It just seems so….bizarre to me.
Help me out here, guys.

The Observer view on Ron DeSantis, Shakespeare and sex: ‘Man, proud man… Most ignorant of what he’s most assur’d’ | Observer editorial

Application of the Florida governor’s ‘don’t say gay’ law has led to the banning of plays such as Romeo and Juliet in some schools

www.theguardian.com

 

[Orbit]

Okay sorry for weird title, but this story has confused the hell out of me since I heard about it.

Apparently schools, in order to comply with the “don’t say gay bill” (?) DeSantis has enacted for schools, many schools are now heavily editing what parts of Shakespeare is being taught. Only allowing certain sections of his plays to be read for class, due to how bawdy they often are (which they absolutely are.) Which seems beyond dumb to me, but maybe that’s because my uncle (an English teacher) heavily drove it into my head to laud Shakes lol

I’m not American so I can’t make heads nor tails of this one guys. It just seems so….bizarre to me.
Help me out here, guys.

The Observer view on Ron DeSantis, Shakespeare and sex: ‘Man, proud man… Most ignorant of what he’s most assur’d’ | Observer editorial

Application of the Florida governor’s ‘don’t say gay’ law has led to the banning of plays such as Romeo and Juliet in some schools

www.theguardian.com

It's the Neo-Puritans aka the American Taliban enforcing "decency". By this logic the Bible should be banned from school libraries because it contains the Song of Solomon.

 

[rosends]

Shakespeare ranges from the clean to the smarmy to the downright filthy. I can understand concern, but there are plays which are substantially less problematic than others. Choose one of those and teach the whole play.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Help me out here, guys.

It's the same sort of stupidity that invented corn flakes and Graham crackers.

 

[Viker]

Okay sorry for weird title, but this story has confused the hell out of me since I heard about it.

Apparently schools, in order to comply with the “don’t say gay bill” (?) DeSantis has enacted for schools, many schools are now heavily editing what parts of Shakespeare is being taught. Only allowing certain sections of his plays to be read for class, due to how bawdy they often are (which they absolutely are.) Which seems beyond dumb to me, but maybe that’s because my uncle (an English teacher) heavily drove it into my head to laud Shakes lol

I’m not American so I can’t make heads nor tails of this one guys. It just seems so….bizarre to me.
Help me out here, guys.

The Observer view on Ron DeSantis, Shakespeare and sex: ‘Man, proud man… Most ignorant of what he’s most assur’d’ | Observer editorial

Application of the Florida governor’s ‘don’t say gay’ law has led to the banning of plays such as Romeo and Juliet in some schools

www.theguardian.com

I wish conservatives would pay attention.

Liberal cancel culture is an annoying pain in the butt. But, current conservative culture of erasure is becoming a authoritarian nightmare set in law.

I've said it before, I will say it again. Woke these days does sort of suck sometimes but anti-woke is worse.

 

[Secret Chief]

Well if Michelangelo is porn then this seems pretty consistent.

 

[Quintessence]

My state has also enacted rot-headed laws interfering with educators and libraries.

What's really fantastic about this is that the state department of education has declined to provide any real guidance on what should and shouldn't be pulled from collections. Given how hostile the government has been to education lately, this puts districts in a very uncomfortable position. The rot-heads who wrote and approved these laws are ignorant about how educators and libraries actually operate. Pornography has never been in public school collections. More explicit content that wasn't pornography was always carefully curated and reviewed by educators and librarians. These laws were not necessary. All they have accomplished is provided a basis for "conservative" parents to wage war on educators under the pretense of these laws if there is even a whiff of anything in a collection they have a problem with. So the choice our educators have is: (1) uphold free access to books and information, as is the American way, regardless of the threat of discipline termination, or lawsuit, or (2) remove a bunch of stuff from collections that really shouldn't be because of a few rot-headed idiots not realizing their laws in effect result in state sanctioned censorship.

It's worth noting that the law approved in my state specifically carved out an exception for "religious texts." And we all know by "religious texts" they don't mean the sorts of things that I, as a Druid, would point to and call a religious text. They mean the Bible. These laws are created to pander to authoritative Christians who want to impose their way of life on the masses... instead of just monitoring the books their kids bring home themselves. Parental choice by depriving other parents of theirs. That's how they roll.

 

[SomeRandom]

Well if Michelangelo is porn then this seems pretty consistent.

Lol wait what??

 

[Estro Felino]

No...not literature.
The only sacred thing left...please...do not touch it.

 

[SomeRandom]

It's the same sort of stupidity that invented corn flakes and Graham crackers.

Graham crackers?
Do I dare ask lol

 

[Subduction Zone]

It's the Neo-Puritans aka the American Taliban enforcing "decency". By this logic the Bible should be banned from school libraries because it contains the Song of Solomon.

Not to mention what it says about donkey dicks and bukake.

 

[Subduction Zone]

Graham crackers?
Do I dare ask lol

Both were made partially to fight the perils of masturbation.

 

[SomeRandom]

Both were made partially to fight the perils of masturbation.

Lmao!!! I knew that about Cornflakes. Didn’t realise Graham Crackers had the same goal

 

[Subduction Zone]

Graham crackers?
Do I dare ask lol

Here is an article that deals with the origins of both graham crackers and corn flakes:

The Creepy Origins Of Graham Crackers And Corn Flakes

"Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue." —Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary In A Nutshell Masturbation,

knowledgenuts.com

 

[Viker]

No...not literature.
The only sacred thing left...please...do not touch it.

That's DeSantis, someone you've glorified before, and his "conservative" allies. You should be proud! This is American right wing reactionarism! Yay!

 

[Viker]

It's the same sort of stupidity that invented corn flakes and Graham crackers.

S'mores are of the Devil! Hail S'mores!

 

[Secret Chief]

Lol wait what??

"A principal of a Florida school has been forced to resign after a parent complained that sixth-grade students were exposed to pornography.
The complaint arose from a Renaissance art lesson where students were shown Michelangelo's statue of David."

- Principal resigns after Florida students shown Michelangelo statue

 

[Callisto]

Okay sorry for weird title, but this story has confused the hell out of me since I heard about it.

Apparently schools, in order to comply with the “don’t say gay bill” (?) DeSantis has enacted for schools, many schools are now heavily editing what parts of Shakespeare is being taught. Only allowing certain sections of his plays to be read for class, due to how bawdy they often are (which they absolutely are.) Which seems beyond dumb to me, but maybe that’s because my uncle (an English teacher) heavily drove it into my head to laud Shakes lol

I’m not American so I can’t make heads nor tails of this one guys. It just seems so….bizarre to me.
Help me out here, guys.

The Observer view on Ron DeSantis, Shakespeare and sex: ‘Man, proud man… Most ignorant of what he’s most assur’d’ | Observer editorial

Application of the Florida governor’s ‘don’t say gay’ law has led to the banning of plays such as Romeo and Juliet in some schools

www.theguardian.com

Florida is handily making a name for itself as the place whole brains go to die. Shakespeare wrote nearly 40 plays, I've yet to hear of any school other than perhaps college-level theatre schools even covering so much as a handful, at best. This is just another non-issue these defects hope to make something out of.

 

[fantome profane]

Shakespeare ranges from the clean to the smarmy to the downright filthy. I can understand concern, but there are plays which are substantially less problematic than others. Choose one of those and teach the whole play.

I still don't understand how the words will cause harm. We are talking about high students. If they are capable of reading Shakespeare I think they can handle it.

I think the danger of not reading great literature is infinitely greater than the danger of reading it.

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

Shakespeare ranges from the clean to the smarmy to the downright filthy. I can understand concern, but there are plays which are substantially less problematic than others. Choose one of those and teach the whole play.

Why ... because we don't want our youth marred by exposure to the sexual deviancy on display in Romeo and Juliet? Far better that we bow to a noxious homophobe.