[gringo_in_Akita]

This is Amherst, Massachusetts- the same town that got caught up in a controversy surrounding the public display of the American flag just a few days after 9/11. Also, this same school system refused to allow students to perform 'A West Side Story' a few years back, deeming it "offensive" to Puerto Rican students.

[Lokibob]

Somebody explain how putting a play on in a tax built high school, heated by tax provided $$$$, cleaned by tax paid janitors, etc, etc, isn't using tax $$$$.

[tioga]

-time for homeschooling........

[NYC GOP Chick]

I'm just surprised that this isn't in Northampton...

Hussin, the only committee member who spoke publicly to the issue, said, ''I'm happy to have my daughter in a school that might help prevent her from being ... part of (a) statistic'' of women who are abused.

Huh? How does putting on a play that sensationalizes the use of anatomically correct (and a few crude) terms for "cooter" prevent a woman from being abused? Some things are just not meant to be talked about in public, and this is one of them...

''I'm here to support the school and the efforts of these young women, who are incredibly courageous,'' said Ludmilla Pavlova, whose son attends Amherst Regional Middle School.

What's so courageous about getting up on stage and talking about genitalia?

[martin_fierro]

When I was in high school, all I could think about were vagina dialogues.