School: Sorry About Hammer & Sickle (HS Marching Band Commemorates Communist Revolution)
School: Sorry About Hammer & Sickle (HS Marching Band Commemorates Communist Revolution)
The stupidity —it boggles the mind.
Two words: private school. Preferably in your home.
Perhaps they were just preparing to participate in the Inauguration parade, should Obama win.
Wait a minute, it was a meeting at a public location with public officials and the meeting was private? Someone needs to generate a FOIA and demand to know under what law the meeting could be held in private.
It doesn't matter what was meant or taught by a teacher ... what people see is communism.
If a straight man puts on a dress and make-up, do you immediately say, "Just a spoof .. he's straight" ?
and to think, they could have lined up and executed the Principal and his family as part of the halftime show
So I can see why they were forced to look to Soviet Russia for interesting historical themes.
Anyone know if in the performance they shoot Anistasia separately or with the rest of her family.
Even if it was a history piece on the Russian revolution (that, ahem, let to Communist rule and the slaughter of 10’s of millions of people) and the “hammer and sickle” are a part of that history, it’s just not very smart. Imagine the outrage if someone did a “history of 1930’s Germany” and included Swastikas and train cars...
My personal dealings with school officials have taught me that not only are they stupid, but they are very hard-nosed and stubborn, and tend to dig-in whenever you’ve caught them red handed.
Only one thing is effective in my experience: public humiliation. Using the internet, radio talk shows, social media or whatever you have to do.
Parents Object to “characterization”..??
No... they objected to it being a COMMUNIST CELEBRATION
Next year they can do A Tribute to Tienanmen with tanks rolling over people..............
In defense of Dimitri Shostakovitch he lived during extremely turbulent times in Russia and later the Soviet Union. Many of his compositions were banned by the government and during the purge many of his mentors and associates were imprisoned and later shot. Under duress and fear for his family he spoke in support of the government but his music told a different story. Critics would later write that he would put coded messages in his compositions to ridicule the government. He wrote compositions in support of Jewish peoples during times of anti semitism.
Instead of this being in support of the Russian revolution maybe the school should have promoted the music as the triumph of one very timid man's disagreement with the government that oppressed him.
The marching band was playing symphonies and ballet music? I want to see the string bass players march. Better yet, the harp player marching.
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This is nothing short of Communist indoctrination. The band officials need to be outed and publicly scorned. They do this sort of thing because they think no one will notice. We need to make an example of them.