To think that GCSE drama productions should not involve sexual content?

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Or am I an old prude? I'm all for sex education and stuff, but not sure about classes of teenagers making up and acting out plays with sexual content.

Background, have just been reading this employment appeals tribunal decision concerning the dismissal of drama teachers who allowed their class to put on a production depicting sexual abuse, incest and masturbation and my initial reaction was wtf were they thinking; but presumably they must have had some reason to think it was ok?

www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKEAT/2012/0155_12_2310.html

Note, lots of the decision is about whether the right process was followed rather than the acceptability of the production per se.

Well you shouldn't have been 'pushed' into anything. However, I believe teens have the right to rage.

YABU - but I know where you're coming from

I wonder how many parents would be happy for their 15or 16 yo sons to play a rapist of paedophile.i certainly wouldn't allow it.

"I think most 15 and 16 year olds are far more thoughtful and responsible than you are giving them credit for FromEsme. I also find that you get far more from teenagers when you give them responsiblity and trust them."

I can imagine these words or words like them coming from the mouths of people who want to exploit them. You may be well-intentioned, mumsnot. But a lot of people who are NOT well-intentioned use the same rationale and the outcomes may be similar.

FromEsme makes some excellent points here. The mumsnot some of the things you say sound naive. Well-intentioned but naive.

Well, Brycie you and I are never going to agree about education are we?

I don't know what you mean the mumsnot.

I mean that we have disagreed on threads about education before Brycie and it seems that our philosophy is very different.
But I'm not naive. I teach teenagers and I have teenagers of my own. My beliefs are based on working with and living with teenagers. I don't think yours are, are they?

I'm sorry I'd forgotten

That's good.

themumsnot the real test is to see whether you and Brycie differ on dog poo in bins.

FromEsme - what is Brycie's view on dog poo in bins? I'm not sure it's a subject I've ever given much consideration to, not having a dog.

Oh nice - a bit of bitching and thread carry over. How mature.

Wasn't intending to bitch, Brycie sorry if it came across that way. I genuinely don't know what FromEsme is referring to there.

Ok that's sweet. Doesn't matter, don't worry.

Brycie I was having a joke because I thought it was funny that you agreed with me when we'd been arguing for DAYS about another issue.

If you don't think it's fair/funny, report it.

I was thinking of starting a thread about my concerns that 16 year old dd's next production is The Threepenny Opera- it sounds as if I'm getting off lightly!

For what it's worth, the production in the tribunal case sounds completely inappropriate. And the lack of warning to the audience was a huge mistake- there would be lots of younger siblings at it apart from anything else.

Why would I report something for not being funny.

Brycie fucking hell you're hard work.

If it offended you, report it. If it didn't, then, shrug.

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