Chekhov's Mistress
Just One More Confirmation We Live in the Dark Ages
From Playbill Arts (via The Rest is Noise):
Tresa Waggoner, the Colorado music teacher whose attempts to introduce local children to opera drew a storm of criticism, has decided to take legal action after being forced to take administrative leave from the Bennett School.
As of January 30, following a meeting with school officials where she was told she “was not a good fit,” she has been put on paid administrative leave pending an investigation. Waggoner told PlaybillArts today that she doesn’t “want to be made the sacrificial lamb” and risk ruining her teaching career.
The controversy began after Waggoner, who teaches elementary, middle and high school students at the K-12 school in a small town about 25 miles east of Denver, tried to pique the curiosity of the first, second, and third graders in one of her classes about opera. She chose a video of Gounod’s Faust (which she found on the classroom shelf) to teach the children about bass and tenor voices, the use of props, and “trouser roles” in opera.
The latter, she says, led to accusations that the married mother of two was a lesbian promoting homosexuality; the plot of Faust, where the title character sells his soul to the devil to recapture his youth, led to her being labeled a devil worshipper.
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(Hanging my head, clucking my tongue, grieving for the romper-room teacher who will replace this gem of a woman. So. Very. Very. Sad. And, unfortunately, a sad, sorry confirmation of why so many of us find it hard to thrive outside the metropolis & why the gap between red & blue, urban and rural keeps growing. 25 miles from Denver doesn’t sound like much, but it’s enough… Sigh.)
– Anne (02/12 at 08:34 PM)
I don’t think we are actually “in” the dark ages yet, but we are certainly heading there and it is only going to get worse--you have of course heard of the new town in Florida where no birth control or condoms will be sold, abortion will be illegal and there will be no pornography....?
– Danielle (03/03 at 01:18 PM)
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- Posted by: Bud Parr
- Date: February 05, 2006
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