What is with parents these days?
 

Colorado Parent object to student's exposure to opera video of Faust
the story here

God forbid they get exposed to classical music and maybe enjoy it? These will be the same parents who will think it's okay for their kids to go watch tripe on television, movies or video games.

Donna who is an opera lover and appreciates that most operatic plots are patterned after real life, violent, raunchy and crazy. At least the music is great!

Good gravy. Are these parents saying that they themselves have no impact on their kids lives whatsoever? Can't they just explain to the kid, after they watch it, how it doesn't fit in to their own personal beliefs? Sheesh. Take some control of your kids and start parenting. Everything else it to blame for your kid possibly being maladjusted in the future. Bleh.

'Faust' is wonderful.

Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.

This is the opera I want to see

Sorry, I thought I was done ranting...

What do these parents want? Their kids to grow up in a world that only has sanitized parent approved content in it? That ain't gonna happen. Now this teacher is probably going to leave and be replaced by someone who will cater to their whims. That just stinks. I hope these kids grow up, move out and go to college, because they ain't learning about life from their parents. Their kids are going to be narrowminded, scared, unprepared automatons who won't know how to handle seeing someone in Goth makeup the first time they step into a Hot Topic.

Then again, this is sometimes how a rebel is raised. ;)

Colorado, huh? I wonder of the real fear these parents are suppressing is the fear that their little boys will turn into big fags because they listened to an opera...?

Amendment 2 anyone.... :rolleyes:

I have listened to opera. I am not gay.

Parents are stupid. A while back we hads a parent here in Phoenix mad that their kid had to read Tom Sawyer. The "N" word is in it, you know. Made her child feel degraded. Never mind that one of, if not the major theme of the book is the stupidity of racism.

I wonder if that kid in Colorado can listen to Charlie Daniels? "Well, the devil went down to Georgia, he was lookin' for a soul to steal....."

I knew a guy in college who refused to play Hotel California on his guitar because it was about cults and referred to the devil.

My parents wanted me to take down a poster I had of Prince in my room because he looked like a devil. :D
This was like 1984 or so... right around 'Purple Rain'...

I also wasn't allowed to listen to Ozzy. "He's Satanic, you know."
Ha ha.
:D

I've got another friend who grew up going to Disneyland at least once a year with his family. Then he went in jr. high or high school with some friends, sans family. His friends said, "Let's go on the Haunted Mansion." To which he said, "The what?"

His parents had not even let him know it existed.

Mom lectured nonstop about the evils of masterbation and now I suffer from tennis elbow. Tabooism never works.