Galveston County Library Alliance checks out banned books

Jim, read the release from SBISD. All you post has nothing to do with the reason why SBISD canceled the trip. It's just the WOKE MOB trying to be the center of attention.[rolleyes]

If the theater was really concerned they would offer free tickets to any parent or child in SBISD. Then the parents of younger kids would have to cope with a child seeing a show that has James' parents killed then being sent to live with "horrible aunts". At least Bambi still had his father......

Is Main Street theater offering free tickets?

Yes, tickets were available for parents thru the school, because it's a performance for schools and the adults need to be OKed by the schools to attend. The theater has also increased security because of threats.

A Texas school district canceled a field trip to see a performance of “James and the Giant Peach” after a single parent complained that actors were dressed in drag. “Drag is a different art form,” said Shannon Emerick, the theater’s marketing director. “There is a whole art form that is drag. The amazing thing is the kids just believe the story. They’re not interested in any agendas or anything else anyone thinks is going on.” A Spring Branch parent agreed and said that shouldn’t matter either way. "Drag is not a big deal — it’s theater, it’s art,” said parent Cheri Thomas. “It’s been part of our culture for years.”

Jim, the schools if they attended would have to pay for the tickets.

And the rest you post is not from the school. Why don't you believe what SBISD is saying? Jim just wants to believe what the WOKE MOB is posting.....[rolleyes]

Many of the teachers are familiar with Roald Dahl’s classic story of a boy named James who finds a magical peach. Some had already seen the play. So why did the district cancel the field trip? The decision was made after a few of the parents, one or two, raised concerns that some actors play both male and female roles. Instead of canceling for all, they should have made it possible for a student to see the make-believe play, if their parents said OK. Parents could attend if they were approved by the school. Most of the actors play insects. The Glowworm is asked, are you a male and she answers no she female, because she glows.

But as fun as it can be to laugh about the hypocrisy here, we have to remember who loses in all of this. When books are banned, when history is whitewashed, when field trips are canceled, when decisions are made for everyone else’s children based on what isn’t right for one child, it’s the kids who lose.

Roald Dahl’s book had been altered for the play. It was not true to the original with a WOKE revision.

Most books have been altered for plays. Same is true for movies.

Roald Dahl is not happy with the revisions.

February 24, 2023: Publisher rolls back proposed changes to Roald Dahl books after backlash. "It's not unusual to review the language used alongside updating other details," a spokesman for The Roald Dahl Story Company said. "Our guiding principle throughout has been to maintain the storylines, characters, and the irreverence and sharp-edged spirit of the original text." Which one of the charters in James and the Giant Peach do you find not acceptable? Most of them are bugs. James Henry Trotter, The Centipede, Miss Spider, The Old-Green-Grasshopper, The Earthworm, The Ladybug, Aunt Spiker, Aunt Sponge, The Cloud-Men, The Silkworm or The Glow-worm?

Have you even read the book, watched the movie or seen the play? I have and it is made into a wonderful book, movie and play, just like his other books.

In this production they changed things.... so it's NOT like the original. The WOKE mob would enjoy it. The author would not.

Carlos Ponce Apr 29, 2023 7:17pm :

"Roald Dahl is not happy with the revisions."

You must be talking to the dead again. Roald Dahl, died in 1990 at the age of 74.

Jim, based n what he said BEFORE HE DIED he is not happy with ANY CHANGES.

There is existence after what we call "death". Only atheists don't believe so.

If one is upset with the IRS for having armed agents, the agencies below will also upset you. Many of the people that are upset are the same one's that keep bringing up the right to carry firearms and have as many guns and ammo as you want.

“During a nine-year period through 2014, 67 agencies unaffiliated with the Department of Defense spent $1.48 billion on guns and ammo. Of that total, $335.1 million was spent by agencies traditionally viewed as regulatory or administrative, such as the Smithsonian Institution and the U.S. Mint.” Between 2005 and 2014, the Department of Veterans Affairs spent $11.66 million, including over $200,000 on night-vision equipment, $2.3 million for body armor, over $2 million on guns, and $3.6 million for ammunition; The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service “spent $4.77 million purchasing shotguns, .308 caliber rifles, night-vision goggles, propane cannons, liquid explosives, pyro supplies, buckshot, LP gas cannons, drones, remote-control helicopters, thermal cameras, military waterproof thermal infrared scopes and more.”

The Environmental Protection Agency spent $3.1 million on guns, ammunition and military-style equipment; The Food and Drug Administration has 183 heavily armed “special agents.”

The law enforcement branch of the IRS, known as the Criminal Investigation (CI) division. IRS special agents within the CI division are the only IRS employees who are authorized by law to carry and use firearms. IRS-CI investigates financial crimes, money laundering, tax-related identity theft and terrorist financing efforts. IRS says that special agents "Carry a firearm; must be prepared to protect him/herself or others from physical attacks at any time and without warning and use firearms in life-threatening situations; must be willing to use force up to and including the use of deadly force." Additionally, IRS-CI special agents must be "willing and able to participate in arrests, execution of search warrants, and other dangerous assignments." It adds that special agents need to maintain "a level of fitness necessary to effectively respond to life-threatening situations on the job."

How many firearms and rounds of ammunition per agent, Jim? Dollar amounts you provide don't tell the whole story.[rolleyes]

"The objection to 'Bathe the Cat' is that it depicts a family with two dads." So Bailey would have a problem with "The Bible".

“Have you not read that He Who made them in the first place made them man and woman? It says, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and his mother and will live with his wife. The two will become one.’ "

“It is inevitable that stumbling blocks will come, but woe to the one through whom they come! It would be better for him to have a millstone hung around his neck and to be thrown into the sea than to cause one of these little ones to stumble."

Bailey should not worry about a millstone....

No, but they can go to an R rated movie if accompanied by a parent or guardian.

Are you telling us 10 year olds can check out a questionable book only if accompanied by a parent or guardian?[unsure]