A couple of Oak Harbor High School students went before the school board this week to protest the principal’s decision to veto the drama club’s decision to perform “The Laramie Project,” a play that depicts a community’s reaction to a young gay man’s murder. The play was deemed to be neither age nor school appropriate, even though it’s been performed at schools across the state and the nation and contains material that is straight from the nightly news.
A couple of Oak Harbor High School students went before the school board this week to protest the principal’s decision to veto the drama club’s decision to perform “The Laramie Project,” a play that depicts a community’s reaction to a young gay man’s murder. The play was deemed to be neither age nor school appropriate, even though it’s been performed at schools across the state and the nation and contains material that is straight from the nightly news.