When Amy Hightower and other parents of theatre kids at Sherman High School in Texas filed into a school board meeting on Monday night to fight for their kids, they never thought they’d win.
Parents say they re still worried about the right-leaning school board and the influence of conservative politics and religion in local public schools.
Max Hightower, 17, was removed as an actor from Sherman High School s upcoming production last month - causing an uproar that culminated with a crowded school board meeting this week.
A Texas school board voted to reinstate the original cast and script of a local high school’s production of “Oklahoma!” after school officials put restrictions in place that a parent said cost his transgender student a role in the play.
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