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LanternWaste

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10. Shallow minded adults tend to forget other places for that include history lessons

Reply to damnedifIknow (Original post)

Tue May 19, 2015, 01:13 PM

May 2015

"shouldn't depict violence, sex or drugs. The place for that art is in adult world."

Shallow minded adults tend to forget other places for that include history lessons on the Holocaust and Civil Rights. And lit classes handing out On the Road and All Quiet on the Western Front and the Diary of Anne Frank.

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Was students' police brutality art inappropriate for school show? [View all] damnedifIknow May 2015 OP

That display is absolutely, 100% fine for a high school. Nye Bevan May 2015 #1

I agree damnedifIknow May 2015 #4

Appropriate at the HS level FLPanhandle May 2015 #2

It's an interesting question el_bryanto May 2015 #3

Appropriate and valuable. nt tblue37 May 2015 #5

In my opinion, students shouldn't lose their right to freedom of expression Maedhros May 2015 #6

"Art is not a mirror in which to reflect reality, but a hammer with which to shape it." KamaAina May 2015 #7

I support this totally. The first commenter in the article is so wrong. This maybe should be an jwirr May 2015 #8

Good art is seldom "appropriate." Oneironaut May 2015 #9

Shallow minded adults tend to forget other places for that include history lessons LanternWaste May 2015 #10

It is a shame that police brutality is a subject of debate. Downwinder May 2015 #11