Congratulations, Justine!!

We went to the Thespian awards night for drama the other night. Justine got initiated into the high school's Thespian troupe. She also got an award for 'best techie' for the play 'Our Town'. She signed up to work backstage (it was her first play) and ended up being the back stage director!! The first freshman in memory to do that job!! Way to go, Justine!! She was awesome walking around backstage with her head set on. She's a natural!

In other news, Brig brought home a permission slip for Social Studies to watch a movie. What movie would they be showing to 12 and 13 year olds?? "Hotel Rwanda"???!!! I think not! We looked up a movie synopsis online and Brig didn't read 1/3 of it when he said he didn't want to watch that movie (I think the word 'breast' was enough for him) - even if he did want to watch it, I wouldn't have given permission!! It is a graphically violent film that also contains nudity and foul language. There has to be a better way to teach the horror and depravity of genocide/holocaust without 3 class periods of disturbing, graphic violence. Anyway - I went to the school in person and spoke to the principal. He was unaware of the planned movie showing - apparently the teacher is a rookie and hadn't quite followed procedure for approving a PG-13 movie, so hopefully that little activity won't be happening. They were supposed to start the movie today, so I will find out for sure when Brig gets home. It's a crazy world...