“Where you are standing now is a cliff edge…”
DECEMBER 26, 2010
“…and there’s a cold wind blowing.”
An insightful group of students from Jamaica High School and Queens Collegiate recently wrote a play about school reform in New York City, inspired by the Greek tragedy “Antigone.” The students were all set to stage their production, but administrators– worried about the implications of their powerful critique of local “reform” efforts– decided to ban the play. So much for the First Amendment…
You can read reports of the situation at The Huffington Post and on The Answer Sheet. Full text of the play is included below.
Declassified: Struggle for Existence (We Used to Eat Lunch Together)
Conceived of by students from Jamaica High School and Queens Collegiate High School