Rhode Island's WPRO reports from Pilgrim High School, Warwick:
Warwick School Superintendent Peter Horoschak is stepping in after a student mural at Pilgrim High School was deemed inappropriate and painted over because it depicted a man holding the hand of a woman and child.
A parent of a Pilgrim High School student who first reported the incident to WPRO's John DePetro Show. The mural was meant to depict the life of a man and it ended with the scene with the man, woman and a child. The student artist, 17-year-old Liz Bierendy, said that she depicted the man and woman has married with wedding rings. According to Horoshack’s press release the scene was painted over because “some of the members of the Pilgrim High School community suggested that the depiction of a young man’s development from boyhood through adulthood as displayed may not represent the life experiences of many of the students at Pilgrim High School.”
According to the release, the assistant principal approached the Bierendy after the concern was raised from the school and “asked her to look at other ways to show the outcome of the subject’s progression to adulthood.”
After consulting other administrators, Superintendent Horoschak asked the assistant principal to meet with the student again and discuss her views on the proposed changes to the mural. The assistant principal reported that the student “preferred the original idea” however she “would take the weekend to think about any changes to the original sketch.” Horoschak asked that the Bierendy’s ideas be respected and “that she be allowed to finish the mural as she visualized it.”
It really should be much harder to come up with a short news story that perfectly illustrates the strange American mix of inhumanity, empty bureacratism, vapidity and mindless brutality that is today's leftist order, but apparently not. The almost laughably bad English this news story was written in, adding to the charming Young Pioneer vibe the now-customary incompetence found at all levels in modern American life, just makes it that much better.
I couldn't BELIEVE it when I first heard about this story.
ReplyDeleteYour comment there is spot on, Jourdan. I thank God I started school in the 60's. The current generation has my sympathy in dealing with the insane "policies" that schools today enforce (invent may be a better word). I read a story like this and think that cultural brain-washing can't get any worse; then I hear next week's story and realize it can and does...
Distilled to its raw element, "The student artist, 17-year-old Liz Bierendy" ... has no rights. None. Art is only "expressive" if it is "progressive." The commissars have spoken.
ReplyDeleteSee, not everyone can express themselves. One may try, but it will be deleted ... unless they adhere to the edicts of the commissariat, say like Andres Serrano. You know, very worthwhile stuff like a bottle of piss with a toy crucifix in it, photographed and displayed. Huzzah.
Florrie ... I entered public school in the 1940's. We said the "Pledge of Allegiance" before the flag every morning. We followed that with prayers for the safety of our neighbors and the nation.
ReplyDeleteWe'd just bled a lot in a world war, and went on to bleed again in Korea, so the observances seemed spot on.
Good luck with any of that today. Might offend some Neanderthal in a hovel in Peshawar or Kandahar. Or some piss ant fool in Hollywood or NYC. Can't have it. No sir.
Is anyone else listening to this bull shit interview with the Florida Prosecutor, Corey?
ReplyDeleteYoung Pioneer vibe...
ReplyDeleteSpot on awesome.
Just an observation... the whole culture war thing isn't lost yet; the linked story is a story. If the war was lost, it wouldn't be a story.
I'll also note that the superintendent injected a bit of sanity:
Horoschak asked that the Bierendy’s ideas be respected and “that she be allowed to finish the mural as she visualized it.”
That said, things are going to get a lot worse before they get better.
And may the sun shine on the other side.
DeleteWhat do you want to bet that if the mural had ended with two guys or two women holding hands with a pair of kids, one white and one black, it would have been acceptable to rabble?
ReplyDeleteSee ... there's one problem with the above scenario ... sans male/female contribution, there are NO kids to display, and over time, no humans to inhabit earthly space.
To criticize a kid's depiction of a reality life and continuance is to display massive ignorance. That seems to be a PC strong point these days.