1.0 link 110299 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-lagravenese/emfreedomem-banned_b_110299.html In 1996, Shakespeare's Twelfth Night was removed from classrooms after a school board passed a "prohibition of alternative lifestyle instruction" act. Apparently, a young female character disguised as a boy was a danger to the youth of Merrimack, New Hampshire. Although teenagers in the 80's had survived Boy George, for teenagers in the 90's Shakespeare would have been lethal.

In 1999, at Windsor Forest High School, seniors were required to get adult permission slips before being allowed to...

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