CHS PARENTS STILL MIFFED ON COMEDY SKETCH DISPUTE

PATCH is on the latest from Monday Night's School Board meeting:

Columbia High School parents say they still don’t understand why a high school comedy troupe’s last performance was cancelled.

Parents, who attended this week’s school board meeting, complained that the school district didn’t communicate with parents and students who were part of the Friday Night Live comedy troupe. The controversy happened in June, when the acting group did two shows at the high school’s Black Box theater, but the third show was cancelled abruptly by the school administration.

At the time, the district issued a statement that said one of the skits in the show was offensive and inappropriate, but declined to discuss the specifics, saying it would “compound the invasion of privacy of the several faculty members involved. The students moved the final performance of the show to the Maplewood Tennis Club.

Parent Talia Rothenberg complained at Monday’s meeting about a "lack of communication" during and after the show’s controversy.  Despite repeated requests, she said, "The group didn't have a chance" to speak to Superintendent Brian Osborne or Principal Lovie Lilly. "We needed someone who could answer back about the problem."

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