[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Isn't it the association though? same with those 8 year old pole dancers, there was nothing raunchy about the routine per se but it is just not appropriate for kids. We talk about them growing up too quickly and then try and make excuses to include this, he could sing and dance without being in drag maybe?

the other issue is that the Head has to take into account whoever is involved in this show as well as , parents and kids watching, if they were allowing younger siblings to attend, its not all about this one kid and what he wants, the Head has to please a range of ages in the audience.

What's so inappropriate about a boy in a wig dancing around in an outfit that looks like something someone would wear to a job interview for Primark? It's not like he's running around wearing straps and humping the scenery.

By all accounts, the teachers and pupils were happy enough for him to perform. From what I can gather with this story it was the head, who after receiving a list of acts, that had the problem. The teachers didn't raise concerns but this head made a decision based on her own ignorance.

If the performance didn't raise concerns with anyone who supervised the rehearsals then that should say more as to the content of the performance than what is an incomplete view on drag itself. The bull**** excuses about it being illegal (completely false) are just ways for the head to try to justify her hypocrisy. She was uncomfortable with a drag act and so she canned his performance, that's more likely then her truly believing it would be illegal.

The fact she had the gall to say, in the same statement that the school was a welcoming place for all is a joke.