Schools
Trump Supporter's Angry Email Led to School Talent Show Skit Being Canceled
A Wellesley parent and ambassador for the anti-PC crowd demanded a skit she didn't like get pulled from an elementary school talent show.

WELLESLEY, MA - Wellesley Public Schools have released a series of angry emails from a parent offended by two sketches performed at a Fiske Elementary School talent show.
The skits, one of which featured three boys dancing in large Trump masks and another that parodied a dance-off between Donald Trump and Marco Rubio, were pulled from the evening show after the parent complained about the morning performance.
In the emails, made public through a records request by the Wellesley Townsman, the unidentified parent slams the school for allowing satirization of the political candidate she supports.
"Don't give my kids an orange card again this year after allowing the kids to ridicule someone's choice of candidates," she writes in one email to Fiske Principal Rachel McGregor and teacher Lizzy Floyd. "My husband is voting for Trump. You should be so lucky to be married to someone as wonderfully Republican as him."
She then proceeds to google "funny pictures of obama" and "cartoons of muhammad," attaching screenshots of these in subsequent emails.
At one point the woman claims the skits would never have been tolerated if they were about Obama and says she might send her kids to dance while wearing a hijab next year.
During a subsequent exchange between Fiske Principal Rachel McGregor and Wellesley Superintendent David Lussier, Lussier advises McGregor to inform the parent that the skits were inappropriate and would not be performed at the evening talent show.
Many parents objected to the decision, believing it to be wrongful censorship of skits that were harmless fun.
The sketch depicting Trump and Rubio was amended to a late night talk show parody featuring Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel, while the "3 Little Donald Trumps" skit was canceled altogether.
The parent concludes her email by telling McGregor and Floyd she hopes Trump wins and they lose their jobs.
"I hope Trump wins and all the teachers like yourselves get fired because you really shouldn't be teaching because you can't do so without injecting your political beliefs," she writes.
Make America Great Again indeed.
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