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I think you are kidding yourself if you think refraining from performing a play is going to save the innocence of children regarding sexuality.  What you are looking for is a wholesale reform of our media and entertainment industries.  I do not entirely disagree with that notion, but by the time kids get to highschool, they have already adopted many ideas about sex, drugs and rock 'n roll thanks to magazines, sitcoms, movies, and NEWS reports.  What if, instead, we simply acknowledged the fact that sex is a beautiful fact of life, teenagers take part in it, and encourage responsible behavior?  Lets stop pretending that our kids are somehow different than we were in high school, or that they are completely unable to think and reason on their own.  

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What people afraid of?  Mr. Cahill is absolutely right that controversy is at the heart of the process of inquiry.  Plays, and art in general should be generating an emotional response.  This is what creates engagement and meaning when experiencing the art.  We have to give our students more credit and realize that they are emerging into adulthood.  We cannot shield them from everything controversial until they are 18 years old.  If we do this, we end up with a bunch of ignorant citizens incapable of critical analysis of issues, art, media and more.  Give the students AND Mr. Cahill a chance, let him as an experienced professional guide the students they way he has in the past.  

If people want to protect their child from every indecency, they will have to turn their T.V off, stop walking the streets, stop reading the paper, AND refrain from Public SChool, a microcosm of our communities.  If that is the plan for some of these parents who object, then we are well on the way to creating a generation of students who need constant baby-sitting so as not to damage their fragile, shallow existence.  

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We must invest in clean energy and clean transportation.  Lets see some generous refunds both for those who develop and those who purchase electric vehicles.  Lets get those vehicles on the road now!

Angela

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I'd like to see this money go towards making college education affordable with cheaper loans and more grants.  If college were more accessible to more people, and people actually went to school it would a) take some of the demand off the immediate job market and b) create a more educated community that will draw high end employers to the region.

We need to increase the capacity of the Oregon University System to accomodate more students.  I am a graduate student at PSU and they are splitting at the seams with every classroom being used almost all the time.

Eric 

Tualatin

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