Students learn anti-violence from theatre group

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West Woodland Elementary students are getting a lesson in bullying today.

Taproot Theatre’s Road Company is performing their new educational play, Super School. For 25 years the traveling group has performed social-issues plays to schools throughout the Pacific Northwest and this year’s play “teaches kids about preventing violence and managing their emotions by presenting them with a story about superhero kids who aren’t allowed to use their superpowers on the playground.” The group has performed to more than one million students since 1985. This is a photo by Liz Ragland of Solomon Davis, David Roby and Charissa Huff. Photo by Liz Ragland.

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9 thoughts to “Students learn anti-violence from theatre group”

  1. “teaches kids about preventing violence and managing their emotions” Look this is well intentioned but frankly just misguided.

    Look, when the zombies start crawling out of their graves and start eating the brains of all your friends and relatives, turning them into zombies, who try to eat your brain and turn you into a zombie, the only way to manage your emotions is grab a baseball bat, go into a frenzied panic, and swing for the fences.

    And here is a rhetorical question for all you doubters, and haters of the hate: when you are one of five survivors backed in the corner of the Ballard library fighting off 100 zombies (representatives of the end of old and new Ballard), who do you want to cover your back? some sad sac kid whose going to get all mushy and drop his baseball bat on the ground while he tries to rationalize emotions and articulate feelings with the undead, or some soda-pop ingesting high-fructose ADHD sh*t who can’t spell or add, but likes antagonizing and killing things? Hint hint, the smart money bets on the kid who burned ants with a magnifying glass after he stole your lunch money.

    Get your priorities straight people. I know who has got my back, you should know who has got yours. Today this question may be rhetorical, but tomorrow…..

  2. Wow Edog……

    slow day at the office?

    It would be nice, however, if “some soda-pop ingesting high-fructose ADHD sh*t who can’t spell or add, but likes antagonizing and killing things” had something to do other than tag the crap out of our neighborhood.

  4. Are you mad, Edog? When the slumbering hordes burst forth from their aeons of slumber beneath the waves and stream forth, gibbering, from the non-Euclidean arches and Cyclopean towers of dark R'lyeh to feast upon the minds and bodies of men, what use aggression?

    Mankind's only hope will be to suppress those baser instincts toward a feeble attempt at self-defense and cower, supine, before our blasphemous overlords from beyond the eldritch reaches of time and space. Taproot Theatre's Road Company is the only thing standing between us and the yawning abyss of madness!

  5. Ughhhhhh, just when you think the conditions are right for a ragnarok end of days style brawl between good and evil, we get just enough divergent opinion that we have to have a Seattle style period of public coment, a ballot measure, and a lawsuit to figure our the most humane way to deal with our undead zombie problem.

    Well, if we can not kill our zombies, maybe we can at least send them back to Bellevue.

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