The Norco High School walk-out of Mike Daisy’s theatrical performance Tuesday appears not have been a pre-arranged publicity stunt.
According to the Press Enterprise newspaper:
A parent went to Boston to supervise Norco High choir members during their annual trip, but his own actions are now being sharply criticized by YouTube viewers.
The man was caught on videotape as he poured water on the notes of a performer, in an apparent protest against his profanity-laced monologue. By late Tuesday afternoon, the video had gotten more than 80,000 hits on YouTube.
Norco High School Principal John Johnson said the chaperone acted badly by defacing the performer’s property as the group walked out of the show last Thursday.
But the school and students don’t deserve the fallout, he said.
Johnson said he had received about 150 e-mails from around the country and calls from at least six media outlets.
It will be interesting to see what message, if any, the school wants its students to take away from this unfortunate incident.
that it was one of the chaperones who dumped the water. That’s shocking, and that guy should be barred from future school activities, or at least barred from having any kind of responsibility for students. What an awful example he set for the kids he was “supervising.” If they want to walk out, that’s one thing. But for the “adult” to behave so stupidly — how embarrassing for him.
“But for the “adult” to behave so stupidly – how embarrassing for him.”
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this is rich.
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The “comedian” is an adult, his words were shocking, he behaved stupidly and should be embarassed.
Do you really think mere profanity deserves that level of disrespect? Especially when the chaperones, at least, were aware that there would be profanity in the show?
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This is the sort of attitude that is so wrong in our society. Somebody does or says something that is completely harmless, but which you disagree with, and suddenly it becomes acceptable — to the likes of you, at least — to profoundly disrespect that person and their work.
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I would not have thought to find somebody defending the chaperone, but once again I am sadly mistaken.
The principal seems awfully defensive in the newspaper story (what a surprise). Daisey says he didn’t get to talk to the chaperone until he pointed out that the latter had committed a crime in front of dozens of witnesses and on videotape, whereas the “spokesperson” says the chaperone was contrite and called Daisey himself.
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It is something of a relief that with the exception of the chaperone, the problem seems to be less Christofascism than routine school-administrator stupidity. I do wish the principal would take some more responsibility for what was done in his school’s name.
I don’t think this was a case of “Christofascism,” I think this was a case of some chaperones who made the right call on this particular play being inappropriate for a bunch of high school kids and one chaperone who made a bad call by dumping the water everywhere. Norco High School is a public school, as well.
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I’m not defending the water guy because clearly what he did was wrong, but I think it was the right move to take out those kids. There is also a dispute about what the chaperones knew ahead of time. The school is claiming they were told there was no objectionable content and the theater says otherwise. It would have been prudent to make sure that the show was age appropriate before they bought the tickets.
He didn’t believe it was a bunch of wackos protesting.
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What right moves this the “adults” make? The kids shouldn’t have been there in the first place. Are these people so idiotic that they don’t at least make a cursory review of what they are attending? Plus we have this moron chaperone that doesn’t give a crap to research what high school kids see on a school sponsored trip, but decides that to vandalize is fine in front of the kids.
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What level of stupid are these people?