So the video below isn’t real (at least it wasn’t a real school play), though it wouldn’t surprise me if some school eventually did decide to do some controversial and racy thing like this (a third grade version of Eyes Wide Shut, perhaps). What I find most amusing is that almost everyone at first thought it was real (I’ll admit, so did I). If anything, the two minute clip is a great social commentary on our world. Take YA books, for instance: a reader is apt to find more violence and drug-use and profanity and sex in them than they are a typical adult novel. It sometimes seems YA authors try to push the envelope as much as possible, and then when nobody blinks, they try to push it further. But hey, some will argue, that’s art. Right?
