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DEAD WHITE MALES by William Missouri Downs Directed by Gordon Reinhart October 3-5, 9-12, 7:30 October 6 & 13, 2:00 pm A contemporary dark comedy about our schools and the politics of teaching. First-year elementary school teacher Janet Greenberg struggles with an administration that wants to ban sex education, Holden Caulfield and evolution from the classroom. Janet learns how to write a "proper" self-evaluation, how to censor musicals so that they are fit for "young minds," and how to deal with countless new mandates, endless curriculum changes, and petty political games in a world dominated by constant accountability. |
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A consistent and very troubling finding in
educational research is that beginning teachers experience severe loss of
idealism during their first year of teaching… Studies of teacher burnout
reveal that the most serious disillusionment occurs in the first five years
of teaching…"characterized by a sense that one’s work is meaningless and
that one is powerless to effect changes which could make the work more
meaningful. This sense of meaninglessness and powerlessness is heightened by
a belief that the norms associated with the role and the setting are absent,
conflicting, or inoperative, and that one is alone and isolated among one’s
clients and colleagues." Allen, Willmington and Sprague NOTE: Strong language and adult content |
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