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Related: About this forumMichigan school forbids first grader from performing "body farts" routine...
ST. CLAIR SHORES, Mich. (WJBK) -
A local first grader is banned from his school's talent show because his act is deemed "inappropriate."
Erich Henze is seven years old, and he is a fun-loving first grader at Violet Elementary School in St. Clair Shores.
He was "really excited" about the talent show coming up. He was perfecting his performance, and mom signed the permission slip.
"I said, 'Mom, sign this because I just want to do the arm fart for the talent show,'" said Erich.
"Body Farts by Erich Henze. He can armpit fart. He can leg fart, neck fart, ear fart. It's a pretty good act. Really funny," said Emily Henze, his mom. "I got a call from the principal yesterday morning. She informed me that bodily noises were inappropriate and would not be acceptable in the talent show."
What does mom think this says to her son?
"Not to be yourself," she said. "Everybody takes things so serious. We're talking about a seven-year-old and armpit farts. There could be so many other worse things, and I don't agree with her decision, and I think I have hundreds and hundreds of people that stand behind the way I think."
Read more: http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/story/21636554/metro-detroit-school-says-first-grader-cant-perform-body-fart-act-in-talent-show#ixzz2NYdtq46D
A local first grader is banned from his school's talent show because his act is deemed "inappropriate."
Erich Henze is seven years old, and he is a fun-loving first grader at Violet Elementary School in St. Clair Shores.
He was "really excited" about the talent show coming up. He was perfecting his performance, and mom signed the permission slip.
"I said, 'Mom, sign this because I just want to do the arm fart for the talent show,'" said Erich.
"Body Farts by Erich Henze. He can armpit fart. He can leg fart, neck fart, ear fart. It's a pretty good act. Really funny," said Emily Henze, his mom. "I got a call from the principal yesterday morning. She informed me that bodily noises were inappropriate and would not be acceptable in the talent show."
What does mom think this says to her son?
"Not to be yourself," she said. "Everybody takes things so serious. We're talking about a seven-year-old and armpit farts. There could be so many other worse things, and I don't agree with her decision, and I think I have hundreds and hundreds of people that stand behind the way I think."
Read more: http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/story/21636554/metro-detroit-school-says-first-grader-cant-perform-body-fart-act-in-talent-show#ixzz2NYdtq46D
Somewhere George Carlin is frowning on this....
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Michigan school forbids first grader from performing "body farts" routine... (Original Post)
Initech
Mar 2013
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Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)1. Republicans fart on the Senate floor
MADem
(135,425 posts)2. The kid should do his act on video, and put it up on YOUTUBE. It should be prefaced by
a blurb that identifies the meanies who shut him out of the talent show, and it should have good production values--well lit, nicely edited, good musical bridges, etc.. If the kid plays his cards right, he could make enough dough to pay for college!
At least he would learn something productive. Why can't they just relax and let kids be kids?