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School play choice indecent

The Spokesman-Review

We hear a lot these days about global warming and protecting the environment. But what about the moral environment?

It seems Lewis and Clark High School has gone to the sewer for the production of their school musical, “Urinetown.” It is a tale about a town that had a water shortage because of a 20-year drought, and the people were banned from using their private toilets.

It is amazing how some in the entertainment industry and in education can take a private subject such as bodily excretory functions and dress it in such terms as irreverence, uproarious humor and satire, and even try to make the case that the theme has ties to teaching science, history, math and English, and people will actually pay to come and see such refuse.

Whatever happened to privacy and teaching common decency? Voters should take this into consideration at the time of the next school bond levy.

Wayne Lawson

Spokane

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