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RPG Evolution - True Tales from Stranger Things: The Satanic Panic Comes to School
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<blockquote data-quote="Fritterfae" data-source="post: 8743533" data-attributes="member: 7030156"><p>In my experience it was parents. I grew up in a small town that was very religious. I was in third grade in 1984 and our class was doing a little play to get us kids interested in art and performance. It was a musical of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice." Local religious figures, led by the parent of one my classmates protested the school for putting on this show. The school didn't back down and we had statewide news media flocking to our town of like 20,000 people to see what was going on. These parents said that the school was indoctrinating the kids into witchcraft, satanism, and homosexuality. The backlash against the school district was so severe that they cut all of the dramatic arts programs until my third grade class graduated high school. When I was in marching band we found flyers for 70s and 80s productions of Oklahoma and things in the band room. When we asked our music teacher why we didn't do musicals anymore he explained it all to us and he was livid about it. That it was accidentally tied to our class getting every theatrical and musical production cancelled for a decade. That used to be the main way the high school band program made their money, and why our uniforms hadn't changed since the late 70's. </p><p>I know it's not D&D related, but that's part of the reason why I didn't wind up playing until I was in college.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fritterfae, post: 8743533, member: 7030156"] In my experience it was parents. I grew up in a small town that was very religious. I was in third grade in 1984 and our class was doing a little play to get us kids interested in art and performance. It was a musical of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice." Local religious figures, led by the parent of one my classmates protested the school for putting on this show. The school didn't back down and we had statewide news media flocking to our town of like 20,000 people to see what was going on. These parents said that the school was indoctrinating the kids into witchcraft, satanism, and homosexuality. The backlash against the school district was so severe that they cut all of the dramatic arts programs until my third grade class graduated high school. When I was in marching band we found flyers for 70s and 80s productions of Oklahoma and things in the band room. When we asked our music teacher why we didn't do musicals anymore he explained it all to us and he was livid about it. That it was accidentally tied to our class getting every theatrical and musical production cancelled for a decade. That used to be the main way the high school band program made their money, and why our uniforms hadn't changed since the late 70's. I know it's not D&D related, but that's part of the reason why I didn't wind up playing until I was in college. [/QUOTE]
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