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Talent, Humor and the Education System:
San Francisco's legendary theater company and Tony Award-winning SF Mime Troupe presents their new play, Schooled, at the beautiful Arena Theater Wednesday, July 13 at 7:30 p.m.
Presented in the troupe's characteristic Commedia dell'Arte style, "Schooled" takes on the education system: Are schools the last chance for democracy, or is education the next frontier for profit?
Education. It's like the weather: everyone has an opinion but nobody does anything about it. That's how Lavinia Jones feels about her son Thomas' new school, Eleanor Roosevelt High. Old textbooks, crumbling classrooms, Roosevelt is exactly the sort of public school that has failed her family time and time again. Isn't it time for something new?
And new is what Ms. Babbit, from Learning Academy for Virtual Achievement, or LAVA Corp., wants to bring to the district. But with privatization on the line, a Wall Street heavy hitter on one side and feisty octogenarian teacher Ethel Orocuru on the other, suddenly the next School Board election is more about a hidden agenda than the open curriculum. Are schools the last chance for democracy, or is education the next frontier for profit? Can we trust a politician's public/private plan to replace an out-of-date system? Or is there something even more sinister than privatization going on behind the doors of LAVA? And wait - when did the hall monitors start wearing brown shirts and arm bands? When it comes to the real plan for education - or the lack of it - are we all about to get...schooled?
$20, $2 off for members, $10 youth (18 and under), 30 sponsor tickets with reserved seat Four-Eyed Frog Books, The Sea Trader in Gualala; Arena Market in Point Arena; Twist in Mendocino or online at www.arenatheater.org
