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Suspension Over the 'V-Word'
CBS News Radio | 3/6/07 | Catherine Cioffi
Suspension Over the 'V-Word'
CROSS RIVER, N.Y. (AP) -- A Westchestr public high school has suspended three girls who disobeyed officials by saying the word ``vagina'' during a reading from the play ``The Vagina Monologues.''
Stay tuned to WCBS 880 on air and online for more on this story from Reporter Catherine Cioffi
Their stand is being applauded by the play's author, Eve Ensler, who said today that the school should be celebrating the three juniors. Ensler asked ``don't we want our children to resist authority when it's not appropriate and wise?''
The students, Megan Reback, Elan Stahl and Hannah Levinson, included the word because, as Reback said ``It wasn't crude and it wasn't inappropriate and it was very real and very pure.''
The excerpt from ``Monologues'' was read Friday night, among various readings at an event sponsored by the literary magazine at John Jay High School in Cross River, part of the Katonah-Lewisboro school district.
Principal Richard Leprine said today that the girls were punished because they disobeyed orders not to say the word ``vagina.'' Leprine said that because the event was open to the community, including children, the word ``vagina'' wasn't appropriate.
CBS News Radio | 3/6/07 | Catherine Cioffi
Suspension Over the 'V-Word'
CROSS RIVER, N.Y. (AP) -- A Westchestr public high school has suspended three girls who disobeyed officials by saying the word ``vagina'' during a reading from the play ``The Vagina Monologues.''
Stay tuned to WCBS 880 on air and online for more on this story from Reporter Catherine Cioffi
Their stand is being applauded by the play's author, Eve Ensler, who said today that the school should be celebrating the three juniors. Ensler asked ``don't we want our children to resist authority when it's not appropriate and wise?''
The students, Megan Reback, Elan Stahl and Hannah Levinson, included the word because, as Reback said ``It wasn't crude and it wasn't inappropriate and it was very real and very pure.''
The excerpt from ``Monologues'' was read Friday night, among various readings at an event sponsored by the literary magazine at John Jay High School in Cross River, part of the Katonah-Lewisboro school district.
Principal Richard Leprine said today that the girls were punished because they disobeyed orders not to say the word ``vagina.'' Leprine said that because the event was open to the community, including children, the word ``vagina'' wasn't appropriate.
