In his first public comments since going on leave, Bailey said he never forced anyone to read “Angels in America,” one of 10 plays students can read for an end-of-year assignment on Pulitzer-winning American playwrights.
Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” and Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire” were among the other plays students could read for the American playwrights assignment, Bailey said.“I tell them it’s about the AIDS epidemic,” Bailey said. “I tell them that there is adult language in it. I tell them there are sexual situations in it. I also tell them that it is an epic piece of theater, that it won the Pulitzer Prize.
He added: “I keep that play because I have had numerous students who read it and it has changed their life … I’m not talking about+ students. I’m talking about students who are expanding their worldview or gaining empathy by thinking about other people’s experiences.” “ went to discuss stuff with him and she was getting upset and he was like, ‘Well, if you’re gonna be all sensitive about it, then just forget it,’” Nolasco said.
Bailey said he learned of Nolasco’s concerns May 12, when he received a printed copy of one of her emails.
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