Similar to last year, from the research I have done so far, it looks like we have two slates that are each ideologically aligned: David Lopez and Becky Downs are liberals and Courtney Anderson and Shannon Mahan are conservatives.

Conservatives:

Shannon Mahan: https://www.shannon4sbisd.com/home

Courtney Anderson: no website

Liberals:

Becky Down: https://beckydowns.com/

David Lopez: https://www.davidforsbisd.com/

If you want to laugh at some looney toons who should never be allowed anywhere near elected office, watch this zoom call that is embedded in David Lopez' website: https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=external&v=922476082303795

Early voting is happening now through May 2nd. Election day is May 6th. If you value your SBISD not being run (partially) by complete morons, please plan to vote correctly.

7 min in and dude says he was sad he had to take down pride flags and posters of Cesar Chavez.

Right after one of the hefty mods says they are totally ignoring the issue of recapture in Texas. Perhaps she has been living under a rock these last several weeks considering that's all we've heard about.

About halfway in and we've hit on all of your typical liberal talking points:

-LGBTQIA+
-White people are racist
-Equity vs. Equality

Hopefully we get to some actual education-related talking points.

Any info/recommendations on conservatives running in Katy ISD?

Forgot to mention that the video was on zoom and it shows the participants names with the moderators including their pronouns (she/her).

About halfway through the video all of a sudden his pronouns show up (he/him). So great.

The only actual education related question that was asked was related to a 4-day school week. And both candidates said they have no opinion because they don't know enough about the effects of the change.

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All candidates but one have voted for republicans in all elections. There is a group of three that have paid a consulting firm that runs a pac that has been sending mailers slandering the other candidates. 2 of those group of three send their kids to charter or private schools yet want a seat on the board. Things getting spicy on the prairie.

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About halfway in and we've hit on all of your typical liberal talking points:

-LGBTQIA+
-White people are racist
-Equity vs. Equality

Hopefully we get to some actual education-related talking points.

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Those ARE the educational talking points for progressives. They only care about indoctrination, not education.

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About halfway in and we've hit on all of your typical liberal talking points:

-LGBTQIA+
-White people are racist
-Equity vs. Equality

Hopefully we get to some actual education-related talking points.

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Those ARE the educational talking points for progressives. They only care about indoctrination, not education.

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Sure, its the progressives that are looking to indoctrinate. I think you're projecting again

https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2023/04/26/kprc-2-investigates-proposed-bill-calls-for-ten-commandments-to-be-displayed-in-all-classrooms-is-that-constitutional/

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Right after one of the hefty mods says they are totally ignoring the issue of recapture in Texas. Perhaps she has been living under a rock these last several weeks considering that's all we've heard about.

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I'm unfamiliar with the "issue of recapture" regarding education. What am I missing?

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About halfway in and we've hit on all of your typical liberal talking points:

-LGBTQIA+
-White people are racist
-Equity vs. Equality

Hopefully we get to some actual education-related talking points.

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Those ARE the educational talking points for progressives. They only care about indoctrination, not education.

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Sure, its the progressives that are looking to indoctrinate. I think you're projecting again

https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2023/04/26/kprc-2-investigates-proposed-bill-calls-for-ten-commandments-to-be-displayed-in-all-classrooms-is-that-constitutional/

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I agree that's pretty ridiculous. If the Ten Commandments were displayed in a World History class or Philosophy or even English literature (the Bible is actually pretty interesting reading even if you're a non-believer) but this is pretty goofy.

Then there are, shall we say "special," people like this:

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"I am very excited about this because I think the Ten Commandments, we're talking about the Ten Commandments, right? I think the Ten Commandments are a foundation of our civilization. I mean, some people don't know it's not right to steal or it's not right to lie or it's not right to commit adultery," Harper said.

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Really lady?

Thank you for this info - we've received the flyers you're talking about- can you give any recommendations? Flyer I have us from Cuzela, Thieme and Calhoun. We've only been in Katy a few years and our kids are all adults - so our interest is purely for maintaining conservative values in the schools

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Thank you for this info - we've received the flyers you're talking about- can you give any recommendations? Flyer I have us from Cuzela, Thieme and Calhoun. We've only been in Katy a few years and our kids are all adults - so our interest is purely for maintaining conservative values in the schools

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Cuzela, Thieme and Calhoun are what people would see as THE MOST CONSERVATIVE of all running. However they are backed by a PAC with ties to school vouchers becoming a thing so if blowing up the state public school system is your thing, then there you go. One of them who has kids in a charter school lied in an interview by saying her kids go to a katy isd funded school and hasnt corrected herself or walked that back. If you cant be honest to people about a simple question like that, then I don't trust you with your intent to be on the board.

It no shocker to others, but as you might be new here I'll put up the disclaimer that I'm on the left side of the national political aisle. I grew up in Katy and went to Katy ISD schools for all of my education as well as my kids are in Katy ISD schools. I have skin in the game and I want this great school district to continue being great. However like I previously said there is only one actual democrat voting person running (Cicely Taylor) and I'm not even going to vote for her as she hasnt made a compelling argument to me for what she hopes to accomplish while on the board.

I'm leaning Bradford, Brettell, and Peterson. All three are conservative, honest, and up front about why they are running and who us backing them.

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Right after one of the hefty mods says they are totally ignoring the issue of recapture in Texas. Perhaps she has been living under a rock these last several weeks considering that's all we've heard about.

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I'm unfamiliar with the "issue of recapture" regarding education. What am I missing?

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The state has a formula that determines how much money each school is allowed to collect from property taxes within their boundary. Any excess money is sent to the state where they reallocate it to other school districts that do not have as much wealthy property in their boundaries. Almost all of the Houston-area school districts have tax money recaptured and sent to other school districts.

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About halfway in and we've hit on all of your typical liberal talking points:

-LGBTQIA+
-White people are racist
-Equity vs. Equality

Hopefully we get to some actual education-related talking points.

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Those ARE the educational talking points for progressives. They only care about indoctrination, not education.

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Sure, its the progressives that are looking to indoctrinate. I think you're projecting again

https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2023/04/26/kprc-2-investigates-proposed-bill-calls-for-ten-commandments-to-be-displayed-in-all-classrooms-is-that-constitutional/

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Your whataboutism fails, one thing is not like the other. Some folks on the Right want to return the Ten Commandments to the classroom, but they aren't going to infuse it into math testing, history classes, writing assignments, pronouns, etc. And they aren't going to grade your kid's performance as a student based on your adherence to that doctrine.

The Left on the other hand wants all topics and the learning environment itself filtered through the outlook of critical theories- race, wealth inequality, environmentalism, gender fluidity. They are the ones pushing a religion and intolerance for dissent in classrooms, trying to make little disciples out of our kids. And often times trying to do so without informed consent from the parents.

TL,DR- it's easy, but lazy and inaccurate to to equate the Left and Right when it comes to education.

In other SBISD news, parents kept kids from going to watch a production of James and the Giant Peach because some of the male characters would be played by female actors or vice versa. So stupid!

https://abc13.com/spring-branch-isd-school-field-trip-canceled-to-main-street-theater-james-and-the-giant-peach-performance/13189547/?mibextid=Zxz2cZ&fbclid=IwAR3nMj2q1eeNUIId-9_K9Z15sHpIp6eclbN92iF74o__gq6jJjxSdFd1uXw#lgz9jfd5bn3ndbod2h

Thank you I appreciate the honest, straightforward response and information.

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In other SBISD news, parents kept kids from going to watch a production of James and the Giant Peach because some of the male characters would be played by female actors or vice versa. So stupid!

https://abc13.com/spring-branch-isd-school-field-trip-canceled-to-main-street-theater-james-and-the-giant-peach-performance/13189547/?mibextid=Zxz2cZ&fbclid=IwAR3nMj2q1eeNUIId-9_K9Z15sHpIp6eclbN92iF74o__gq6jJjxSdFd1uXw#lgz9jfd5bn3ndbod2h

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I played Jiminy Cricket in my 4th grade production of "Pinocchio" does that make me an insect?

The idea that males playing female roles and vice versa is "drag" is absurd. There was a time where women weren't allowed to perform on stage and in Shakespeare's original productions many female roles were performed by men. It's sort of like all the people in movies set in ancient Greece or Rome speak with an English accent- goes back to Shakespeare.

Anyway, there's a vast difference between a dude playing Ophelia in "Hamlet" and some drag queen vamping all over the place.

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The Left on the other hand wants all topics and the learning environment itself filtered through the outlook of critical theories- race, wealth inequality, environmentalism, gender fluidity. They are the ones pushing a religion and intolerance for dissent in classrooms, trying to make little disciples out of our kids. And often times trying to do so without informed consent from the parents.

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Can you provide examples of this within your own child's school work? Maybe your neighbors?

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The Left on the other hand wants all topics and the learning environment itself filtered through the outlook of critical theories- race, wealth inequality, environmentalism, gender fluidity. They are the ones pushing a religion and intolerance for dissent in classrooms, trying to make little disciples out of our kids. And often times trying to do so without informed consent from the parents.

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Can you provide examples of this within your own child's school work? Maybe your neighbors?

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No, because my kids are currently in a private school that doesn't push that crap and most of the neighborhood kids are the same since we are HISD, and Texas means tests for pre-K. Unless you consider means testing for pre-K access to be a form of social justice in action, in which case I suppose it helps to prove my point.

That doesn't change the fact that the Left is infusing critical theory into every aspect of education where they can, and the news is rife with examples. But you know that.

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The Left on the other hand wants all topics and the learning environment itself filtered through the outlook of critical theories- race, wealth inequality, environmentalism, gender fluidity. They are the ones pushing a religion and intolerance for dissent in classrooms, trying to make little disciples out of our kids. And often times trying to do so without informed consent from the parents.

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Can you provide examples of this within your own child's school work? Maybe your neighbors?

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No, because my kids are currently in a private school that doesn't push that crap and most of the neighborhood kids are the same since we are HISD, and Texas means tests for pre-K. Unless you consider means testing for pre-K access to be a form of social justice in action, in which case I suppose it helps to prove my point.

That doesn't change the fact that the Left is infusing critical theory into every aspect of education where they can, and the news is rife with examples. But you know that.

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So the answer is no. I have yet to see a single example of this happening in a Texas public school. All the public schools have to teach curriculum approved by the Texas State Board of Education. Believe it or not, I don't want CRT or gender studies in elementary school assignments either. Its disgenerous for a school district board candidate to run on the notion that they are going to keep out the "woke" things in the curriculum as they ultimately dont have say over it. They approve budgets and policies and ultimately pick the superintendent and other district admin roles. This culture war crap has no place in the school district elections.

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The Left on the other hand wants all topics and the learning environment itself filtered through the outlook of critical theories- race, wealth inequality, environmentalism, gender fluidity. They are the ones pushing a religion and intolerance for dissent in classrooms, trying to make little disciples out of our kids. And often times trying to do so without informed consent from the parents.

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Can you provide examples of this within your own child's school work? Maybe your neighbors?

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No, because my kids are currently in a private school that doesn't push that crap and most of the neighborhood kids are the same since we are HISD, and Texas means tests for pre-K. Unless you consider means testing for pre-K access to be a form of social justice in action, in which case I suppose it helps to prove my point.

That doesn't change the fact that the Left is infusing critical theory into every aspect of education where they can, and the news is rife with examples. But you know that.

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So the answer is no. I have yet to see a single example of this happening in a Texas public school. All the public schools have to teach curriculum approved by the Texas State Board of Education. Believe it or not, I don't want CRT or gender studies in elementary school assignments either. Its disgenerous for a school district board candidate to run on the notion that they are going to keep out the "woke" things in the curriculum as they ultimately dont have say over it. They approve budgets and policies and ultimately pick the superintendent and other district admin roles. This culture war crap has no place in the school district elections.

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He wants to characterize the lack of evidence to CRT being taught in Texas schools to the fact that his kids are in private school instead of the truth which is that CRT has never been a part of K-12 curriculum in Texas.

Last year at this same time, I was talking with David Slattery who was a school board candidate then. He was explaining the Robin Hood aspect of tax redistribution especially how it pertains to sbisd. I don't remember the exact amount he said, but it was well over 50% of the tax collected in sbisd was sent to the state to be used in other districts. I was flabbergasted.

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In other SBISD news, parents kept kids from going to watch a production of James and the Giant Peach because some of the male characters would be played by female actors or vice versa. So stupid!

https://abc13.com/spring-branch-isd-school-field-trip-canceled-to-main-street-theater-james-and-the-giant-peach-performance/13189547/?mibextid=Zxz2cZ&fbclid=IwAR3nMj2q1eeNUIId-9_K9Z15sHpIp6eclbN92iF74o__gq6jJjxSdFd1uXw#lgz9jfd5bn3ndbod2h

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seems to be our society in a nutshell.

Fringe idiots on the right and left raising a fuss about stupid **** and getting on the news.

Just pull the lever for these three and sleep well at night.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CnnIWeeJFcg/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

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The Left on the other hand wants all topics and the learning environment itself filtered through the outlook of critical theories- race, wealth inequality, environmentalism, gender fluidity. They are the ones pushing a religion and intolerance for dissent in classrooms, trying to make little disciples out of our kids. And often times trying to do so without informed consent from the parents.

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Can you provide examples of this within your own child's school work? Maybe your neighbors?

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No, because my kids are currently in a private school that doesn't push that crap and most of the neighborhood kids are the same since we are HISD, and Texas means tests for pre-K. Unless you consider means testing for pre-K access to be a form of social justice in action, in which case I suppose it helps to prove my point.

That doesn't change the fact that the Left is infusing critical theory into every aspect of education where they can, and the news is rife with examples. But you know that.

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So the answer is no. I have yet to see a single example of this happening in a Texas public school. All the public schools have to teach curriculum approved by the Texas State Board of Education. Believe it or not, I don't want CRT or gender studies in elementary school assignments either. Its disgenerous for a school district board candidate to run on the notion that they are going to keep out the "woke" things in the curriculum as they ultimately dont have say over it. They approve budgets and policies and ultimately pick the superintendent and other district admin roles. This culture war crap has no place in the school district elections.

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Did you even watch the zoom call linked in the OP? 90% of what those morons talked about were "woke" things. Hell!.....this crazy person ran the zoom call: https://dianafortexas.com/diana-alexander

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The Left on the other hand wants all topics and the learning environment itself filtered through the outlook of critical theories- race, wealth inequality, environmentalism, gender fluidity. They are the ones pushing a religion and intolerance for dissent in classrooms, trying to make little disciples out of our kids. And often times trying to do so without informed consent from the parents.

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Can you provide examples of this within your own child's school work? Maybe your neighbors?

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No, because my kids are currently in a private school that doesn't push that crap and most of the neighborhood kids are the same since we are HISD, and Texas means tests for pre-K. Unless you consider means testing for pre-K access to be a form of social justice in action, in which case I suppose it helps to prove my point.

That doesn't change the fact that the Left is infusing critical theory into every aspect of education where they can, and the news is rife with examples. But you know that.

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So the answer is no. I have yet to see a single example of this happening in a Texas public school. All the public schools have to teach curriculum approved by the Texas State Board of Education. Believe it or not, I don't want CRT or gender studies in elementary school assignments either. Its disgenerous for a school district board candidate to run on the notion that they are going to keep out the "woke" things in the curriculum as they ultimately dont have say over it. They approve budgets and policies and ultimately pick the superintendent and other district admin roles. This culture war crap has no place in the school district elections.

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He wants to characterize the lack of evidence to CRT being taught in Texas schools to the fact that his kids are in private school instead of the truth which is that CRT has never been a part of K-12 curriculum in Texas.

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We get it dude...you're going to vote for the fugly middle-age wine mom and the Hispanic community activist that cried when he was told to take down the gay pride and trans flags. Water is wet.

Don't live in the district so I won't be voting for any of these people.

Just pointing out the lies about CRT existing in Texas public schools.

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Don't live in the district so I won't be voting for any of these people.

Just pointing out the lies about CRT existing in Texas public schools.

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Awesome..one less person I have to recruit to offset your non-existent vote.

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He wants to characterize the lack of evidence to CRT being taught in Texas schools to the fact that his kids are in private school instead of the truth which is that CRT has never been a part of K-12 curriculum in Texas.

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So you're saying the Left doesn't want to change that? Which was my original point - that one side has a goal to indoctrinate, not the strawman being built. Nowhere did I claim that CRT is rampant today in the elementary school we are zoned to. My point is if you elect Leftists to school boards, you will eventually see their goals come to fruition.

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He wants to characterize the lack of evidence to CRT being taught in Texas schools to the fact that his kids are in private school instead of the truth which is that CRT has never been a part of K-12 curriculum in Texas.

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So you're saying the Left doesn't want to change that? Which was my original point - that one side has a goal to indoctrinate, not the strawman being built. Nowhere did I claim that CRT is rampant today in the elementary school we are zoned to. My point is if you elect Leftists to school boards, you will eventually see their goals come to fruition.

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Come on man....first it was "CRT is only in colleges".....then it was "CRT isn't happening in schools".....now the goalposts have moved to "CRT is a good thing."

Just stop it, racist white guy! Repent for your sins!

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Thank you for this info - we've received the flyers you're talking about- can you give any recommendations? Flyer I have us from Cuzela, Thieme and Calhoun. We've only been in Katy a few years and our kids are all adults - so our interest is purely for maintaining conservative values in the schools

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Cuzela, Thieme and Calhoun are what people would see as THE MOST CONSERVATIVE of all running. However they are backed by a PAC with ties to school vouchers becoming a thing so if blowing up the state public school system is your thing, then there you go. One of them who has kids in a charter school lied in an interview by saying her kids go to a katy isd funded school and hasnt corrected herself or walked that back. If you cant be honest to people about a simple question like that, then I don't trust you with your intent to be on the board.

It no shocker to others, but as you might be new here I'll put up the disclaimer that I'm on the left side of the national political aisle. I grew up in Katy and went to Katy ISD schools for all of my education as well as my kids are in Katy ISD schools. I have skin in the game and I want this great school district to continue being great. However like I previously said there is only one actual democrat voting person running (Cicely Taylor) and I'm not even going to vote for her as she hasnt made a compelling argument to me for what she hopes to accomplish while on the board.

I'm leaning Bradford, Brettell, and Peterson. All three are conservative, honest, and up front about why they are running and who us backing them.

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I voted for TCC (as Michael Berry referred to those three conservative candidates).

I got a flyer in the mail about the KISD election with photos of most of the candidates. That Cicely gal looked like a fish gal. I wouldn't vote for her just on that alone (sarcasm).

Katy ISD is a strong district. Want to keep it that way? Then vote against anyone with even a smidgeon of support of commie crap like DEI, white supremacism, and all other current Democrat talking points.

At least get your facts straight.. there were 2 versions of the play and they gave the little kids the adult version. That is why they canceled.

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At least get your facts straight.. there were 2 versions of the play and they gave the little kids the adult version. That is why they canceled.

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Tried buying tickets to the 'adult version' of James and the Giant Peach. Not surprisingly it didn't exist, as there is no such thing. Please provide a link where I can buy adult tickets!
From the Main Street Theater site..."For over 43 years, Main Street Theater has had a reputation for bringing thoughtful, entertaining, and fun adaptations of children's books to life. Recently a social media post was made about our usage of cross-gender casting. This is a technique we have used for years (which has produced great humor!) to allow us to produce works with smaller casts. In addition, there was a question of the use of pronouns for the insects. True to Dahl's book, the Glowworm explains that it is not a male but rather a female because male Glowworms do not light up."
https://mainstreettheater.com/james-and-the-giant-peach/

Other coverage...
https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/arts-culture-news/2023/04/27/450282/houston-area-schools-scrap-field-trips-to-see-james-and-the-giant-peach-over-concerns-about-cross-gender-casting-at-main-street-theater/
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/trending/article/spring-branch-isd-cancels-theater-trip-due-age-17922227.php

No mention of different versions of the play as noted in your 'straight facts'.

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At least get your facts straight.. there were 2 versions of the play and they gave the little kids the adult version. That is why they canceled.

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Can you share information that substantiates your claim that there were 2 versions?