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docbungle - students are being thought that they ought to submit to authority, to not question the motives of the leaders.
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Well, it's high school. That sounds about right to me.
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By refusing to engage in a dialog, one is submitting to a totalitarian system. This situation is teaching kids that they ought to bow to the pressure of a few, whom calm to speak for the whole.
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I assume you meant "claim" to speak for the whole? Regardless, I think you're selling the students short to assume they are "learning" how to behave based on the politics behind what happened to their high school play. We were not all so simple when we were kids, and I would assume the same for these youngsters. And high school does seem a little totalitarian, but then it always has: it's high school.
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its a curious world where avoiding complainers is the goal. And where
do people who have only heard about something get to have their opinions
registered as legitimate? I suppose that in these sorts of communities
the narrowest-minded get to set the agenda, so everything has to be
pitched down to their comfort level.
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Sounds like every day politics.
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And what are the lessons that the kids are learning? Are they actually
better off if the community pretends that there is no smoking, drinking,
kissing, discontent, and the like?
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If the biggest lesson they get from school is from a play (or lack thereof) then there is indeed a problem.