High school and middle school productions of plays often face ExecutiveMeddling from the school administration. At this troper's school, students had to remove the pot-smoking from ''The Breakfast Club'' because the headmaster didn't want to send the message that pot brings people together.

This troper was in a high school production of ''The Wiz'' -- essentially "the black ''TheWizardOfOz''" -- where the school stripped out all the jive-speak. Many people wondered why, if they didn't want any trace of black culture in the performance, they didn't just put on ''TheWizardOfOz''.

Um, because it's perfectly possible to be black and not speak like a Jive Turkey? Also, what is black culture? You can't tell me that a black person living in New York has the same culture as one living in Nairobi?

Yes, but within the United States, given our history of both legal and social segregation there are aspects of culture that are unique to the black experience which expresses itself as the above mentioned subculture.

In college, this troper had a classmate whose high school production of ''AFunnyThingHappenedOnTheWayToTheForum'' was axed entirely after a parent complained it was sexist, and replaced with that old drama school standby ''TheMusicMan.''

Music Theatre International, which licenses a lot of musicals for community and school theatre, now beats the school administrators and parents to the punch. "School Editions" of shows like ''{{Rent}}'' and ''SweeneyTodd'' have been created with the input of the original writers/their estates. The school version of ''Sweeney Todd'' is PG-rated according to their website. There's also a "Junior" version of ''Into the Woods'' which drops the '''entire second act''', gutting the show of its point, apparently just so kids can perform it without anybody complaining -- even though the full-length version they continue to license has been used for '''years''' by junior and high schools. They're also working on a PG version of ''TheProducers''.

The decision to perform the edited version was one for which this troper made her high school pay dearly for. She was the Snarker}} snarkiest, Narrator}} lemoniest Narrator imaginable.

A high school version for ''Les Misérables'' is also available.

ThisTroper's brother performed in a (summer drama program) high school-aged ''Les Misérables''. As near as he could tell, it was fairly accurate and as vulgar as it should have been at times.

The school version of ''Les Misérables'' is edited for length and songs, not for content. This troper went in to a conservative Catholic school's production rather warily and was greatly amused by the zeal some of the performers took in lounging around in flimsy tart-wear and corsets singing gaily about the life of a seaside prostitute. Completely uncensored. ("Dog Eats Dog" is cut, though, which leaves Thenardier a much more comic character than he otherwise might be. Rather than the kind of man who robs corpses singing about how God is dead.)

This editor once took part in a high school production of ''MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' in which the director was forced to remove all references to spanking and oral sex. They were promptly replaced with references to Conan O'Brien and Jay Leno. Additionally, the final version featured Lancelot accusing Galahad of "having an excellent fashion sense and making delicious brownies". Interestingly, the lead actor added the exclamation "ballsack" to the end of one of his lines, which he delivered before a packed audience, and no one seemed to care.

I just laughed for about 2 minutes straight.

This editor's high school teacher had tried to put on ''The Laramie Project'', a play + video showing the aftermath of the infamous murder of Matthew Sheppard, and was promptly axed by the new Principal, claiming it wasn't properly put through the channels so it can be on the calendar. But several students in the Drama class were suspicious when soon after that, all the ''Questionable'' play and monologue books were removed, and they gave the 11th grade English teacher the Drama job, and gave the Drama teacher the English job.

Did we go to the same school? That is exactly what happened when my class tried to do the play.

At this troper's primary school, TV Tropes was blocked on the internet (yes, I was a Troper then), but {{Cracked}} was fine. At my high school, it's the other way around.

When I was in high school drama, i was put in a group of three and given the assignment of making a short play based around a picture. My group was given a picture showing three World War II-era soldiers toting rifles and eating what looked like beef jerky. We decided to make a parody where the soldiers were instead incompetent traffic cops, who in the end accidentally shoot each other (non-fatally) during a botched rescue attempt. Our drama teacher, concerned about school shootings and their influences, abhorred the idea that we would use guns in our play, and convinced us to bowlderize it into spilling scalding hot coffee onto each other. Particularly stupid when she gave us the picture, with the guns in it, and told us to make a play about it.

Solution: LampshadeHanging

This troper's high school also tried to put on "The Laramie Project". First it was canceled. Then it was brought back -- but with several non-standard, but okay, features: students had to have parental permission to audition, and time was also scheduled to discuss the play. But, instead of the two weekends the school plays usually run for, the play was only allowed one: Memorial Day Weekend. Nobody turned up. The administration cited low turnout as a reason not to have the normal second week, so the production was still meddled to death. The drama department head quit in disgust and is now suing the school district for creating a hostile work environment.

This troper's former drama teacher attempted to edit a monologue in another language because it contained a word which resembled Fuck, except it wasn't. It was another word in a different foreign language. (Māori for the record). Overprotective much.

This troper's high school performance of "God" by Woody Allen was heavily censored for sexual content, due to the school being an Orthodox Jewish school. Fortunately, they simply let the drama teacher do the alterations. Most amusingly, the gag where Diabetes tries to kiss Doris, who says no because it's her line, was turned into a running gag and replaced every time they actually kissed. Also, all place names were changed to accommodate the play being performed in Seattle, not New York.

Wait... How were they advertising the play? As "G* d"?

If you are referring the very high reverence that the Jewish pay to the name of God, it's not actually the word God that they avoid, but the word Yahweh, the name God revealed for Himself to Moses.

In fact, it's acceptable to write "Yahweh", as that is a transliteration into English.

in English, its Jehovah. No need to complicate things.

The practice of leaving out the "o" in "God" is not a law, just a custom that some follow and others don't.

Averted at this troper's high school, where the administration took pride in being progressive enough to allow a lovely production of both ''The Laramie Project'' and ''Cabaret''. While the fliers for the plays did warn about the content, they weren't bowdlerized.

This troper's high school was scheduled to put on a production of The Children's Hour, a play about gossip, accused homosexuality, and suicide, which was shut down about six weeks in rehearsal by the head nun. The majority of the drama department held a silent protest in the hallway outside her office for one day and succeeded in getting the play back, with the condition of disclaimers and after-show discussions. Despite it, a great deal of bitterness remained in many of the students involved.

This troper heard of a local high school who - because of concerns about Satanic content - reworked the classic musical ''Damn Yankees'' into ''Them Yankees'' and reworked the character Mr. Applegate/The Devil into an unnamed "disreputable business man".

This Troper attended the performance of his friends' middle school production of Damn Yankees. I was rather surprised when the raunchy stayed in. This included my own friend singing about the naked dame on the train (with nothing in between them cept thin air...) and a... um somewhat... awkward performance where the poor thirteen year old girl Lola did a sufficiently seductive job for me to keep reminding myself I don't swing that way.

This troper attended a junior college which was notorious for requiring all of the Theater Department's productions to be approved by the college president. According to campus legend, this state of affairs came about after a former college president's VERY religious wife was offended by a production involving an original play featuring homosexual men and AIDS. This lead to some insanely edited productions, including...

a production of Stephen Sondheim's ''Company'' which removed all references to homosexuality, pot-smoking (though joints were disallowed, the actors were still allowed to perform a scene where the characters get stoned and talk about how stoned they were after the dialogue and props were changed to indicate that they were smoking tobacco in a water pipe) and a song explaining the difference between having sex and making love.

a production of Jules Tasca’s ''The God’s Honest, An Evening of Lies: Eight Miniatures to be Played Together or As Individual Pieces'', in which one of the miniature plays - ''The Rape of Emma Bunche'' not only had to have its name changed in the program and advertising to simply ''Emma'' but also had to remove all instances of the word "rape" from the script - which was problematic as the play centers upon the conversation between a man confronting the woman who may have wrongly accused him of rape after a one-night stand.

This troper's high school was planning to put on a student-written piece titled, "Sex in High School" about...well, you know. A few weeks into rehearsal the administration shut it down for language and sexual content. Even though past performances have included ''Bat Boy: The Musical,'' an uncensored OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest, and a male equivalent of the Vagina Monologues.

This troper's high school had a theater director who wanted to do ''Urinetown'' for the spring musical. If you're familiar with the play, you know that it's actually fairly clean. However, certain meddling administrators read the name and decided that they didn't like it. The director then proposed a different play, which the administrators quickly accepted. After all, what could be so bad about a play called ''Cabaret''?

Was that a deliberate revenge shot? If so, I love your director.

The idea of a high school production of ''Cabaret'' thrills me immensely. And I second the deliberate revenge thing, that might even merit a real life Made of Win.

...OR a {{Crowning Moment of Awesome}}.

A similar situation happened in my school. Our principal disapproved of it simply because of the name...the director then changed the play to ''Some Like It Hot.'' 3 years later (this past Spring), under a new principal and school president, they were able to perform it.

This troper experienced something similar when our high school theater group put on first Our Town and then Sweeney Todd (neither of which are particularly Moral-Guardian friendly). After complaints from parents that the shows were 'not happy enough', school officials ordered our directer to pick something catchy and fun for the next show. The result was a decidedly unexpurgated Cabaret. Hilarity ensued.

When this troper's Catholic high school did "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie", all mention of nudity was stricken and all mention of sex in the script was changed to "passionate love" despite how stupid it sounded. More egregious was the fact that the director refused to pronounce the city Edinburgh correctly and insisted that the cast follow his version. Needless to say, this troper's grandfather had more than enough reason to be pissed at the idiot.

Subverted: This troper's ecumenical-Christian-might-as-well-be-Catholic high school variety show was mostly G-rated, for the tiny tots, but got away with showing a ''lot'' of leg and multiple high-kick panty shots in a musical number from ''TheDrowsyChaperone''. It. Was. AWESOME.

That is very sad. *weeps*

This Troper's high school drama clubs were both notorious for skewering any kind of ExecutiveMeddling thrown at them until the complainer learned to mind their own business. Case in point - a new principal took over in this troper's final semester, and immediately instated a 'curse limit' on all productions. One club's response? Do the entire thing with RuleOfFunny eighteenth-century curses, save for one laser-guided xkcd quote. In a separate incident, she objected to a student singing ''If You Seek Amy'' in a show for the year level, telling the singer she had to edit the titular line. She retaliated by ''singing the actual letters''.

The theater coach at This Troper's high school in his sophomore year was actually FIRED for putting on a show that featured a lesbian as a secondary character where the only references to that character's sexuality were a few friendly jokes from another character. He then proceeded to give every student in his classes A's and tell his students that he doesn't care what they do in them on the basis of "what are they going to do, fire me?".

My Drama class was getting ready to do it's final runthrough of ''Gum and Goo'' (as well as ''Blue remembered hills'') When our Drama teacher gave the girl playing Michelle some bad news: The headteacher had heard of the play and didn't want small children hearing swear words so she wasn't allowed to say the word "Fuck" in front of the year 8 children watching them and would have to change the line "You fucking copper!". In my mind it just didn't work as well.

This Troper's High School forced the drama club to cut several instances of swearing in the plays they did. Luckily, they weren't reading too closely and everything else got through. This Troper got to personally deliver Anita's innuendo-filled solo in WestSideStory, got bruised in the last (and mildest) fight scene in the former on opening night, got to advise the cast Lola on her bustier in DamnYankees, and starred in a play that involved a rich woman faking her own death and running away with the butler. And "The Game" from Damn Yankees, which is about sex and little else, not only got performed virtually unaltered, but got some unintended accompaniment in some rehearsals from the music director's infant son.

This troper's high school drama program is usually pretty good about this, mostly because we stick to the "classics"-- that is, Shakespeare and almost everything not written by an alum written earlier than 1950. This year, we're doing a series of one-act plays-- with character names changed from the original ("Bimbo" became "Hanger-On", "Drunks" became "Loose Partiers"), dialogue changes (all swearing expunged, or rather, just crossed out, despite being extremely indicative of a character's mental breakdown) and setting updates to make one play more "relevant" despite rendering it impossible to make sense of. One play which is about a fairly G-rated summoning of a spirit (already transparently something of a demon) must have elements that could possibly be mistaken for occult by anyone overly "sensitive" in the audience completely removed. For example, our "magic spell" must not be mystical sounding or sound like real language... or sound too frightening... and the central conceit of how the spirit-summoning takes place (a circle of powder on the ground, to be lit with a match) must be replaced by just saying the magic words and opening the door to have the (friendlier, cheerier) spirit appear. Despite his purpose in the plot being to be a manipulative bastard. Damn it. It makes you wonder why they even picked out the play in the first place.

Subverted when I entered a flier a summer art camp production of IntoTheWoods(which was already the Bowdlerized junior version). I entered a piece that I never expected to win: a drawing of the Wolf, more realistic and vicious than before, about to strike (and possibly eat...or worse) a screaming Little Red Riding Hood(reflected in the wolf's eye). It looked more like a poster for a horror film than one for a sickeningly sweet musical(although that's not to say the original was so sweet either). I didn't win for completely different reasons- I got the title wrong by ONE WORD (I simply put "Into The Woods", without the Junior part, partially due to the fact that it detracted from the grimmified tone of the whole thing, and the fact that it sounded patently ridiculous)

A line in a student-written play at my brother's Catholic, nun-run school was changed from "Stick it where the sun don't shine" to the altogether less offensive, "Place it where the sun don't shine." Fortunately, the actor was able to deliver the line with enough gusto, it wasn't too horrendously stupid-sounding.

On the other hand, this troper's highschool performed {{Equus}}.

This Troper was in a production of {{Hair}} which was {{bowdlerized}} out of necessity for the most part. The song "Colored Spade" was cut because there wasn't a single black person in the cast. (This was in Maine in the 80s; not exactly racially diverse.) We cut "Sodomy" because half our funding would have been lost if we kept it in. We cut the nudity because we had a 13-year-old cast member; we ended up being ''very'' glad we did, since the performance was in January, there was a very rickety loading door at the back of the stage, and night-time temperatures went down below -20 before factoring in the wind chill. Possibly the only production of the show where the hippies wore longjohns under their filmy cotton outfits. Still, last night of the show, we got together after most of the audience was gone and sang the missing songs at the top of our lungs.

This troper's high school was torn between two different one-act plays. One was a play about the right for black children to be educated, the other a play called "Camel Lot", which was (in universe) the result of an IncrediblyLamePun. We chose the latter, because the theater teacher was worried about offending people, as one of the lines was "Black people don't need education".

An aversion so incredible, I had to share it. A complete, uncut production of ALittleNightMusic in a public high school that was not censored even when people walked out during the intermission. Only one change was made by the administrators: when a youth and his maid were discussing the fact that he had ejaculated prematurely during their attempt at sex, the maid could only zip up his pants instead of zipping up his pants and patting him on the crotch reassuringly as she had in previous performances. [[AC:Other]]

This Troper was actually forbidden to bring up any references to religion during an A.P. Human Geography course. He had sparked a debate with the teacher over the differences between Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, and was forbidden to correct the man ever again.

Here's a real wall banger: at this troper's high school, we had a Battle of the Genders week. That's right: the administration wouldn't let us call it "Battle of the Sexes" ''even though we were using it in the proper context''. Our school is...special.

I take it we mean "pencils up the nose" special?

During this troper's senior year, the tradition of football players dressing in cheerleader drag for the Powder Puff game was forbidden due to one teacher's complaints of sexism. They still did a routine as "The P.C. Powder Puff Squad," but it wasn't the same...

The same thing was banned at this troper's high school for nearly ''twenty years.'' It was only recently reinstated--provided the football players only did a cheer and didn't actually dress in drag.

This Troper grew up in a conservative, bible-belt town. I was on the school newspaper staff for a few years. Only three of my articles were published, not because they were bad, but because most had 'material to that some might consider objectionable'. One article was about bullying. It mentioned homosexuality in the form of a hypothetical lesbian girl who suffered discrimination. There were several hypothetical people: someone of a non-Christian religion, someone who had a learning disorder, and one or two other people, all which I made clear were hypothetical. I also mentioned that in real life gay people and people belonging to certain religious groups were sometimes physically harmed. The teacher insisted on running the article without the references to homosexuality against my objections. I didn't want it run if she was going to edit what I considered an important part of it. In a subversion, someone made a mistake in the editing room and my article was ran without the edits my teacher had ordered. I had nothing to do with it, but I was very happy and proud. Of course, after that, I was subtly forbidden from having anymore articles of mine published, but still.

In our high school our literary magazine had pages literally cut out of them because of the so called violence contained in it. Needless to say the editorial of the said magazine (with my friend being the head-editor) were incredibly pissed off.

A university magazine in our area had a picture of a nude woman in a tasteful, nothing-showing pose on the front cover. It was physically cut out for indecency...revealing, on the second page, another nude model in a slightly different tasteful, nothing-showing pose, which was left alone. Still haven't figured that one out.

This troper's ex is ''not'' a fan of her home country's MoralGuardians, the more fanatical of whom tend to inhabit a certain radio station that shall remain nameless, to the point of almost being a BerserkButton. The troper happened to be in the car with her when she drove past one of said radio station's advertising boards, and she launched into a half-hour rant on the subject that hit every point on their Wikipedia page's (extensive) criticism section and more.

This Troper was the deputy head prefect of his Australian public (i.e., government run) school and as such had to sit on the school's governing council. Whilst in this role, he witnessed a (Evangelical) member attempt to install a 'compliancy committee' to audit the behaviour of both students and teachers. This troper, the principal and the deputy principal quickly cut him off.

This Troper's little bio in the program for a middle school play was censored; she had added a funny quote to the end of the blurb (from a Shakespeare parody). It originally read "If we shadows have offended, think but this and all is ended: that you fell asleep on your butt and dreamed the whole thing." Final version of the program rolls off the presses with the phrase "on your butt" (and therefore a large chunk of the humor) removed.

Animaniacs reference?

This Troper's aunt excuses my cousins from class (and maybe even takes them out of school) on the days that their classes watch things she deems "inappropriate," like the puberty video. But the best had to be another aunt and uncle who didn't tell their children that my aunt was going to have a baby until either days before or until the baby was already out--is it me, or does that seem like ''too'' much protection?

Where do they tell their children babies come from, then? The ''stork?''

Better question: if they're so concerned about the "objectionable material" being taught in public schools, then ''why don't they homeschool their children?''

My family are usually fine with me playing violent games and stuff, but however when I played ''MetalGearSolid'' and got to the "Hold me Snake!" scene with Mantis and Meryl my parents got concerned. Thankfully nothing happened but they were seriously considering it.

Remember the children's book, ''Where the Wild Things Are''? Yeah, there are apparently groups out there trying to get this book banned because they feel that the imagery is too "frightening" and "intense" for young children. Funny, this troper doesn't remember ever being afraid of it when she was a small child.

Maurice Sendak responds: "I would tell them to go to hell."

They think that's scary, and yet, we have NightmareFuel.

If you have worked in customer service, no matter how innocuous that service is, you have probably met some people who fancy themselves this. This troper had a friend who once worked in a bicycle store. The entire staff had to sit through a talk by the owner about "appropriate language" after someone complained that she had overheard the friend talking to a customer about his butt. The friend was advising the customer on the subject of buying a saddle.

This troper's parents usually ban her from watching any movie that she deems interesting (aka rated 'R' for non-violent reasons). So, instead, she goes over to her friend's house and watches it there. Her friends are basically inverse moral guardians.

I've a couple stories about moral guardians...This first is about a drama festival that my school participates in. The show a year ago, for which I was involved with, was not allowed to move on in the competition. It was based on the life of Jim Morrison, and as such, involves a rock star becoming addicted to drugs, etc. After the first public performance, people went ''RIGHT UP TO THE PRINCIPAL'' and complained that it "promoted drug use" (it did quite the opposite; the main character's girlfriend left him, his groupie, and, although his band (barely) didn't leave him, the manager DID get his ex-girlfriend), and so it was cancelled. Never mind that the only explicit, inappropriate conduct was a scene that led up to--but didn't finish with--oral sex. And the girl was fine with it! And her parents were (kinda) fine with it!

My second is about my drama teacher, who completely subverts MoralGuardian. Hell, he even applauds ideas involving themes like internal (Gods damn you, RougeAnglesOfSatin!!!) ''Eternal'' damnation, and two (grade ten) students doing a piece which plays out like the intro to soft(almost ''hard''--pun intended!)-core porn!!!

This troper's camp regularly Macekres their plays, even HighSchoolMusical. But the worst was when they made a play of StarWars, and cut out Vader's death.

This troper hates that self-proclaimed so-called moral guardians are associated with conservative Christians. He is a conservative Christian and hates moral guardians, and hates even more being associated with them. Please don't do it. That is all.

It is not that conservative Christians are being singled out as the only MoralGuardians, but many MoralGuardians ''are'' conservative Christians, and they frequently use their beliefs as justification. Hence the flak.

Same troper here. Are we all forgetting about the atheists who want to ban all religious references from the airwaves and the liberals who scream "think of the children" even when the target audience doesn't include children? Not to mention PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad and the StrawmanPolitical?

"the liberals who scream "think of the children" " Wat? Um, I think you're mixed up. We are the ones who tell those assholes to shut the fuck up, not the ones doing the screaming.

Same replying troper here. Maybe I didn't phrase that very well, but I wasn't trying to single out anyone in particular, I happen to think that all MoralGuardians are as bad as each other regardless of which side of the political/religious spectrum they come from. I do know that for every JackThompson you get you're likely to get a Joe Liebermann as well...

Amen brother! I'm a conservative, and even I hate moral guardians. Do you know what I do when I feel offended by someone else's work? I JUST LEAVE THE DAMN PLACE! and that's all! Let the people decide what they want to see (But then again, I support gay marriage and I think creationism is ridiculous...Yes, I'm special)

Gotta put my $0.02 in here now. I'm an old-school conservative... hell, I'll go beyond that, I'm a Foundationist (Meaning that I believe that the Constitution should be adhered to as WRITTEN and AMENDED, not "interpreted"). I believe that there should be LESS government regulation, not more. Censorship, to me, is an abhorrent affront to the First Amendment, and frankly I hate the fact that Congress or anyone else seems to think they can have a say in what people watch or listen to. It should be the parents - not the government - that says "Think of the Children." The Constitution was written in a very specific way, and to think people are trying to twist it to their own purposes is... to me, it's just like trying to twist the Bible to their own purposes. And the fact that censorship is being "blamed" on Conservatives obviously don't know what the hell a real conservative is all about.

Marry me! (It's OK if you're a guy, I'm the conservative who supports gay rights)

I love you all! Seriously, thanks for FINALLY stating not every conservative Christian is a moral guardian.

Let's just go on record and say that, regardless of your political leaning, you're an idiot if you can't just step up and be a parent rather than rely on the FCC and such to do the work for you. That's it. Conservative or liberal, I'm sure if you're in here, you can agree on this. ;-)

Just remember: For every village, there is an idiot.

I'll go a step further with each of you. I'm a Conservative ROMAN CATHOLIC who routinely browses the interwebs and find NO PROBLEM with things like South Park, Anime, and Video Games. Granted, there IS such a thing as 'going to far', but I don't make a stink about it. And every time someone does, I would like to put my foot through their face.

This troper's mother was on the school conicle when her older sister was in high school. A mother wanted to ban horror books from the library, so each parent was given a horror short story book to read; her mother's was "Short and Shivery", which is basically a collection of creepy international Folk Tales. The illustrations were harmless, and most of the stories featured skeletons; all the parents ended up agreeing that horror books are are okay, and they're still available to read at her school library.

Adverted for one event in This Troper's (hard core MoralGuardians) Catholic school. I am, of course, talking about the King of Hearts competition. The whole premise behind it was to get male students to dress in drag and participate in a beauty competition. It went horribly (And I mean that as a good thing) wrong when one of the contestant's talent was getting on stage and shaking his ass to "Get Busy" by Sean Paul. Needless to say, we may not be having the competition next year...

ThisTroper's high school gave ''suspensions'' to same-sex couples showing any kind of affection in the hallway. Straight couples? ''Didn't get punished at all''.

That's a lawsuit right there on grounds of discrimination.

I was actually suspended for kissing my boyfriend unlike the straight couple caught in the back of a car in the school parking lot. Catholic school is just the best.

As someone who's not exactly in favor of gays, even I say that's unfair!

You should have used my old stand-by. Tell the school board to do something with the threat of going to the news otherwise. It works for me.

This troper's 10th grade English teacher gave us debate assignments halfway through the year, with the guidelines that you couldn't choose something controversial like abortions or gay marriage. A few of the kids really wanted to do those topics, though, so the teacher eventually gave in on the condition that there would be no fighting or getting angry. A friend's mother heard about the gay marriage bit and ''flipped''. She emailed the teacher, principal, and super-intendent ''extremely'' nasty letters, and essentially stated that said English teacher was a horrible person and sucked at teaching and demanded that her daughter be taken out of the debates because children 'our age' shouldn't be discussing such things. Keep in mind that I said we were in tenth grade. 16 years old. Her daughter was ''very'' angry with her (she doesn't share her views) and tried to convince the teacher to let her stay, but she was taken out of the class for three days while they debated. The teacher was afraid of doing anything out of line for the rest of the year.

In This Troper's history class, the teacher normally gets the discussion started by assigning a group of students (or in my case, a student), to do a presentation regarding the country/group/era concerned. This Troper was assigned Germany for his presentation, and presented it for approval. The teacher than asked me to edit out all the Nazi references in the part about World War II and the year preceding it, because she was afraid it would "inspire the rest of the class to follow their examples".

Inverted somehow in my school: The assignment was to do a presentation about different countries (Germany included) and it was NOTHING but Nazi stuff, including a girl dressed as a SS Officer...To this Sephardic Jew troper, see Nazi memorabilia in the school was...Creepy

Really? Because it's, well, you know, FAKE! She wasn't REALLY a Nazi!

To original troper: It would be different if your teacher thought it would offend people, but if she thinks hearing about the Nazis will ''convert your class to their beliefs'', then I think that says more about your class than the teacher.

Wonderfully averted at this lurker's school. You can pretty much get away with any content in a play because the Headmaster is ''terrified'' of the head of the Drama department, who happens to be into 'they'll learn about it [sex, drugs, violence] eventually - might as well teach them on stage instead of the streets'. And over six feet tall. And a former body builder. Also, this lurker's Classical Civilisation teacher is always peppering his lectures with lewd jokes and hilariously over the top language. They can't fire him because he's the only teacher for the subject.

This Troper's Classical Civilisation teacher is a lot like that. He's also a eccentric. He sometimes puts his chair up on his desk and sits in it, and issues a weekly word puzzle to the rest of the staff. But he's retiring this year. D:

This troper was part of an "underground" school newspaper during her last year of high school. Because we weren't affiliated with the school (technically), the school administrators couldn't censor us, but it's not like they didn't try. Also, that was the year a nearby school newspaper, one of the few that could still publish whatever they wanted, lost its first-amendment rights for publishing a controversial article.

Huh, that wouldn't happen to be SHS would it?

Nope, my school was a CHS and the one that got in trouble was a PHS.

This troper's school recently got rid of a popular club on campus. They were the Cheerboys, in other words, guys who dressed up in short-shorts and crop tops and did humorous (and admittedly rather suggestive) dances at assemblies and half time, sort of as {{Fanservice}} aimed at girls in addition to cheerleaders for the guys. They were not cut for this, but for apparently mocking the gay lifestyle.

This fifteen-year-old troper's parents think that most PG-13 movies are inappropriate for her (although her thirteen-year-old sister is allowed to watch anything she is, which is just not fair). Never mind that this troper can hear worse things in the lunch room. Never mind that she often tells them that she knows the swear words and that-- shocker!-- sex exists. Unmarried people have it. No, if it can't be discussed in front of my grandmother, it doesn't exist as far as I'm concerned.

A few of this troper's classmates got in trouble back in high school for plastering a great deal of drawn phalluses all over the place. Predictably, it didn't go over well.

When This Troper was in middle school, the principal got angry at people wearing hats backwards which apparently indicated they were gangsters. Worse, she once yelled at a group of kids playing tug of war because it had "war" in its name.

Solution: Change the name to "tugsies".

This Troper was never introduced to {{Harry Potter}} at her school. It wasn't even stocked in the library. The reason? Because it contained magic. This Troper had to laugh at the irony that, within a few years, despite the school's determination to shelter us from fake magic, almost 80% of This Troper's grade wound up incorporating various levels of Wicca and other forms of spell-casting practices into their lives, including casting magic at school. (This Troper may or may not have started that trend on purpose).

This troper's mom was one of these when he was younger, although compared to one of his coworkers, she was far more lenient on what was considered acceptable. I can understand my coworker not wanting her young kids to watch shows like TwoAndAHalfMen, but she described the content she found objectionable in a way that made it sound far worse than it really was; to put it lightly, it supposedly made ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia look as wholesome and family-friendly as HappyDays.

This troper's high school has a parent trying to ban Laurie Halse Anderson's "Twisted" from the entire school corporation after her son read in class, on the grounds that the lead character contemplates suicide and notices girls have breasts. Never mind that it's a story about a boy who makes all the right decisions in a horrible situation; what makes this truly stupid is that half the classics in the school library have far more objectionable content.

This 19 year old troper's parents ban him from playing games such as ''GrandTheftAuto'' and ''SaintsRow'' as well as listening to gangsta rap music. Don't think that stops him from sneaking said "offensive material" into the house and hiding it where they won't look.

For a little while, we couldn't play almost anything at my elementary school because one mother went crazy about a "rule" that stated that children were not allowed to touch each other. No football, basketball, not even tag.

I feel you. This grown up adult, young adult, adult shaped, adult of a troper, aged 19 has to deal with that crap at her transition to work facility. (Not naming any names) We're all over the age of 18, accidents would happen, but That Is Life. We're not violent people anyway (Minus the careless sociopath). Besides the fact tht it would never happen because we respect each other (Minus the sociopath) and yeah We. Are. Adults. (Minus the sociopath) Fuck it. My "Teacher" gets really mad sometimes if we touch each other just a little bit too long or too heavily. (I mean friendlily putting one persons legs on top of each other as a display of affection, nothing sexual or violent about that, or even poking each other in a talking communication way gets stressed looks). It still didn't stop a perve (The sociopath) doing perverted things in public and people being sexually harrassed (By the sociopath). I'd rather have a no violence, no sexual harrassment/actions, respect everybody thing. Over that CRAPPPPPPPPPP! We Are ADULTS! Dammit.

(Same troper) In his defence, there is only one guy who should not be allowed near humans: the token sociopath who takes pleasure from tormenting people and being irritating and thinks girls are objects and gets off when you smile at him by accident (and you know the feeling of power of making somebody irritated with you and move away from you). He should be banned from touching, harrassing, inappropriately placing his body next to another students body and generally being an arrogant kcockhead who thinks he invented breathing and is the only person in the whole entire world (which counts). That Is Life..but the rest of us are perfectly, fine, sane, sympathetic, empathetic human beings, who communicate normally and care about each other standardly and are nice in our own special ways and respect each other.

(Same Troperrrr) The teacher's favourite is in fact the sociopath, in an ironic twist you totally saw coming. That Is Life.

This troper's mother was one of these. She banned me and my siblings from watching {{Arthur}} because DW was being bratty, StaticShock because a kid brought a gun to school (even though it was a VerySpecialEpisode ''against'' gun violence), walked out on ThePacifier because of (again) bratty kids, (initially) banned us from reading {{Bionicle}} comics because they were described as "mystical," and is of the belief that we should never watch anything that we would not show to a five-year-old. She also believed that all video games were MurderSimulators, only recanting that view when she played WiiPlay at a friend's house. She also wants to screen all the movies we bring home. The last straw was when she saw the ''cover'' of LiarLiar and declared it off-limits. After that, we just watched them in our rooms without showing them to her. Don't get me wrong. I love the woman to death, but I'm afraid to show her anything for fear she get offended, because when she gets mad, she gets ''really'' mad.

How are you allowed to type this, she sounds like she wouldn't allow access to the internet.

Her "Guardian-ness" has slackened off in the last few years as, with all three siblings either in college or having their driver's licences, she realizes there isn't a lot she can do to stop us. And we tend to operate under a YouDidntAsk routine.

Here in Florida, the Hillsborough County school system just banned Augusten Burroughs' ''Running With Scissors'' in two high schools, and the rest either have warning stickers or require signed parental permission to borrow. The Riverview HS panel commented that "There are no good guys in this book. There's a corrupt doctor. No one at the boy's school, no grownup at all, helped this child. So we felt there was no need to keep the book," and regarding the antagonists, there is "a total lack of negative consequences throughout the book." Keep in mind, this book is a '''''memoir''''', as clearly labeled on the front cover and multiple times inside. One of the people who called for the ban said, "If children want to read about an abusive mother, they should read ''Mommie Dearest'' instead." Well, ''Mommie Dearest'' is indeed still on school shelves. As is that seminal child abuse classic, ''A Child Called It'', plus ''{{Lolita}}'' and ''CatcherInTheRye''. Way to go, guys. A number of students have questioned the banning as being rooted in homophobia.

This Troper was once told off in a seventh-grade art class for drawing a person smoking a cigarette in the same room with a child. For the record, that (smoking in the same room as a child) ''is'' illegal in Finland. I ended up ruining the drawing by adding a door to the picture, so that the child would technically be in another room.

This Troper attended a Christian elementary school. Our librarian was...quite the Moral Guardian. She didn't allow any sort of fantasy whatsoever, except (if I recall correctly) ''TheChroniclesOfNarnia''. Not even ''TheLordOfTheRings'' made it in (despite Tolkien being the one who converted C.S. Lewis to Christianity). She also whited out any swearing she found in books, and a reference to a ghost on a poster illustrating some literary term. She was eventually succeeded by This Troper's mother, an avid fantasy reader who, shall we say, made up for lost time.

My friend, back in high school, had the wrath of our English teacher brought upon him. He was, according to her, viewing 'lewd, disgusting material', that was 'corrupting the mind of other innocent students'. The material: A picture of two male anthro foxes hugging/kissing. 2 days later another kid was busted with hardcore porno, while he was masturbating. IN CLASS. The teacher didn't actually catch him in the act, just with the porn. He got 2 lunchtime detentions for 'possessing inappropriate material'. My friend got suspended, and almost expelled. According to my older brother, who had her previously, she is a notorious homophobe. He got lucky and transferred out of her class. I was stuck with her for another five months.

But if he was... How... How can no one notice a guy mas-... Didn't anyone freak out... I-I mean how can anyone not see...AAAAAAARRRGGGHHH!

My high school has some pretty nonsensical rules concerning what the students should be allowed to do "morally". We can't show our shoulders or have holes in our jeans (even at the knee) because it will cause naughty sexual thoughts that children our age (15-18) shouldn't have. Also, my 10th grade English teacher seemed bent on making sure my class had Christian values, to the point where she sent out permission slips to parents to make sure that it would be okay to talk about different religious views in her class room. I didn't matter much since she would tack on, "Now isn't that weird/wacky/crazy/strange?" whenever she talked about things like atheism and Peaganism and whatnot to drive the point home.

In junior high, I was on the school newspaper, and wrote a pretty in-depth article about {{Bowdlerization}} in the anime industry (which was rampant at the time, about five or six years ago). I kind of had to mention sexuality - hell, I had a whole section on Haruka and Michiru - as it was one of the things most commonly taken out of edited anime. The newspaper adviser told me to take out all the references to sex, as they were inappropriate for a junior-high aged audience. Yes, my article on censorship... was censored.

As a (Dutch) librarian I come across people who routinely will complain to me about us having (adult) video games, (adult) comics and (adult) movies in the ADULTS SECTION where kids could get them. These items are blocked on your library card if you do not have the appropiate age (required by law these days). Exceptions are: you need the material for school (mostly informative books or literature, sometimes classic/adapted movies and schools tend to give us pointers on what projects they have) or your parent/guardian gave permission (in person) to put it on their card. So if your kid has gotten it's hands on a 16+ horror movie or videogame from the library and you are complaining about it's availability, remember: This means you gave permission or they somehow needed it for class. The other option is that they stole it from us.

This troper's school blocks certain sites from being accessed by their students, such as Facebook, My Space, TV Tropes (much to my anger) and YouTube. Everyone hates this. Fun fact: this troper found out by a few experiments that you can get onto YouTube if you know how, and the school doesn't block a variety of forums or '''4chan'''. Yep.

Oh, you can add Twitter, adultfanfiction.net and fanfiction.net to that list of sites it doesn't block. :) Although one wall banger--the computers block TheNostalgiaChick's section of the That Guy With The Glasses site, but not the site itself. This troper is still pissed.

This has recently come up as a topic of discussion at college, the problem is of course that these sites can be used for slacking off, they can also be used for getting new information or having a meaningful conversation. IT has made the sensible decision not to block the sites, since profs and teachers are using the sites as well nowadays, it's probably for the best.

Also, this troper has found it quite hilarious that the school he went to was trigger happy with the blocking, yet the one thing they left untouched? Porn. Especially of the furry variety.

Our school has just gone nuts with the site blocker. Blocking porn? Perfectly understandable, it's a highschool after all. Blocking a website because it has risque content? A little overkill, but seems fair. Blocking a site because it uses the word breast on a freaking ''breast cancer website''. Pointless and stupid. Blocking a website that lets you play as a cute little penguin who collects snowballs with his sweet little friends? ''What. The. Hell?''

During a short stint as a systems/network administrator at a high school, our policy ended up being "no filtering, let the teachers walk around and tell us about suspect behaviour" since we found out the hard way that simply filtering stuff would accomplish 2 things: 1: Teachers would blame us for kids slacking off in class by visiting non-blocked websites. Preferring to sit behind the desk and not actually try to maintain order, and 2: A lot of kids failing a class because they couldn't finish their projects due to inaccessible websites needed for them.

0dd1: In my school, the people in charge of blocking access to certain sites are notoriously narcissistic (the man in charge calls himself Commander--well, I won't give the full name, but he thinks he's a spaceman and actually makes each of the blocking messages begin thusly: "FAIL!!"), the filters target not only video and social networking sites (except Twitter, bizarrely) but also downloaded video games, AIM, {{Cracked}}, the search term "flash games" (as well as the word "game" in a webpage's name for some time) and at one point TheOtherWiki (for no apparent reason), and the students are notorious for constantly finding ways around the filters. Most of the time it's proxy websites we use to get around the filters, so there was a ban on the instance of the word "proxy" as well. Hilarity ensued when my group in my psychology class had to research Munchausen's by-proxy for a project as a result.

In This Troper's university, one of the computer labs blocks Twitter, Facebook, online games and most music/video streaming webpages. So far, so good. But... porn and most "warez" web pages are not blocked: one can easily download torrents from there - thus resulting in the university receiving a lot of DMCA notices, or at least hog up the entire bandwidth of the lab, or spend all his day watching porn. It used to be worse: the word "game" was blocked in all URLs, so you wanted to search about 'game theory' or 'game development'? Sorry for you.

Completely and 100% averted by this troper(I/me)'s mother who, among other things, explained sex to me when I was nine, and not only allowed me to but actively made sure I go to school on days when puberty and sex was discussed; mostly because her own parents were Moral Guardians themselves and she didn't want to be like that with me since she believes their actions are the root of her psychological problems. She's implied that my dad might've played this straight though were he still alive, though more in regards to how I dress (jeans, band t-shirts, no make-up, a lot of black/dark colors) than anything else.

This troper's got you one better. My mom has always been of the "If they ask a question, answer honestly" variety, so I got the full "where babies come from" discussion at three. I also got discussions on "unusual" (i.e. not white picket fence, ma and pa and 2.5 kids from TV) relationships all throughout my life, culminating in my mom coming out when I was in high school. Though she was a little censor-y about some things (Beevis and Butthead, Ren and Stimpy, fighting games, Rugrats...)

When This Troper was in highschool, all higher up faculty members (read: not teachers) would make me take off my bandana, which was rolled up and used as a headband (I have long hair, it helps keep it out of my face). Apperently, as a guy with a headband I must be a gang member, but the scores of girls with headbands and bandanas in a more 'gangster' style can't be. Blech. I was fine while I was in my classes though.

This Troper was so angered with MoralGuardians that he considered them as TheScrappy of the universe. Okay, He doesn't hate moral guardians that much, but this troper will ''snap'' if something gets BannedInChina because of the moral guardians. Here is how he scales MoralGuardians: Blocking NSFW such as FourChan and Encyclopedia Dramatica? That's fine with him. Blocking porn? Fine. Blocking games? Fine. Blocking Wikipedia, Yahoo, Google, TV Tropes, and other harmless websites? Not. fine. at. all.

This troper lives in Colorado. Specifically, a place so full of StrawmanPolitical types you'd assume you walked into a farm field, including a lot of walking StrawHypocrite types, too. If you ever mentioned how many ''books'' or old movies contain violence, sex, or swearing as opposed to these Video games (of which they ''obviously'' have never even seen more than the box art at '''''MOST'''''), they'd automatically dismiss it and say that it wasn't teaching kids to act up in school. They thought columbine was caused by ''Doom'', and are ''so'' dumb, I could tell them I spent my entire weekend reading ''DragonQuestIX'' and they'd congratulate me on spending my weekend productively - never mind that ''DragonQuestIX'' is a ''game''.

This troper's sister forced her to remove all the tastefully done photographs and drawings of the nude or mostly-naked or not-mostly-naked-but-provocative women on her blog because she considered them to be "tacky", "trashy", "tasteless", etc., etc. Because everybody knows that showing yourself naked or in sexual positions makes you trashy and worthless, without regard for the idea that the human body is a beautiful thing and nothing to be ashamed of.

I hate it when people do that. There is classy and even worthwhile sexy/sensualness. It exists.

How exactly did she manage to ''force'' you to remove something from your ''blog''? In an age where many adults are informed about Milgram's experiments etc. one would expect such peer pressure to push the BerserkButton instead...

At this Troper's old high school, our newspaper published a very tasteful story talking about sexual trends among the student body. Instead of using the article as a jumping-off point to talk to their kids, a small group of parents (his fanatically Evangelical Christian one of them) decided that they would make it their personal mission to ruin the editor in chief's scholastic career. By the end of the year, the majority of the staff was suspended and barred from the newspaper, the editor was expelled, and the journalism teacher was fired. Additionally, multiple new clauses were added to the contract that all clubs and organizations had to sign to become officially sponsored, allowing for stricter control over content by the school board. For writing an article CONDEMNING students who performed sexual acts on school grounds. Buh-duh-wha?

Subverted by my 6th Grade English teacher, who made us research the play Romeo and Juliet without any changes and even made us research it in Old English. The aforementioned Old English was not butchered, as you might have expected.

This troper was looking for articles for her research paper on role models (which is a hive for MoralGuardians anyways) and she came across an article that was worried about impressionable nineteen-year-olds. That's right, '''impressionable nineteen-year-olds'''. This troper was in shock for a whole minute.

Well, at the tender age of nineteen, such young children are so easily influenced!

This troper's father won't let her go to her friend's homes because he believes that their parents will give her drugs and alcohol.

This troper's home country recently classified airsoft guns as real weapons. Also, there is a strong movement seeking to ban the sport altogether, because it violates "human dignity". I happen to think that, ironically, it violates my own dignity for someone else to tell me what I can and cannot do with it. And I don't even play airsoft.

This troper once wrote an editorial in his Intro to Journalism class about a school PSA that involved a condom and was therefore banned by the principal. I took the negative stance, saying that it was stupid that parents try and censor issues that are very real and on the news every day, plus the fact that the video was warning ''against'' sex without protection. I ended it by saying "This is high school, not some kindergarten class where a kid will raise their hand and ask 'Teacher, what's sex?'

If I may add my story(s):

It's halloween, and despite it only being a harmless decoration, I have been informed that no, I cannot hang a noose from the tree in my front yard, because apparently any reference to hanging is automaticly refering to hanging black people, which makes no sense whatsoever. PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad much?

As a kid, my mom refused to let me watch Spongebob and the fairly Oddparents because "the people in it aren't nice to eachother." No, thats seriously the reason she gave.

People in my family aren't nice to eachother, and nobody censored me from them! Seriously, mean people exist in the world. I can think of better reasons to bar my kids from watching those shows.

My school drama department averts this though. We've gotten away with uncensored versions of Sweet Charity and The Producers.

This troper has made it his first priority, to, after successfully becoming a supervillain, see if a microwave ray could be focused to make some of the slightly more obnoxious Moral Guardians' heads asplode.

Completely averted with this Tropers parents. The first PG-13 I ever watched was '''Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls''' while my mom was in the room, and I was about ten at the time. Also, she would read to me and my sister when we were younger. The series? HarryPotter. They also don't mind about what games I play or think that manga is the 'spawn of the devil'. There was a small instance where my mom bought me the first novel for TrueBlood and she took it away for a bit to see if it was 'appropriate for me to read', but I brushed it off since she's a fan of vampires and wanted to read it. Then she informed me that there were graphic sex scenes and bisexual vampires (which didn't bother me that much), but she finally let me read it when I turned eighteen by saying that I should be mature enough to read things like that. ...Thing is, I ''hate'' sex scenes so damn much. Oh well.

You should have convinced her that you weren't really any different at 17 and 11 months then you were at 18, and read it right before you turned 18.

Or you could have read it secretly before you were eighteen. If your library is anything like mine, you can borrow books and not even your parents can access your borrowing records, even while you are still a minor. Or you could have bought it after school and smuggled it home in your backpack.

In middle school, everyone's favorite game to play at recess was Mafia. When the vice principal found out, he made us change the name of the game to Italians. The UnfortunateImplications did not fail to reach a single one of us.

And when our English teacher found out about ''The Golden Compass'' (this was around the time the movie was being released), she urged us all not to see it, because of its *gasp* atheist themes. Naturally, a lot of us who previously didn't care about it immediately decided "holy shit we need to see this movie".

This troper's high school had to take down a "winter tree" that was decorated with the school colors with no references to Christianity at all. Because one or two people said it made them uncomfortable, for God knows what reason. Pine trees = Jesus now, apparently.

Christmas trees...aren't even Christian, or related to the Nativity Story. Dendrophobia?

One of this troper's English (foreign language here) teachers in high school tried, not very successfully, to impose politically correct language in class. Her credibility wasn't helped by the fact that I and at least 2-3 classmates knew English better than her (though she wasn't bad). Still, I didn't swear within her earshot.

I asked for, and got, TheShining for Christmas. My mom confiscated the book. ''On the same day.'' (Sure, maybe I was a little young, but she could have waited until the 26th.)

At my middle school, we did an assignment/contest in art class. There was an art contest coming up where we had to make a Western-themed picture, and the teacher decided to make the theme an assignment. So everyone does their picture, and it turns out, guns had to be censored, so people either had to black them out of their drawing or I guess put a piece of paper over it. That would kind of suck if the gun was prominent in your drawing.

At my high school, we have a few religious clubs. Early in the year the Christian club got permission to have a prayer meet-up at the front of the building before classes started. The Muslim club wanted to do their own prayer meetup. They ask the higher-ups for permission, and they were denied because said higher-ups thought it would cause "too much trouble" and "make people uneasy". DoubleStandard, much?

This troper's old high school had a system that blocked certain websites on school grounds, as I'm sure most schools do. Thing was though, the school librarians were the ones who decided what was and was not appropriate, and constantly monitored the sites everyone went to. I once followed a comic site/blog, the creator being a lesbian. She never said anything horribly graphic about sex or anything like that, her comics were PG-rated and on her blog, the ''most'' she would say about her love life was that she'd gone on a "date" (her way of phrasing it) with her girlfriend. That was ''all.'' After about two weeks, the website was blocked at school because of, and I quote, "Promoting a more adult, alternative lifestyle." What.

This troper was kept from watching ''OutlawStar'' when he was in second grade by his mother. Keep in mind I'd watched ''DragonBallZ'' without batting an eye.

When this troper was a kid, his mother banned he and his sisters from saying The S Word. What word, you ask? Stupid.

I hear you man. When I was little, there was a 'bad word' for the whole frickin' alphabet. For nostalga's sake, here's the list: Aside from the obvious "regular swears," there was another 'B-word' (bastard), 'C-word,' ('''crap'''), any variant of "friggin" or "freakin," hell, idiot (no, really), ''jerk'' was a bad word, moron, piss, stupid, shut up, and I think a few other ones too. Of course, I was like 4-5-ish, but '''still!'''

Feel for you guys too. My mom banned the word "heck" from our house. ''Heck''.

Well, my mom banned the word ''"devil"'''. No joke.

A few years ago, my aunt said that she didn't want children saying another 'S-word' around her. Suck. As in the phrase, "this sucks". Last month we went to her house again, and it seems that rule is still enforced. Since we're all teenagers, that word must obviously mean we're talking about blowjobs, amirite?

A colleague of this troper's mother attempted to have ''TheHungerGames'' removed from her school library. I don't know if she was successful or not.

This troper's Algebra 2 teacher. Other than being a total jerk and not a very good teacher, she also happens to be ''insane.'' She apparently thinks Halloween is a worship of the devil (and gives long speeches about it to the class on how its evil, despite that anyone who knows the history of Halloween knows its not that at all!), freely admitted that the only songs she'll ever sing are Jesus songs, scolded me in front of the class for whispering the terrible swear of "crap" (and then did it again when I instead said "crabcakes" because I was "just replacing the dirty word!")and made me wear my heavy coat throughout all of class because the shirt I was wearing showed the ''slightest'' shadow of cleavage (seriously, I don't have that much cleavage to show anyway!) Oh, and she told my sister she does the quite illegal thing of ''spending any detention with a non-Christian kid trying to convert them.'' This troper is a conservative Christian, and I want to just punch her in the face for making the rest of us look bad!

That sounds an awful lot like a particular someone with similar outlooks. Even the Halloween part is dead-on.

I'd make her my own personal project. Purposely get detention with her. Proceed to sing songs like {{Kiss}}: Heaven's On Fire (it's actually about sex, like almost every other song by them) and {{Sabaton}}: Burn Your Crosses. Swear using British swears/slang (calling her a berk in class would be funny). There'd be others of course, but those would be the first things. When I get bored, record her trying to convert me (a dedicated atheist) with my phone. Put it on my computer, my father's computer, my mother's two computers and our other computer. Then play it for her while telling her what I'm going to do (give it to the news). When she (predictably) takes my phone and deletes it, give my best EvilLaugh and tell her about the six backups. Then go to the news.

This troper made the horrible mistake of following the link on the main page to the Childcare Action Project moron's site (I know, I shouldn't insult him; he's well-intentioned, but takes it too far), and all movie-watching (or media) has been ruined for me for the next two weeks, if I'm lucky. Seriously, this guy is just...wow. He claimed that Scar's mention of the "gene pool" ''in the context of an idiom'' was an offense to God because it suggests evolution! Seriously! He seems so proud of how "objective" his system is, but really, he doesn't realize that objectivity has its disadvantages; you have to look at the context before you can call something offensive - and aside from that, he (or whoever) is the one who chooses to add all those petty little things into his system, so it can never be fully objective. His hateful rant against TheGiver was mind-bogglingly incorrect (or maybe he understands, but was mad because it was too scary for grade-schoolers...I was too disgusted to read all of it), so much that I wanted to e-mail him to point out the errors. But wait! I can't do that, because on his "What E-mail Do We Get?" page, he writes off ''anybody who disagrees with him'' as some surly teenager who's upset that their parents decided to raise 'em right or something. I could go on, but...no. I've said my piece. Closing commentary: Sorry, dude, but I think you missed the point. A movie that is totally free of any offense would have no conflict, no plot, no nothing - it would play no part in imparting any sort of moral on kids or teens or anybody, because in order to get people to heed your good advice, you have to show the negative consequences of making bad choices. (Sorry about this, but I just had to vent. And for the record, my family is Christian and moderately conservative, and we're all offended and sickened that this VocalMinority is so...vocal. Even my very conservative redneck family would think that this is pure tripe! Okay, I'm done.)

This rant on the Parents Television Council by this troper could possbly defy this trope, especially after this tropette stumbled acrossed it and thoroughly read through the details, which made herself regret feeling too nervous of having to read gritty literary masterpieces with profanity as part of her high school's ELA curricula after having to deal with hearing F-bombs that are obviously part of those masterpieces reverberating in the hallways, on the bus, and in the cafeteria, and watching a few clips of R-rated films in classes as teaching tools as soon as those moments came, even when she came across other rants similar to this one over the past year or two. As of now, she supposedly felt proud of herself to rely on school in order to make her into the fearless and daring young woman she is today. Wow, she must've took the "stay in school" phrase quite seriously.

Speaking of which, this same tropette was afraid that in her "Intro to Broadcast Writing" course she took in the Spring 2011 semester at her community college, when the professor conversed that trope by mentioning the Parents Television Council, along with why classic LooneyTunes and TomAndJerry cartoons have been yanked off the airwaves in the 2000s, the folks that were in the class along with her were going to react negatively to that because of how possibly "near and dear" the cartoons they grew up with were to those people because of how they might have influenced them, so she decided to claim moral guardians as an extremely justified example of the NostalgiaFilter for people in her age group, especially since one of the folks exited the room saying, "I'm gonna recreate RockosModernLife" when the lecture was over for the evening. Luckily she hardly ever noticed that when that happened, especially since she temporarily lost interest in those cartoons at that time and was focusing more on finishing high school and starting college from that point until a few years later, and she is currently doing very well. She was going to mention that CartoonNetwork finally started airing the classic LooneyTunes shorts daily again besides just TomAndJerry, but she supposedly never bothered mentioning them to the professor because she did not want to aggravate him and/or interrupt his lecture.

Ironically, this was the same professor she had for the Intro to Telecommunications course she took in the Fall 2007 semester, and some students in that class jeered and responded negatively at the professor when he mentioned the details mentioned above in a lecture for that course that were supposedly describing MediaWatchdogs, which was coincidentally around the same time she first stumbled across a bunch of rants from people in her age group expressing their NostalgiaFilter on the Internet.

This Troper had a friend in '''6th grade''' who wasn't allowed to watch '''SpongeBob''' because he says "stupid" and "shut up."

This troper's mother disapproved of swearing so strongly that she told me off if I said "Bog off". I still don't understand how that is rude language today!

Thankfully, this troper's life was an aversion. I learnt about sex through my classmates at 10 (and thought it was a special kind of hug... and that both participants didn't get naked), and my high school Physics teacher made jokes about a man's... down below. He called up three male volunteers to the front of the class and gave them different-sized rods made of either wood or glass. Then while explaining a made-up "backstory", he said (students named omitted) "X is sad because his stick is smaller than everyone else's." This was the only Physics class I ever seriously paid attention to.

''Frostsabre.'' Averted in my school's play one year. "We are black people; we are not niggas" or something like that was part of the script, unedited.

Also I used not to be allowed to watch Nickelodeon (at 6 years old, mind you) because my dad objected to the "Slime Time Live" interludes. Seven or so years later, you'd find a Halo 3 disc in my room.

So many moral guardians in this tropette's life:

Fifth grade computer teacher barred us from saying "What the" because "it always leads to an offensive word. Most of my fifth grade class didn't learn a bad word until grade seven. Also, we were fifth graders, the worst I've heard was "shut up". Oh, the offensive word in question? Heck. And yet the teacher was fine with it on our journals. Our class just started saying "WHAT in THE world" to get her mad.

My former middle school principle. Our schools initials were PMS (go figure). So when the Publications class needed a name for the broadcast on of the names was PMS Monthly. Everyone, even the teachers, were ok with the name. Even took a poll on the student body to see if it would offend them. Principal still said no. I say the name was poor planning on the city's part.

Friend's parent would not let us watch TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy because of the violence. Cartoony, funny, PERFECTLY ACCEPTABLE FOR FIVE YEAR OLDS VIOLENCE. We were twelve when this indicent happened.

Eight grade English teacher was really against using God as a swear word, so in a notebook entry I used "oh my Gerfingerpokken" instead.

Parents, thankfully are an aversion. They were the "if they ask questions, give a sarcastic answer and then tell the the truth" type. Their answers were nicer than it sounds.

This troper's mother is convinced that Anime and Manga (my favorite activities now that HarryPotter is over) are evil and turn your brain to mush. Now I've been reduced to secretly reading scanlations online, (with my school website waiting in another window just in case) and watching anime while my parents are out of the house.

My former employer tried Web filtering to prevent slacking off and lawsuits. It lasted about three days: this is the job where I had a work-related reason to go to JennaJameson's Web site.

This 19-year-old troper's mother is not ''typically'' like this, but has her moments. I watched ''ReturnToOz'' a while back, and she sat down to watch it with me. To note, this is one of my favorite movies, has been since I was about four. She knew that, and yet, when it got to the electroshock therapy, she launched into a tirade about how scary and innappropriate it was. She even went so far as to say that it was a terrible film because it was a bit frightening, and asked me, and I quote, "How can someone be so depraved as to enjoy something like this?" When I reminded her that ''I'd'' first seen it when I wasn't even old enough to start school, she muttered something about it still being too scary and left the room. Interestingly, this is the same woman who bought me ''DangerousLiaisons'' for my birthday...

From what I've heard, a girl I know wasn't allowed to watch KikisDeliveryService just because it was about a witch. Oh, and she was ''ten''. ''Really now...''

I(Edgy) notice this trope with a lot of the Troper Tales pages. Perfectly good examples of tropers in real-life deleted maybe only for the reasons that other people do not like. Take TroperTales/BatmanGambit for example. That page is pretty much void of any real examples aside from some lame stories about card games and Chess. There were a few good example on there, but someone deleted them for "curating" and they were bile or anything like that.

This troper's aunt whom I live with banned me from watching TheBoondocks when I was younger, because she thought it's use of the word 'nigga' was demeaning to black people. This despite the fact that she listens to music that constantly says the word, and watches comedians that also constantly use the word. Even our family uses the word in the exact same context. Maybe it just caught her off guard that a cartoon would use the word. Either way I didn't actually stop, I just watched the show in my room.

MoralGuardians stepped in at This Tropette's school when word leaked out that my English class was to read TheAdventuresOfHuckleberryFinn and later have class discussions on it. Us kids were well aware of the content, and had taken a vote-- we wanted the un-{{Bowdlerised}} un-PoliticallyCorrectHistory version. However, some parents protested. What did we do? We all got the original version from the library and read it anyway. Then, when it was class discussion time, much to the bewilderment of our teacher, we discussed ''it.'' The subject of censorship came up, of course, and once again, word leaked out. It ended in a few of the MoralGuardians grounding their kids, but hey, ''we still won.''

Averted with my mom. She even lets me watch SouthPark.

I have a cousin about to go into fifth grade who can't watch TotalDramaIsland, 6teen, or Stoked. Fair enough, I guess. He's also not allowed to watch AvatarTheLastAirbender. Yet, he's allowed to see movies like Super 8, Avatar, and even freakin' Robocop!

Living in lovely, Mormon-infested Utah was hard for me as a kid since I was always the only one who wasn't Mormon, to put it simply. I got in arguments with other kids all the time in 7th and 8th grade over things like gay marriage, abortion, environmentalism, etc (I was very interested in politics from a young age and heavily influenced by my strongly democratic family). My 8th grade science teacher even banned us from watching Obama's inauguration (which was going on during that class) just because she didn't support his politics. I was sufficiently pissed off.

To MoralGuardians, bitch.

Chicago.

To War.

To war, to war, to war we're gonna go\\ Oh hi-de-hi-de-hi-de-hi-de-hi-de-hi-de-ho.

I'm goin' to Disney World!

Wherever the wind takes me

To Rapture, where the artist does not fear the censor.

To find some more people who dislike Moral Guardians.

To one of the alternatives!

See you in Pittsburgh...

To HighOctaneNightmareFuel.

To kick you.

To City}} Basin City. I hear it's lovely this time of year.

Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, it's off to war we go, with hand grenades and razor blades, heigh-ho heigh-ho heigh-ho!

So long, Mom, I'm off to drop the bomb!

Is it an "F Bomb"? If so, take me with you!

Elsewhere. I have a Dam Problem I need to deal with.

Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see!

Where WE'RE going, we don't need roads