The musicals about our Constitution, Lewis and Clark, the Industrial Revolution, and more have been presented for 30 years at Marquez Charter Elementary in Pacific Palisades, but the current Los Angeles Unified School District contends they are "culturally insensitive," reports Breitbart. Now, they want to ban the plays for the 2026-2027 school year.
The school was only able to keep one play after community pushback, “Miracle in Philadelphia,” which is about the Constitutional Convention (featured right). However, the script had to be edited to be more politically correct. For example, a male suiter in the play could not call a female character a “cutie pie.”
Christian commentator Janice Crouse is a cultural analyst who is the author of “Children at Risk."
"The school district wants to do away with this method that's working so well. The comment was that it has to be more politically correct. They are putting political correctness ahead of what children need to learn in school,” says Crouse. “It's very painful to even read about things like this anymore because it's the students who are hurt.”
Crouse reports that the musicals have been so successful that Marquez Charter Elementary students consistently score off the charts in history assessments. An academic study in 2024 found that students of the school “scored more than twice as many items correctly (on history tests) as did students from other schools.”
"And yet, here come the school boards and the parents saying, ‘no, this is not appropriate for fifth graders’," states Crouse.
The creator of the musicals, Jeff Lantos, has offered to rewrite the scripts, but the district has not responded to his offer in over a year.
