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My students are gifted visual artists at a commercial art high school in New York. 62% are considered underprivileged with free or reduced lunch. As the drama teacher, I have found my students, 9th-12th grades, to be incredibly talented in all areas of theatre arts. Despite increasing budget cuts in recent years that affected our productions and threatened our drama program, my students remained passionate, dedicated and determined to do theatre. They have greatly affected their audiences with their intense, passionate, raw performances, most recently with an original, dramatic production of DRACULA funded by a one-time grant from our local community. Our school has a sizable population of gay/lesbian/bisexual students. The older students have been proud of how accepting everyone has always been of each other. In the past two years, however, there has been a disturbing increase among younger students in the bullying and harassment of gay students and those perceived to be gay.

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My students are gifted visual artists at a commercial art high school in New York. 62% are considered underprivileged with free or reduced lunch. As the drama teacher, I have found my students, 9th-12th grades, to be incredibly talented in all areas of theatre arts. Despite increasing budget cuts in recent years that affected our productions and threatened our drama program, my students remained passionate, dedicated and determined to do theatre. They have greatly affected their audiences with their intense, passionate, raw performances, most recently with an original, dramatic production of DRACULA funded by a one-time grant from our local community. Our school has a sizable population of gay/lesbian/bisexual students. The older students have been proud of how accepting everyone has always been of each other. In the past two years, however, there has been a disturbing increase among younger students in the bullying and harassment of gay students and those perceived to be gay.

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