secondary school has scrapped a play deemed to be “sexualised” after a mum complained about the word “horny” being in the script.Pupils at Alec Hunter Academy in Braintree, Essex, were rehearsing for Sparkleshark, a play written by Philip Ridley about overcoming bullying, which is performed by numerous secondary schools around the country.
The play features characters aged 14 to 16 and follows a boy called Jake as he struggles to deal with school bullies. Yet one mum of a 12-year-old pupil said that she was disgusted after her daughter asked her what “horny” meant after apparently reading it in the play's script.