FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. -Now what kind of sense does this make?

Throughout the nation, the education establishment has been fighting tooth and nail against anything remotely connected with violence in schools.

They hate the idea of arming staff to protect students, and some teachers and administrators don’t even want trained armed guards in their hallways. Schools expelling children for pretending their hands are guns, or chewing cookies into shapes of guns.

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They say they have “zero tolerance” for weapons or violence, which is probably understandable in the wake of the Newtown shootings and other acts of violence on various campuses.

But now the principal of Farmington High School is rejecting parental complaints about an upcoming school play based on Stephen King’s 1970s horror novel “Carrie.”

If you haven’t read the book or watched the original movie or its sequel, here’s the plot in a nutshell: a lonely outcast high school girl (Carrie White) is grossly mistreated by her classmates, who do not realize she has special mental powers to move objects and make things happen to people.

Toward the end of the story, a popular boy feels bad for Carrie and asks her to the prom. The two of them are elected king and queen of the prom, momentarily suggesting a happy ending, like the recent television commercial where the student afflicted by Down’s Syndrome is elected queen of the prom.

But then some delinquent students carry out a plan to have a barrel of pig blood pour from the rafters onto Carrie’s head as she stands on stage.

In her rage, the girl unleashes her powers, setting the school on fire and killing many of her classmates.

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Does Farmington High School really need to produce such a play in the wake of all the campus violence occurring in real life? Some parents reportedly expressed their concern, but the school is refusing to back down.

School administrators say the plot is a good lesson in bullying and its impact.

“It pushes the notion of anti-bullying through a fantastical lens,” school Principal Joe Greene was quoted as saying in an article published by the Kansas City Star. “It’s a look at difficult topics and engages people into thinking about it.”

Huh?

Do school leaders want to send the message that it’s wrong to bully outcasts because they might turn violent and harm others, and not because it’s simply wrong to bully people? Do they want to send the message to those that are bullied that it’s okay to take revenge in violent ways?

Those are the messages conveyed by the plot of “Carrie.”

Have school officials asked themselves if it’s really in good taste to produce a play in which all sorts of students are snuffed out in a massive act of violence? Why don’t they just write a script about the massacre at Columbine High School and put that on stage? The killers at Columbine were victims of bullying, according to most news reports, but nobody believes they were justified in their actions.

A lot of people across the nation have been dealing with a lot of pain and grief – not to mention fear – in the wake of Sandy Hook and all the other school shootings. It’s insensitive for this school to put something on stage that approximates those real-life horrors, and try to pass it off as entertainment or some sort of lesson.

Stephen King wrote “Carrie” as a horror novel, written to scare the heck out of people, pure and simple.

The nation has been scared enough by campus murders in recent months and years. This was a bad choice of a play to produce, at a very bad time.