...all students in the school system where I teach have to get a permission slip signed to watch ANY movie clip we plan to show, even Disney flicks. Some fool left this movie for a substitute teacher to show to his/her students on the same day the superintendent showed up unannounced to drop in on classrooms. That disturbing sex scene mentioned in another post? THAT'S what he got to watch with students. Some people.
shareWell the sub was really stupid for putting it in the player no matter how much the kids tried to get her to do it. She could have done research quickly on her or any of the students phones that had internet (assuming this story takes place w/i the last 2 or 3 years). And isn't this rated R? And if she knows anything about Othello she should know that a modern adaptation wouldn't be for school.
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When I was in high school, my English class watched my copy of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (Robert DiNiro, Kennith Brannaugh, Helena Bonham Carter) and that movie had sex, body part loppings, a violent hanging, and a heart being ripped out of a body and we all survived.
shareI convinced my science teacher when I was in 8th grade to show Night at the Roxbury. There were inappropriate scenes in it I had forgotten and we also survived. In this day and age most have seen sex scenes by age 13. May not be good to show in school but nothing most kids haven't seen before.
"I'm not bad I'm just drawn that way." Jessica Rabbit
I edited all the violent scenes from Braveheart into one continuous orgy of violence. Forgot how i justified it. Some English project back in grade school.
shareOur history teacher played us Born on the Fourth of July - it's got a few sex-with-prostitutes and other inappropriate scenes. Whenever nudity came up he would jump in front of the screen wave his arms and yell "yahh, monsters, look away!" Guy was hilarious :)
shareIt should be easy to edit R-rated movies down to PG-13 for school viewing, but the original versions should not be shown at school.
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