R-Rated Movies Allowed In Class

[The Straight Story]

R-Rated Movies Allowed In Class


VIERA, Fla. -- Two Brevard public high school teachers won permission Tuesday night to show R-rated movies, including "The Last of the Mohicans," to students this year to reinforce lessons about the nation's history.

The School Board split 3-2 in voting to grant exceptions to the district's ban on R-rated movies, Local 6 News partner Florida Today reported.

It's the first exception the board has granted to the policy since 2002 when it allowed some teachers to show "Schindler's List," about the Holocaust.

The board's decision will permit Viera High teacher Dan Schuerer and Palm Bay High teacher Paul DeLorey to show students five R-rated films that feature reenactments of historical events.

Board member Amy Kneessy, who opposed the exceptions along with chairman Robert Jordan, said the movies were too violent to show in schools and opened the door for other teachers to request the use of R-rated films in the future.

http://www.local6.com/news/14306047/detail.html

[TlalocW]

1. What's the big deal?

We watched, "The Name of the Rose," in history class in high school. The teacher just fast-forwarded through the sex scene - or at least most of it. VCRs weren't as accurate back then as they are today.

TlalocW

[Poll_Blind]

2. Wow, what a great movie. Hell, I think _I_ saw that in High School too.

That's weird. I'm going to let it drop there.

PB

[Justyce]

3. That was an awesome movie,

with Daniel-Day Lewis. My daughter is in high school & has seen it. Not sure what the big deal is...

[backscatter712]

4. The mad mother brigade needs to get over it.

Your teens will survive R-rated movies without ill effects.

[RiverStone]

11. Thats for sure

Believe me, when one ponders all the things to worry about - having teens exposed to an R rated movie is not one of them. Most have seen far, far more via the internet, their XBox games, or at that teen party their parents did not know about.

Give them love, boundries, and a healthy dose of self-esteem! They need that a lot more then a stupid rule on R rated flicks.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

5. God forbid they read R-rated books.

[noamnety]

6. The disconnect in these stories always astounds me.

We need to protect our kids from images of a re-enactment of battles by actors.

Meanwhile, in those OTHER countries, we are shooting children's parents in front of their eyes.

If the things we do are too horrible to learn about, that should be a clue the public needs to learn about them.

[LSdemocrat]

7. This country would be a lot more sane if we uncensored the news

[RainDog]

8. let the parents decide

it's the same with sex education classes. if someone doesn't want his or her child to get information about sex education, the teachers work with parents to have any such child do something else during that class time. All the kids have to have a parent signature with the choice to opt out. The wording is more like ... we will be covering a section of class that deals with sexual education. if you do not want your child to participate, sign here. If you give permission, sign here. All parents I know wanted their kids to get basic anatomy lessons, understand how pregnancy occurs, etc. (and this was for kids in sixth grade here.) Since my kids have heard about sex info all their lives when they've asked, it was no big deal.

Now I have to say to them... you know, you don't have to tell me that... (they're both still virgins, btw) but they also know that when the moment comes that they are sexual active, they have to take responsibility for birth control, etc. ...and they're males.

Same thing now with movies. Parents have the same sort of information sheet and have to indicate one way or another. in my son's govt class, the teacher showed V for Vendetta to talk about anarchy. Since I've had the graphic novel for years, I invited him to read it when the movie came out but he wasn't interested. after the class, he bought a copy for himself. then we could talk about the comparisons between the two mediums, etc. call me crazy, but I really don't see anything wrong with this.

[freethought]

9. Last of the Mohicans?

I saw that film. I could understand that it is a period piece of film and is supposed to be representative of colonial America. Personally, I thought it was to show off Daniel Day Lewis with long hair and no shirt.
"Schindler's List" I could understand. I would have thought that one film would have been shown was "Saving Private Ryan".
Years and years ago there was an uproar in my hometown when some teachers wanted high school students (Juniors or Seniors) to watch "Helter Skelter", the film about the Manson family. At least back then that film was considered to be highly controversial.
IMHO I think that "Saving Private Ryan" should be shown or one of the following two-"Thirteen Days" or "The Missiles of October", both about the Cuban Missile Crisis.
I really don't have a problem with the showing of certain films to kids. Much of it depends on which film and what it is about. The maturity of the kids watching the films would have much to do with it as well.
I would be fine having my early teen child watch "Schindler's List" but I would be less than thrilled if a teacher showed them "Dude, Where's my Car". You get the idea.

[glowing]

10. Yes, history is much too violent... Its very hard to face the past and

what our country has done to innocent people's and continues to do.

[Lex]

12. This wasn't a 2nd grade class after all. High school kids are old

enough to see something like "Schindler's List" imho.

History shouldn't be sugar-coated.

They showed us actual film footage of the dead and starving in Nazi concentration camps when I was in high school. And of JFK's head blowing apart in Dallas. And I don't know what all else.

[Feron]

13. I guess Louisiana isn't so regressive after all...

In high school over ten years ago R rated movies were shown without issue. I remember watching "The Last of the Mohicans" and a version of "Romeo and Juliet" containing nudity. LOL

[Yavin4]

14. In A Couple of Years, Some Of Those Kids Will Be Fighting in Iraq

But they can't watch R-rated movies. What a country!

[IndianaJones]

15. next up...Caligula. nt.