Oct 20 2007
The Simpson’s Movie gets teacher fired
A Connecticut substitute teacher was fired for airing The Simpson’s Movie to his classes. The catch is, his classes were 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders. I’m all for free speech, but this was a dumb-ass move. I’m opposed to the movie ratings system philosophically, but practically as a parent, I can see me using it as a quick gauge for whether the material is appropriate for my kids. The Simpson’s Movie is rated PG-13 and I can’t see one thing educational, apart from an animation or film course (which wouldn’t be in the curriculum of elementary schools), that would necessitate airing this to 3rd graders. A local news station in Boston had the story:
School officials said they had warned 30-year-old Aquil Abdul-Salaam that the PG-13 rated film isn’t appropriate for children.
Officials said Abdul-Salaam admitted showing the movie to students at Beecher School between mid-September and Oct. 4. Beecher School is for children in grades kindergarten through seventh grade.
Sadcox has been commenting on the sad state of our public education for some time, and unfortunately this is just another sad example of how low our education standards are in this country. Thank you Mr. Connecticut fucktard for perpetuating our poor education standards.
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Uhhhh.. Maybe its not the PG-13 rating that’s the problem. The movie is still in theaters. It is not available on DVD.. So he was showing a bootleg (illegal copy) version.
The bootleg piece of this is significant but secondary to the content issue, it just hightlights how much of a dumb-ass this guy really was… good point.
Aguing which is worse, that it’s bootlegged or the content of the film, is rather moot. Both are adequate for dismissal.
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Reminds me of a teacher from a vo-tech in PA that showed “Roadhouse” to his shop class during a lull before the Christmas Holidays. Maybe some of the kids aspired to be bouncers?
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what a way to go. kinda dumb way to through a carrer away. However i still see no problem with showing the students this, after all the movie is aimed at them.