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| Ablang |
 Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2004 9:45 pm |
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http://www.zap2it.com/movies/news/story/0,1259,---20740,00.html
This guy made at least three mistakes:
(1) He showed a religious movie to a public school class;
(2) He showed an X-rated movie to sixth-graders;
(3) He showed a bootleg copy of a movie.
I don't care what his religion or his politics are; he doesn't have the
judgment to teach in public school.
Theophylact
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"I don't condone the behavior that I've had over the past year. I don't
think there's an excuse. I just think sometimes you have wild spells, and
you learn from that. But the things that I did weren't very cool. I just
wanted to put that out there."
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| Doug Crooks |
| Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 7:17 am |
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Did the MPAA re-classify The Passion of the Christ in the last couple
days as X? I didn't see that on the news, and I know that the print of
the film I've seen is R, so I'm just wondering if you're just trying to
overstate your point.
That being said, as a middle school teacher I agree that this teacher is
a moron. In our district, we can only play 'G' rated movies: anything
else and we're required to send home permission slips (i.e. for PG,
etc). The religious thing is a valid argument, but it depends on how
the teacher can explain why he showed the movie. If he did it as a
teaching tool for historical reasons (i.e, in the Roman culture of the
early first century, this is how they punished insurgents to send a
message to others). However, it would have to be edited down from an R
(at least in my district).
Of course, it's all a moot point since he showed a freaking unauthorized
clip of the movie. THAT is dumb dumb dumb. It sounds like this teacher
definitely executed his plan very very poorly, no matter what his
intentions.
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doug
Ablang wrote:
Quote: http://www.zap2it.com/movies/news/story/0,1259,---20740,00.html
This guy made at least three mistakes:
(1) He showed a religious movie to a public school class;
(2) He showed an X-rated movie to sixth-graders;
(3) He showed a bootleg copy of a movie.
I don't care what his religion or his politics are; he doesn't have the
judgment to teach in public school.
Theophylact
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| John Harkness |
| Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 7:38 am |
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On Sun, 07 Mar 2004 20:17:44 -0800, Doug Crooks <perc2100@hotmail.com>
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Quote: Did the MPAA re-classify The Passion of the Christ in the last couple
days as X? I didn't see that on the news, and I know that the print of
the film I've seen is R, so I'm just wondering if you're just trying to
overstate your point.
The MPAA doesn't have an X rating.
John Harkness |
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| Doug Crooks |
| Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 7:54 am |
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My point exactly 
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doug
John Harkness wrote:
Quote: On Sun, 07 Mar 2004 20:17:44 -0800, Doug Crooks <perc2100@hotmail.com
wrote:
Did the MPAA re-classify The Passion of the Christ in the last couple
days as X? I didn't see that on the news, and I know that the print of
the film I've seen is R, so I'm just wondering if you're just trying to
overstate your point.
The MPAA doesn't have an X rating.
John Harkness |
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| The Gunslinger |
| Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 8:14 am |
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Ablang wrote:
Quote: I don't care what his religion or his politics are; he doesn't have
the judgment to teach in public school.
Theophylact
On the contrary, incompetence is THE requirement for teaching at public
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| Buckaroo Banzai |
| Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 9:49 am |
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"Doug Crooks" <perc2100@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:404BFC9B.4090104@hotmail.com...
Quote: My point exactly
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doug
John Harkness wrote:
On Sun, 07 Mar 2004 20:17:44 -0800, Doug Crooks <perc2100@hotmail.com
wrote:
Did the MPAA re-classify The Passion of the Christ in the last couple
days as X? I didn't see that on the news, and I know that the print of
the film I've seen is R, so I'm just wondering if you're just trying to
overstate your point.
The MPAA doesn't have an X rating.
Unless I've bumped my head or something, the MPAA does indeed have an
X-rating and a couple of movies in the late 60's early 70's got stuck with
that rating. |
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| Buckaroo Banzai |
| Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 9:49 am |
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"The Gunslinger" <guns_n_ammo@darktower.com> wrote in message
news:ljT2c.86825$C65.42787@nwrddc01.gnilink.net...
Quote: Ablang wrote:
I don't care what his religion or his politics are; he doesn't have
the judgment to teach in public school.
Theophylact
On the contrary, incompetence is THE requirement for teaching at public
schools.
Especially a classroom full of Hobbit students, right? |
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| John Harkness |
| Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 1:08 pm |
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On Mon, 08 Mar 2004 06:49:13 GMT, "Buckaroo Banzai"
<blackhole34@yahoo.com> wrote:
Quote:
"Doug Crooks" <perc2100@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:404BFC9B.4090104@hotmail.com...
My point exactly
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doug
John Harkness wrote:
On Sun, 07 Mar 2004 20:17:44 -0800, Doug Crooks <perc2100@hotmail.com
wrote:
Did the MPAA re-classify The Passion of the Christ in the last couple
days as X? I didn't see that on the news, and I know that the print of
the film I've seen is R, so I'm just wondering if you're just trying to
overstate your point.
The MPAA doesn't have an X rating.
Unless I've bumped my head or something, the MPAA does indeed have an
X-rating and a couple of movies in the late 60's early 70's got stuck with
that rating.
And the MPAA retired it back around -- when was Henry And June, anyway
-- it was the first NC17 movie.
John Harkness |
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| Richard |
| Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 5:39 pm |
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John Harkness <jhXaYrknessZ@sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:<dgho40hbtm35q1mpm3ahv6vr8rd9h3l4u8@4ax.com>...
Quote: On Mon, 08 Mar 2004 06:49:13 GMT, "Buckaroo Banzai"
blackhole34@yahoo.com> wrote:
"Doug Crooks" <perc2100@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:404BFC9B.4090104@hotmail.com...
My point exactly
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doug
John Harkness wrote:
On Sun, 07 Mar 2004 20:17:44 -0800, Doug Crooks <perc2100@hotmail.com
wrote:
Did the MPAA re-classify The Passion of the Christ in the last couple
days as X? I didn't see that on the news, and I know that the print of
the film I've seen is R, so I'm just wondering if you're just trying to
overstate your point.
The MPAA doesn't have an X rating.
Unless I've bumped my head or something, the MPAA does indeed have an
X-rating and a couple of movies in the late 60's early 70's got stuck with
that rating.
And the MPAA retired it back around -- when was Henry And June, anyway
-- it was the first NC17 movie.
John Harkness
Who cares? The result is the same as with an "X." Vastly reduced distribution
because mainstream distributing companies will not distribute NC-17 movies.
-Rich |
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| Don W. McCollough |
| Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2004 12:37 pm |
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Doug Crooks <perc2100@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<404BF3E8.4000802@hotmail.com>...
Quote: Did the MPAA re-classify The Passion of the Christ in the last couple
days as X? I didn't see that on the news, and I know that the print of
the film I've seen is R, so I'm just wondering if you're just trying to
overstate your point.
That being said, as a middle school teacher I agree that this teacher is
a moron. In our district, we can only play 'G' rated movies: anything
else and we're required to send home permission slips (i.e. for PG,
etc). The religious thing is a valid argument, but it depends on how
the teacher can explain why he showed the movie. If he did it as a
teaching tool for historical reasons (i.e, in the Roman culture of the
early first century, this is how they punished insurgents to send a
message to others). However, it would have to be edited down from an R
(at least in my district).
Of course, it's all a moot point since he showed a freaking unauthorized
clip of the movie. THAT is dumb dumb dumb. It sounds like this teacher
definitely executed his plan very very poorly, no matter what his
intentions.
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Absolutely. This teacher should have waited for The Simpsons gang to
do a parody of The Passion...and then shown it to the kids.
What an idiot! :-)
Quote: doug
Ablang wrote:
http://www.zap2it.com/movies/news/story/0,1259,---20740,00.html
This guy made at least three mistakes:
(1) He showed a religious movie to a public school class;
(2) He showed an X-rated movie to sixth-graders;
(3) He showed a bootleg copy of a movie.
I don't care what his religion or his politics are; he doesn't have the
judgment to teach in public school.
Theophylact
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