Movies in the classroom Options

[impala454]

A couple of recent happenings spurred this topic. Curious what you guys think.

#1- http://www.khou.com/news/local/galveston/s...y.6f97d768.html
A teacher in a Clear Creek ISD high school showed Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" to her class. I heard this on the radio and one of the parents had called in, she said it was explained to her that the relevance of the movie to the ALGEBRA class it was shown in was the "charts & graphs" depicted in the movie. Pretty friggin pathetic if you ask me. There's no excuse for this kind of crap, and nothing to gain by it.

#2- http://www.kentucky.com/476/story/68870.html
A substitute teacher showed Brokeback Mountain to an 8th grade class.

The substitute asked a student to shut the classroom door at the West Side school, saying: "What happens in Ms. Buford's class stays in Ms. Buford's class," according to the lawsuit.

All I got to say is.. WTF

[impala454]

James (jessica stuck a damn post in between)
So you really believe that showing Al Gore's politically controversial movie with graphs was the teacher wanting to teach Algebra and not sway the kids views in that way? The article shows the district's policies the teacher violated:

Teachers are not supposed to use the classroom to transmit personal or political beliefs, both sides of controversial subjects are supposed to be discussed, movies should have educational purposes only, as approved by the school’s principal, and parents must give consent for any movie rated PG, PG-13 or R.

And as far as brokeback mountain, never seen it myself either, but it is a rated R movie centered around homosexuals. I would be pretty outraged if this was shown to my kid in 8th grade with no consent, by a substitute teacher no less.

[Mommy]

James (jessica stuck a damn post in between)

quit your bitchin, boy

[impala454]

quit your bitchin, boy

who you callin "boy"

i was playin super mario before you were born lil girl