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

[THECHICKEN]

I watched BASEketball in a history class before... so what?

Not every single class day is educational ... i know in every class we at least took ONE day off during the year. Should they be fired?... only if there was a stated policy against rated R and .... "political" movies.

Everyone bitches now a days about everything, calm down, the children won't have different lives because of a single movie shown in a class. Maybe Gore's movie intrests them into looking into the health of our earth ... OMG WHATS SHOULD WE DOO THE KID IS DAMAGED FOR LIFE!