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]

so could I show a graph with a huge cock as the bar and it be ok?

[James]

so could I show a graph with a huge cock as the bar and it be ok?

The TEKS are not restrictions, they are requirements. That quote was in answer to Jonathan. Obviously, comparing a giant cock (porn) to Al Gore's movie (politics) is just ignorant. That being said, I'm sure you could find a way to do it indirectly. We got to see the cock and balls of Joe Camel's face when I was in high school *shrug*