Teacher convicted of showing high school class violent movie

AP via Yahoo News ^ | 1-16-15 | AP/Yahoo

[IndispensableDestiny]

I don't know anything about "The ABCs of Death." But in 1977, my high school English class (British Literature) went to a movie theater to watch Roman Polanski's "MacBeth". We we joined by kids from other nearby schools.

If you haven't seen it, you should. It's true to the play, plenty of violence and nudity. It was the first movie Polanski directed after Sharon Tate was murdered by the Mansons.

[GeronL]

Some elementary schools have showed movies like “Frozen” and “Lion King” and “Bambi”... all of these are pretty violent

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

Sounds like the movies they show in Drivers Ed to discourage kids from speeding. “Signal 30” was the one used in my school.

[Clara Lou]

Yoo hoo! Words have meaning. You did notice that I used the qualifier “in general,” correct? That means that I am a speaking of many, but not all, substitutes with whom I had experience.

I taught, by the way, for 22 years in a school district where 60+% of students were receiving either free or reduced price lunches— basically an inner city school district in the suburbs.

[Clara Lou]

I’m in Texas. And what you suggest might not happen so very often. With TAAKS and now STAAR testing, no principal wants to risk his/her career by hiring someone who can’t/doesn’t teach and meet responsibilities. That’s not to say bad apples don’t get hired, though.

[grania]

FWIW. Where I was inner city substituting in general when the principals were on top of things the substitutes who were at those schools were very high caliber, many of us much more qualified than the teachers. Also at those schools teachers who did not leave adequate plans and teach their students how to behave when there was a guest in their room were held accountable.

I had 30 years as a regular class room teacher, tutored for several years and taught across the economic and societal spectrum.

[Clara Lou]

Do you want to go back and read ALL of my words to understand what I was saying? Or do you regularly read, instantaneously misinterpret, and fly off the handle?