When you don’t know how to teach.. show movies.
Well, unfortunately, when a school needs a substitute teacher, they have to take what they can get and hope for the best.
In my adventures, it was amazing that at times I'd be left with PG13 or even raunchier movies to show instead of having lesson plans. I always had some movies with me just in case. Only G, clean cut for grade 6 or less. Nothing raunchier than PG for grade 7 or older. All of them with the precedent of having been shown in other city schools. I had some clean culturally appreciated movies with me at all times.
Don't blame the substitute for this, unless she brought the movie and showed that instead of a tamer one which was provided or instead of implementing a lesson plan. But showing a movie? That's TOTALLY on the principal, and shouldn't be allowed unless it's in coordination with a substitute who was left with no plans and no access to material.
This is not an opinion...been there, done that, knew the rules for avoiding this kind of controversy.
Foreign movies are a great way to help learn a new language. It’s one thing to learn how to read and write or to translate a slow spoken question in a class setting, its another to listen and translate from a native speaker. She should have chose Pan’s Labrynth, or any number of Spanish language films that are fantastic.