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'Brokeback' School Viewing Draws Lawsuit
WJZ.COM ^ | 14 MAY 2007 | CBS

Posted on 05/14/2007 5:18:53 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist

(CBS News) CHICAGO -- A girl and her grandparents have sued the Chicago Board of Education, alleging that a substitute teacher showed the R-rated film "Brokeback Mountain" in class.

The lawsuit claims that Jessica Turner, 12, suffered psychological distress after viewing the movie in her class at Ashburn Community Elementary School last year.

According to the lawsuit, the substitute teacher in Turner's eighth-grade class last May was Mary Buford, the Chicago Tribune reported. Allegedly, Buford told the class, "What happens in Ms. Buford's class stays in Ms. Buford's class" and had a student close the door, the newspaper reported.

The film, which won three Oscars, depicts two cowboys who conceal their homosexual affair.

Turner and her grandparents, Kenneth and LaVerne Richardson, are seeking around $500,000 in damages.

"It is very important to me that my children not be exposed to this," said Kenneth Richardson, Turner's guardian. "The teacher knew she was not supposed to do this."

According to the lawsuit filed Friday in Cook County Circuit Court, the video was shown without permission from the students' parents and guardians. Richardson had previously complained to school officials about reading material he said contained curse words.

"This was the last straw," he said. "I feel the lawsuit was necessary because of the warning I had already given them on the literature they were giving out to children to read."

Richardson said his granddaughter was traumatized after watching the film, telling him that "They made me watch this bad movie." He went to the school to speak to Buford, Richardson told the Tribune, but she refused to do so without her union representative.

Messages left over the weekend with school district officials were not immediately returned.


TOPICS: Education
KEYWORDS: brainwashing; childabuse; homoindoctrination; homosexualagenda

1 posted on 05/14/2007 5:18:55 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Wouldn’t 50 charges of contributing to the delinquency of a child, as well as revoking her teaching certificate be sufficient?

For $500K, this is little more than someone thinking that they have won the lottery.


2 posted on 05/14/2007 5:27:50 PM PDT by Hodar (With Rights, come Responsibilities. Don't assume one, without assuming the other.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
suffered psychological distress after viewing the movie

Is that a new term for "total boredom"?

3 posted on 05/14/2007 5:28:29 PM PDT by Darkwolf377 (Anti-socialist Bostonian, Anti-Illegal Immigration Bush supporter, Pro-Life Atheist)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

12 year old - R rated movie - should have never happened


4 posted on 05/14/2007 5:39:39 PM PDT by svcw (There is no plan B.)
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To: svcw

Exactly!

It’s against the law:

“12 year old - R rated movie - should have never happened.”

No parental consent involved. Sub is way out of line.


5 posted on 05/14/2007 5:48:14 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
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To: Hodar

Maybe she’ll donate it to a good Christian Rights group.


6 posted on 05/14/2007 6:28:42 PM PDT by USMCWife6869 (Godspeed Sand Sharks.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Finally.

I like all these more conservative organizations that provide legal support in situations like this, but they never have any teeth when they win.

They end up suing over and over for the same thing, one classroom at a time. It’s frustrating to watch.

THIS will finally get someones attention.


7 posted on 05/14/2007 6:38:57 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I didn’t see the movie, but I’d probably be traumatized too. :-)


8 posted on 05/14/2007 7:53:01 PM PDT by Thrownatbirth (.....when the sidewalks are safe for the little guy.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
I wouldn't go to see a movie with a couple of hayhead cowboys having a sexual affair any more than I'd spend good money to see the Chicago Bears play the Twelve Apostles.

(.....well, on second thought the latter might be quite entertaining now that I think about it)

Leni

9 posted on 05/14/2007 8:01:50 PM PDT by MinuteGal
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Does anyone need any more evidence that public schools are not the place to educate your children? Kids are very impressionable. That's why in the "olden days" teachers had to have high moral character as well as academic credentials. Exposing children to homosexual propaganda (and other like stuff) can seriously damage kids.

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10 posted on 05/14/2007 8:09:05 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Only those who thirst for the truth will know the truth.)
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To: Hodar

In most states you do not have to have a teaching certificate to be a sub.


11 posted on 05/15/2007 7:45:19 AM PDT by the lastbestlady (I now believe that we have two lives; the life we learn with and the life we live with after that.)
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To: the lastbestlady

“In most states you do not have to have a teaching certificate to be a sub”.....(homo sub with an agenda.)


12 posted on 05/15/2007 10:32:54 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Do Sub’s even belong to the union?

D-


13 posted on 05/16/2007 7:59:35 AM PDT by D521646
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