Principal stops screening of [Michael Moore] documentary for what he says is anti-war message

AP via Boston.com ^ | 04/05/2003

[GeneD]

LYNN, Mass. (AP) The principal of Lynn English High School stopped a teacher from showing the Oscar-winning documentary ''Bowling for Columbine,'' saying it was inappropriate because it contains anti-war messages.

English teacher Jeremy McKeen showed 17- and 18-year-old students the movie, which was directed and produced by Michael Moore and released well before the war in Iraq began. The movie has a strong anti-gun and anti-violence theme. While accepting this year's Oscar for Best Documentary, Moore expressed his disdain for President Bush and the war with Iraq.

[Jeff Chandler]

This is what passes for curriculum in English classes, which is why we homeschool.

[BenLurkin]

High schoool kids get enough left wing cr_p without watching this guy's Anti-American garbage.

[Commander8]

True, in theory schools are a place where ideas are exchanged. In reality, government schools are socialist training camps where only "politically correct" ideas are discussed.

[supercat]

Someone should produce a companion movie to Bowling for Columbine and use it, along with BFC, to teach students how movies and media can manipulate the truth.

[samtheman]

The producer is also an anti-war person as well.

The producer is also a leftist anti-American traitor scumbag.

[Burkeman1]

The principal of Lynn English High School stopped a teacher from showing the Oscar-winning documentary ''Bowling for Columbine,'' saying it was inappropriate because it contains anti-war messages.

The one question that should pop out to you is why a movie is being shown at all to high school students during class time (much less one that is produced by a far left ideolouge?) Doesn't that just speak volumes about the state of education in this country? But other than that question "Bowling for Columbine" is full of lies and deciets and should have been disqualified even for consideration of an Oscar under the Academy's own rules and definition of what constitutesa a documentary film. The film is a fiction from beginning to end.

[max_rpf]

The whole idea of "Opening their minds" by introducing them to hard-core liberal propaganda calls this teachers credentials into question. They do not belong in schools. Teachers should have to swear an oath not to play this game.

[Bullish]

The left basks in propaganda and misinformation.

The head of the english dept. thinks it's "wonderful".

No wonder kids are coming out of school hating America and its values.

[FreedomCalls]

"I don't know where the problem is. We are a school. This is a place where ideas are exchanged, right?"

Well, just assign them some American Nazi Party stuff to read, hand out some Ku Klux Klan brochures, and show them "Triumph of Will." What would be the problem? They are a school. It is a place where ideas are exchanged, right?

Yeah, right. Only if it is radical left-wing propaganda is it OK. Thank you NEA.

[WorkingClassFilth]

"It does have anti-violence and anti-war messages but he was using it to open up the minds of his senior students,'' she said. ''He stopped the movie and talked about
it. I don't know where the problem is. We are a school. This is a place where ideas are exchanged, right?"

I take it that this 'teacher' has previously shown Riefenstahl's 'Triumph of the Will' or D.W. Griffith's "Birth of a Nation'? Those films would certainly present messages and ideas that might open up minds of his students.

What profound liars these travelers are. Lie. Lie. Lie. English my *ss. Russian is more like it.

[ladylib]

Perhaps it would have been better if it was shown on "Current Events" day in history class.

I don't know what it has to do with English 101, however. English seems to be a catch-all subject today -- everything from sexual orientation to whatever.

Whatever happened to the Great Books?

[July 4th]

I don't know where the problem is. We are a school. This is a place where ideas are exchanged, right?

People always say things like this when there aren't any ideas actually being exchanged. They say it when one person is pushing some ideological piece of trash.

[Paul Atreides]

I wouldn't be a bit surprised if none of those kids had ever heard of Shakespeare.

[Arpege92]

I agree...Michael Moore made a movie with huge lies! The Oscar should be taken aways from him!

[O.C. - Old Cracker]

These queer-loving, tree-hugging, ballet-watching, Volvo-driving, Elton John-listening Marxists can't wait for our kids to get to college before they try to corrupt their minds. Someday, somewhere the father of a student is going to get his fill and lay a cudgel on the skull of one of these fifth columnists. Words of warning mean nothing to these rebellious mongrels.

[Zipporah]

..or maybe the catagory should be changed from documentary to fiction.

[doug from upland]

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Our fax number is...... (781) 477-7365

[O.C. - Old Cracker]

I wouldn't be a bit surprised if none of those kids had ever heard of Shakespeare.

Shakespeare?! Shakespeare?! That Eurocentric trash?! Now, if you want your kids to really learn something valuable, might I suggest a healthy dose of Afro-American studies? The study of our multicultural diversity is the key to a more sophisticated, better educated and more productive working class!

[Neever]

Precisely. I agree. English class is where you should be exposed to classic literature, not film.

I'm also amazed at how quickly these so-called teachers include works in the canon. You have to give a novel at least 50 years to see if it's going to survive before you make it required reading in a classroom setting. To that end, Toni Morrison should still be merely a curiosity.

I'm sure these kids barely know Shakespeare.