Posted on 06/23/2007 4:01:45 AM PDT by lowbridge
PEEKSKILL, N.Y. (AP) - He doesn't want to be an ogre about it, but the father of a fifth-grader thinks teachers are wasting time when they show movies in class - and if the film is a bootleg, he says, ''That's a really terrible lesson.''
Tim Trewhella, 46, said his 10-year-old daughter reported that her class watched the animated movie ''Shrek the Third'' on Tuesday and recognized it as the fairy-tale hit still showing in theaters.
''A friend hooked me up with it,'' teacher Lovell Quiroz said, according to the girl.
Peekskill schools Superintendent Judith Johnson issued a statement saying administrative approval is required before a video is shown in elementary school and ''if a pirated video was shown it is in violation of district policy.'' An investigation was under way, the statement said.
An attempt to meet with Quiroz at the school was foiled by a security guard who ordered a reporter off school property.
The Motion Picture Association of America says major American movie studios lost $6.1 billion to piracy in 2005, 20 percent of that in the U.S.
''I don't want to see the guy hung for this,'' Trewhella said. ''I would just like him to apologize.''
Trewhella also says that what really bothers him is how often teachers show non-educational videos in class, bootleg or not.
''I run a candy and toy store,'' said Trewhella. ''I completely understand about entertaining kids. But it has its time and place.''
He said going public ''might be making this unpleasant for the school district. But as a taxpayer and a parent, I don't want my dollars going for movies. It's the teacher's job to make the educational stuff interesting.''
While I understand some teachers might show more than their share of movies in class, I also can understand kids need some down time. Kids do need a break during the day. I’m more concerned why schools don’t have recess.
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shrek is a helluva lot better than an inconvenient truth...or emily has 2 mommies!!!
Copying is not stealing.
Copying can be wrong in its own way, but it is not the same definition as stealing.
Copying can be wrong in its own way, but it is not the same definition as stealing.
Guess you have never read any copyright laws have you.
This guy is busted and deserves what he gets, but I still admire the attitude of independence from groupthink.
I see the Father as a sniveling whining little poo butt.
Au contraire I figure he knows them very well.
Ah, so you see God the Father that way. Figures.
No cats in America, then what did I take care of yesterday at the shelter?
Thats the problem with school. Kids are expected to show up too early, and their school day is lengthened beyond reason.
When I went to High School, each class period was about 45 minutes, with five minutes in between periods to give the kids time to go from one classroom to the next. Now, we had math, science, history, and english. Fine. But then we were forced to take Gym (a holdover from the Kennedy administration as I understand it), two elective classes (over the years I took an art class, guitar playing, computer programming, photography, film criticism, etc), a 15 minute homeroom class (in which the teacher just took attendance), a foreign language class, and lunch.
If I had my way, I would have taken just the basics: Science, English, math, and history, and went home. (and would have scheduled my first class sometime later in the day instead of somewhere around 8am). But no, the damn school schedule forced me to get up in an ungodly hour in the morning five days a week and then stay there in the school building much longer than I wanted to or needed to.
Earlier, before High school, when I went to a Yeshiva school, the morning was dedicated to praying and religious studies. Then at noon one hour of lunch, then a half hour each of math, english, history, and science. One lucky kid got excused out of the morning religious instructions and prayers. Had some sort of medical excuse. He showed up after lunch only for the four basic classes in the afternoon. I envied him. Didnt have to wake up at an early hour. Didnt have to show up for class untill the afternoon, and then he had only to stay in school for those couple of hours. Did that for the entire three years I was at that school. I asked him why he couldnt or didnt show up for the morning religious class and prayers. He told me that he couldnt bear to sit still in class all morning long.
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No, the Father in the story, and quite possibly you as well.
Wow, a personal attack upon a poster within the first 13 postings. And over a discussion of a pirated Shrek movie.
So what, you just got that shiny new flame thrower and were tooling around Free Republic looking for a discussion to light up? I guess when all you have is a hammer, every thing starts to look like a nail.
Get real that is not a personal attack, the poster is advocating breaking the law.
And thats a bad thing? ;-)
What I would expect from a worshipper of Baal.
What is there to admire? The teacher was lazy. Real "independence from groupthink" would be to buck the trend toward mediocrity and actually teach something useful. Instead, he took the easy way out and showed a movie to pass the time.
I see the Father [sic] as a sniveling whining little poo butt.
Your statement says more about you than it does about the father in this story. He is looking out for the interests of his children and the taxpayers. Whose interests are you serving?
And instead of telling him why he was wrong, you brought up his education and discussed the outcome of its quality. IOW, the subject of your statement was him and his education, ergo personal attack.
So because I disagree with intellectual property laws I am sacrificing babies to demons?
Yikes, quite the leap there.
On the other hand, I teach my kids to question what the govt tells them, to be wary of the dangers that lay ahead.
My daughter just finished her first year of high school. Believe me when I tell you, she watched some kind of movie just about every day.
She watched “Lifetime” movies in English class, animated cartoons (Lady and the Tramp twice), and movies she’d come home and tell me I’d never approve of.
I emailed the principal about this and never even got a response.
I didn’t realize it was going on for the first 6 weeks or so, so next year, I will keep track by asking her every day. I’ll be calling teachers and asking them to explain the educational value of these stupid movies.
It’s no wonder the kids are graduating without being able to read.
These days it's getting harder and harder to find older virgins to sacrifice.
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