[HiTech RedNeck]

What needs to be pointed out, this selfish act by this idiot teacher could have wrecked bonding experiences among parents and their children. I could manufacture a scenario where maybe a parent who did not have custody of their child was planning a special time to take the child to see this movie.

I suppose you could. But that's not the only famous kiddie movie in the movie houses. A good teacher could even have made a lesson out of this, by asking the students afterwards to consider and discuss about plot, dramatic moments, characters. Such a treatment might have made a second viewing of the film into an educational experience.

The really unredeemable thing here was for the teacher to do something (bootleg a copy) that had a student giggling "my teacher committed a crime."

[lowbridge]

I suppose you could. But that's not the only famous kiddie movie in the movie houses. A good teacher could even have made a lesson out of this, by asking the students afterwards to consider and discuss about plot, dramatic moments, characters. Such a treatment might have made a second viewing of the film into an educational experience.

When I took an elective film criticism class, I assumed that we would be doing just that. Sure, we watched a movie here and there, but they forced us to read (and write critiques of) shakespeare. I couldnt make heads or tails out of the "Ye Olde English" language of it. Didn't understand a word.