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A history teacher at Westside Middle School decided to play the a few minutes of the R-rated movie "300" in class. A parent was upset because the movie had "prolonged scenes of female nudity, sex acts, lesbian and homosexual content."
The school administration reported that the clip that was shown had no profanity, no nudity, no violence." Here is the link: Link
Is it appropriate to show a movie like "300" to middle school kids as long as you don't show the profanity, nudity and violence?

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- 8/24/2007 6:31 PM
- GrundlingGoomba (message)
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wait but waht did the administartion say abotu teh homosexual content?
- 8/24/2007 6:32 PM
- GrundlingGoomba (message)
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the parent should be more upset that they showed that shitty movie like it was actually history.
- 8/24/2007 6:32 PM
- AristotleForDummies (message)
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I don't see why not.
- 8/24/2007 6:33 PM
- red_rabbits_laz0rkxz (message)
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You should consent the parents first.
I don't see why not though.
- 8/24/2007 6:33 PM
- somthingsgottagive (message)
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Or they should have rather.
- 8/24/2007 6:34 PM
- somthingsgottagive (message)
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i guess since it was censored, it was reasonable to show it. why anyone would actually want to watch it all is beyond me...
- 8/24/2007 6:34 PM
- alynn89 (message)
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hey cool I got first

yay me
- 8/24/2007 6:35 PM
- GrundlingGoomba (message)
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sure. but were's the fun in that?
- 8/24/2007 6:35 PM
- everybody_do_thebender (message)
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I just enjoyed that movie for the harem. Gives a man something to aspire to. If you know what I mean.

And I think frankly the parent was probably one of those nutso religious douchebags who thinks restricting anything fun and entertaining is the way to holiness.
- 8/24/2007 6:35 PM
- Drakonskyr (message)
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It's not only ok to show the full movie with profanity, homosexuality, nudity and violence, in fact, it should be a required part of the curriculum. How will the fledgelings learn how to cope with the real world otherwise, which is loaded with profanity, homosexuality, nudity and violence? And where better to do so than in a supervised enviroment?
- 8/24/2007 6:37 PM
- erykp (message)
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I don't really think that's good fare for that particular audience in a public school setting. For one thing the film was 90% fantasy. I don't see the educational value in it.
- 8/24/2007 6:37 PM
- UR_MUSE (message)
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It's inappropriate not to show the nudity.
- 8/24/2007 6:39 PM
- Yohsiph (message)
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The contempt that you puritan assholes have for the naked body never ceases to amaze me.
- 8/24/2007 6:39 PM
- Yohsiph (message)
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"For one thing the film was 90% fantasy. I don't see the educational value in it. "~Ur_Muse

While it's true that much of the movie was pure hollywood, what the movie does depict in truth is how successful the Spartans were in cultivating a race of nearly invincible warriors.
- 8/24/2007 6:42 PM
- Yohsiph (message)
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Its an iffy topic. Personally I enjoyed the film, but I'm not sure there is very much academic material in that film to warrant showing it in a school, beyond the ever-popular "don't let your hunchbacks go to war".
- 8/24/2007 6:43 PM
- bluemarsupial (message)
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"decided to play the a few minutes of"

care to clarify? =)
- 8/24/2007 6:45 PM
- alynn89 (message)
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the biggest problem is probably kids coming home and wanting to watch it, though i dont personally see a problem with it
- 8/24/2007 6:46 PM
- DiosDePyro (message)
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For educational purposes. Though it wouldn't hurt to send a permission slip home, for gosh sake's!
- 8/24/2007 6:51 PM
- Imp_is_lurking (message)
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of course
- 8/24/2007 6:54 PM
- B_Gray (message)
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I had to sign a permission slip for my child to watch the movie Ghandi in middle school. If there was some pertinent reason to be showing excerpts of that movie in class, permission slips should have been required.
- 8/24/2007 6:56 PM
- saintvi (message)
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yeah... we saw parts of "gladiator" in middle school ( i think 7th grade & because what we were doing in class, pertained to the movie) and we had to get a permission slip signed by our parents.
- 8/24/2007 6:57 PM
- juStxwondering (message)
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I see no problem with showing a clip that has no problem issues in it. Then again, students at a certain religious university I attended nearly rioted when a professor suggested in chapel that they could benefit from watching certain R rated movies and showed similar clips from those movies.
- 8/24/2007 6:58 PM
- B_Marclar (message)
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I showed a clip of "Saving Private Ryan" and a clip from "Band of Brothers" to my Senior High Sunday School class.

No violence, or nudity, though.
- 8/24/2007 7:03 PM
- RagamuffinKing (message)
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And how did the parent know all that stuff was in the film, huh?
- 8/24/2007 7:03 PM
- RagamuffinKing (message)
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