Comments on: "Brokeback" School Viewing Draws Lawsuit

Suit Claims 12-Year-Old Suffered Psychological Distress After Watching R-Rated Film In Class

[phoenix1218]

School districts have policys and curriculum for family life education. Parents can preview the material before they give conscent for their children to take the class. Schools leave everything but the basics to the parents to decide what is appropriate for their child. This teacher was just way out of line. If she wanted to show a video, every school has a library of acceptable ones on educational topics.
Posted by httpwwwnews

Schools leaving it up to parents to decide wether or not they want their child participating is not always the case. Some parents fought and lost a fight about their kids reading a book about 2 male penguins raising another penguin or another case about two kings getting married.

[phoenix1218]

...education begins at HOME,...the reason our schools are such a mess is because...parents do NOT do their jobs at home. But here...the Grandfather IS doing his job...and the school system is fighting him...What a bunch of HYPOCRITES!!! We parents get 5 or 6 short years to instill some values into our kids; and the schools get 12+ years to UNDO the values we've tried to teach them by hiring sociopaths with suitcases full of "issues" that they can't get another rational adult to listen to..but gain a captive audience..our CHILDREN.
Posted by Grandmaboobo

I agree with you. The school system is always saying that the parents need to take a more active role in educating their children yet when we do they slam us for it. I am very involved with my sons schooling and the teacher has commented that my husband and I are great about calling or sending in notes and she is also quick to tell us that she thinks we are doing a good job with our son. Parents these days need to be the parents and stop being their kids friends. This teacher should be fired for what she showed. I had a teacher in HS (GOD rest his soul) that showed the movie FEAR with Mark Wahlberg and Reese Witherspoon. There was a part he fast forwarded through but realistically he should have received permission first to show it. Other than that he was an excellant teacher. But there is a slight difference, we were in HS, these kids were 11-12 years old. BIG difference.

[phoenix1218]

If this was any other movie that had a HETEROsexual couple doing it, this wouldn't be nearly the issue, would it? It all goes back to bigotry-plain and simple. Posted by butseriously

I would not want my child watching a R rated film, I would not want my child watching a movie abuot h0m05exuality but I would also not want them watching a movie were there is an illicit affair going on wether or not it is straight or g@y.

[funkiwiteboy]

I believe homosexuality is a sin

[funkiwiteboy]

I beleive that homosexuality is a sin

[processor2]

TYPICAL

Wacko liberals will defend showing a movie (about a couple of ****'s) to a group of 12 year-olds, under the excuse of "academic freedom".

But if the movie had been about Jesus Christ, howls of protest and censorship would be heard from the very same Wacko left-wingers.

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TYPICAL

[jmagarotz]

Liberals believe in being open minded and tolerant. We're not stupid.
Posted by lhwrites at 07:31 PM : May 14, 2007

My experience has with liberals has been that you are tolerant and open minded,,, as long as I agree with your point of view.
You liberals insist your way is the only way and that I must conform to your rules or you're going to "Ram it down my throat"! Wrong, if you don't like my point of view I don't care, go live your life, your stupidity shows when you want to force the rest of us to live under "your rules"!
If you would just "Live and let live" we would all get along much better and the USA will be a nicer place to live. Unfortunately that's not going to happen for a long time. Is it?

[crystalblue3]

Personally, my issue isn't with the movie itself but with the R' rating. That teacher shouldn't have shown that movie to 12 year olds period. Doesn't really have anything to do with the type of ***. *** PERIOD is the issue. R' rating PERIOD is the issue. I would feel the same way if she had shown Texas Chainsaw Massacre to them.

What I want to know is what was that stupid woman thinking when she showed it? What was her motivation? What's wrong with Charlotte's Web??

I think she needs to be fired. Absolutely.

[itwasntme000]

If this was any other movie that had a HETEROsexual couple doing it, this wouldn't be nearly the issue, would it? It all goes back to bigotry-plain and simple.
Posted by butseriously at 06:55 PM : May 14, 2007

dammm skippy. and rightly so. But this is not bigotry, this is the natural order of things. Homosexuality is a disease, a disease that hinders an animal from perpetuating the species. They are outcasts thru and thru.

[grandmaboobo]

Grandpa should have sued for 500,000,000. I won't even address the Christian or moral principles that were violated here; the point is that this arrogant child abusing teacher blatently broke the LAW! No parent in America can say..what happens in this house, stays in this house and expect that to save them from prosecution. Yet we have teachers, who RIGHTLY comment that parents expect them to do OUR jobs, and then wonder why kids end up bringing guns to school. You cannot HAVE your cake and eat it too! I agree whole heartedly that education begins at HOME, and most of the reason our schools are such a mess is because so many parents do NOT do their jobs at home. But here we have a case where the Grandfather IS doing his job at home..and the school system is fighting him tooth and nail for it! What a bunch of HYPOCRITES!!! We parents get 5 or 6 short years to instill some values into our kids; and the schools get 12+ years to UNDO the values we've tried to teach them by hiring sociopaths with suitcases full of "issues" that they can't get another rational adult to listen to..but gain a captive audience..our CHILDREN.
I AM a grandmother raising 2 young grandchildren, and a Christian; but I can assure you that MY reaction, had this been done to MY granddaughter would have been MUCH stronger than Mr. Richardson's. That teacher would have found herself with a 2ft long *** toy implanted in her anatomy and then we'd see how much she wanted to continue to glorify the act!