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Paige M.D.
Cliché Catastrophe
Age: 14
Gender: Female
Posts: 411 | April 30th, 2008 at 01:18am Okay, so a while back before spring break, we saw "Dodge ball" In my world history class because my teacher was away and my substitute let us watch it.
And there was so much sexual innuendo, I couldn't stand it. And I LOVE I mean LOVE sexual innuendo. And It was just too much for a middle school class room. [grade eight/year eight/14 year old's]
And then, today in my reading and writing classes, we watched transformers which had some cursing in it, and then there was this one part, where they ask him [the boy, Sam] if he was masturbating and they talk all about how they should call it, "Sam's happy alone time" or something, and like he wasn't...
But anyway, are these movies too inappropriate to show in class room full of immature teenagers? |
druscilla; nazareth.
Ghostwriter
Age: 21
Gender: Female
Posts: 17953 | April 30th, 2008 at 08:23am I don't think so. PG-13 means it's been deemed suitable for those thirteen years of age and older. |
Freddie Mercury.
Grammar Guru
Age: 68
Gender: Male
Posts: 5551 | April 30th, 2008 at 10:33am We watch M rated movies at school, sometimes. |
ChemicallyImbalanced
Wordsmith
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Posts: 10184 | April 30th, 2008 at 10:39am I think that as long as the rating is suitable they are allowed to show it to the kids. Some might be immature about it but it might just be that class. I think it's fine. |
Bells.
Fanfic Fanatic
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Posts: 1071 | April 30th, 2008 at 01:22pm I think that it all depends on the rating, really.
Our science teacher put Happy Tree Friends on on our last day of term. She was laughing her ass off and I was just like 
We got to watch Schindler's (sp?) List in social studies last year and we had to have permission to watch it, in case it offended our family history or something... |
Billy Corgan
Cliché Catastrophe
Age: 86
Gender: Female
Posts: 378 | April 30th, 2008 at 03:14pm We usually just take a note home saying, we are watching "insert movie here", if you have any objections, give us a call. |
druscilla; nazareth.
Ghostwriter
Age: 21
Gender: Female
Posts: 17953 | April 30th, 2008 at 05:57pm My sophomore year we watched "Breakfast Club" without notes and that's rated R. We didn't freak out and scream like animals. There were only three of us in class, though.
My senior year we watched Braveheart. No parental notes again.
But in seventh grade we had to get notes signed to watch Grease.  |
Torden
Fanfic Fanatic
Age: -
Gender: Female
Posts: 1308 | April 30th, 2008 at 08:25pm We watched Braveheart in History. With no notes or anything. Just slammed in the video and that was that. Lots of violence.
Oh and once we had to watch a video of JFK getting assassinated. |
Paige M.D.
Cliché Catastrophe
Age: 14
Gender: Female
Posts: 411 | April 30th, 2008 at 11:52pm Haha. Thank you guys. |
feliz flea
Grammar Guru
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Posts: 6111 | I think it all depends on the class
Like for History Class this yearwe watched the Patriot, and last year we watched Braveheart, but even though they're both rated 'R', they was suitable for what we were learning about
Whereas in Math Class we watched Juno [which I thought was appropriate] my math teacher didn't think it was ~school appropriate.
Personally though, I think if a class is going to watch a movie just to watch a movie, then it's okay to be PG-13
But if a class is watching a movie that is both fun to watch but also pertains to the class, then it's okay for it to be 'R'. Assuming it's a high school class, who is obviously mature enough [usually] to handle the contents of the movie. |
jepha
Fanfic Fanatic
Age: 17
Gender: -
Posts: 3101 | If it's PG-13 and for a junior high or above class
then I don't see what the problem would be even if there
are a few sexual innuendos in them. It's not like we see
anything worse on tv. I mean I've seen shampoo and
lotion commercials with just as much sexual innuendos
as the movies you mentioned.
In my history class today we just started watching Troy
and at all of the parts with sex all we got was a few giggles.
And I mean honestly I go to a school were there's over thirty
girls pregnant, I don't think a few sexual jokes are going to
make us any less innocent then we already are. Sad but true. |
Charlie
Cliché Catastrophe
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Posts: 547 | LOL
I don't really care how gorey, sexual, or verbal the movie is. We're forced to get a permission slip signed anytime we watch a movie. I understand how parents care about the rating sometimes, but I've never met a student who's parent checked of "NO" for watching any movie in class.
I personally think that all students should be handed a permission slip to watch ANY movie in ANY class on the first day of school. It would save a lot more paper. |
RICHARD III.
Cliché Catastrophe
Age: -
Gender: -
Posts: 365 | We watched Borat at the end of last year. Everyone in the class was thirteen or fourteen. We don't have notes, some boys brought the DVD in and said it was a 12.
Only the bit when they're running naked round the hotel, I didn't think the teacher would be too impressed. But she let us finish watching it the next lesson. |
fool's paradise
AWOL
Age: 14
Gender: Female
Posts: 835 | The worst we've watched yet is The Oustiders.
Damn, Dally in his tighty whitey and Soda gettin' out of that shower.
DAMN! THAT WAS HOT....
Dally was always my favorite...  |
Smashed Pumpkin
magic.
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Posts: 10842 | I think ratings may be different in Australia, but we watched Schindler's List and Titanic in year 11 (I would have been 15/16), when I was about 11 we watched Stand By Me at a school camp and when I was twelve, we watched The Matrix.
Generally, at my high school they wouldn't show M or MA movies unless we were 15. |
pulmonary archery.
Ink Slinger
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Posts: 979 | In our school we didn't get notes home, but we just obeyed the PG, 12, 15 age restrictions on films.
I suppose when it comes down to the actual content, a 12 year old can still be quite immature and find things like sexual innuendo a very giggly subject, or be shocked by cursing. It can especially make you feel uncomfortable if your watching stuff like that with your teachers, as you proably would be with you're parents.
So... The actual school factor makes a difference too. I'm in 6th form and people are still in shock when they hear teachers swear infront of us, or if we're watching a video with someone cursing. It's being in a usual strict and formal environment which makes things seem that more... wrong, I suppose. |
bellakilling
Amateur Author
Age: 14
Gender: Female
Posts: 104 | Heavy Breeding:If it's PG-13 and for a junior high or above class
then I don't see what the problem would be even if there
are a few sexual innuendos in them. It's not like we see
anything worse on TV. I mean I've seen shampoo and
lotion commercials with just as much sexual innuendos
as the movies you mentioned.
there's kids at my school that sneak in porn.
My school is strict about this stuff, though we did watch Into The West this year in History (some parts of that disturbed me abit)
but last year like we watched alot more movies (all rated PG)
and we only had to get parents consent for one (and it was Mulan by Disney)
The only reason why people think things like watching a movie that was PG-13 and talks abit about sex in school is bad is because you have some parents that get all butt hurt (those are the parents that get pissed off if a kid draws like a flower on herself). If those parents were around when their kids were at school and heard how often kids talk explicitly about sex and stuff they would home school. |
Best Selling Freedom
Student Shakespeare
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Posts: 7016 | We got to watch porn last year. 
But the teacher got into shit for letting us, so we all denied it.
"Nooooooo. We didn't watch anything. The only thing we've EVER watched with sex in it was in Sex Ed.." |
Smashed Pumpkin
magic.
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Posts: 10842 | We watched Shakespeare in Love a few years ago in music...but the teacher fast-forwarded through the sex scene.  |
Nathan Petrelli
Fanfic Fanatic
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Posts: 2874 | Smashed Pumpkin:We watched Shakespeare in Love a few years ago in music...but the teacher fast-forwarded through the sex scene.
Our teacher said(About that film when we watched it.)
"We're going to watch this. If you don't know these things by now. You should."
XD |
