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panic at the disco
Cliché Catastrophe
Age: 14
Gender: Female
Posts: 465 | July 9th, 2008 at 09:38pm We've watched rated R movies in school we saw The Village, but it's not scary. So it doesn't really matter does it? |
She Wants Revenge
Writer's Block
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Posts: 9 | July 10th, 2008 at 06:06am Ok it is horrible to let kindergardeners watch movies where people are having the skin seared off them with lava and then having scientist recreate the bones with what they looked like... My teacher was physco. Had us watch a movie on tornadoes and told us they sucked up little kids and killed them -_-
I blame patial childhood scarring on her lolz |
Conor Beag.
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Age: 16
Gender: Female
Posts: 177 | July 10th, 2008 at 08:18pm I don't think sexual innuendo is as problematic as graphic images and violence is for a "immature" class. Towards the end of the school year in our world history class we ended up watching real footage of the after mass of the A-bomb and read real accounts of what it was like I have a very vivid memory of my teacher reading this "men were burned so terribly you couldn't tell which side was the front of him and which side was the back" and it's not as horrible as the footage we saw of the holocaust and I can't get the image of a lady sitting down on a pile of rotting bodies out of my head.
I really don't think movies like "dodge ball" are something to be worried about |
xXGreyWingsXx
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Age: 16
Gender: Female
Posts: 152 | July 10th, 2008 at 11:59pm I know! It happens loads. We watched some random film which was a fifteen in my RE class when I was... 12? I think.
And in my history class in yr 9 (13 years old) our teacher delibarately showed us films like Hotel Rwanda, and Mississippi Burning in order to illustrate what it was like at the time.
I'm normally fine with gore and stuff, but not when I know it's from a true story.
I'd finish each lesson in tears and feeling completely depressed! |
xXGreyWingsXx
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Age: 16
Gender: Female
Posts: 152 | July 11th, 2008 at 12:00am MothsUponOldScarves:I don't think sexual innuendo is as problematic as graphic images and violence is for a "immature" class. Towards the end of the school year in our world history class we ended up watching real footage of the after mass of the A-bomb and read real accounts of what it was like I have a very vivid memory of my teacher reading this "men were burned so terribly you couldn't tell which side was the front of him and which side was the back" and it's not as horrible as the footage we saw of the holocaust and I can't get the image of a lady sitting down on a pile of rotting bodies out of my head.
I really don't think movies like "dodge ball" are something to be worried about
Exactly what I'm talking about! And I know what you mean about the holocaust.
Ugh. |
Conor Beag.
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Age: 16
Gender: Female
Posts: 177 | July 11th, 2008 at 01:01am it's really upsetting and leaves emotional scaring which is the real concern
although I think its needed and serves well to really get it through kids heads how sever it truly was. I mean I knew I was mature enough to handle it but its still rather upsetting and just a shock and such but there were definitely kids in that class room that had nightmares after it because of how graphic it was |
emily.
Fanfic Fanatic
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Posts: 1850 | July 11th, 2008 at 09:18am We watched the Matrix in Religious and Values Education.
Something about beliefs...
And we watched Anchorman after our Science exam, because our class wanted to, and we had a good teacher. |
Sara
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Gender: Female
Posts: 3480 | July 12th, 2008 at 10:31am We watched Pan's Labyrinth in Spanish class! It taught the entire class how to swear in Spanish.
When you think about it, my school is weird. =\ It's so..hippie like in it's morals and teaching style. |
Conor Beag.
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Age: 16
Gender: Female
Posts: 177 | July 12th, 2008 at 02:09pm Sara: We watched Pan's Labyrinth in Spanish class! It taught the entire class how to swear in Spanish.
When you think about it, my school is weird. =\ It's so..hippie like in it's morals and teaching style.
take me to your school?
hide me in your backpack and sneak me in?
srsly. |
Sara
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Age: -
Gender: Female
Posts: 3480 | July 12th, 2008 at 09:42pm MothsUponOldScarves:Sara: We watched Pan's Labyrinth in Spanish class! It taught the entire class how to swear in Spanish.
When you think about it, my school is weird. =\ It's so..hippie like in it's morals and teaching style.
take me to your school?
hide me in your backpack and sneak me in?
srsly. I only have a little messenger bag D: I think you'd break me. |
Lights
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Age: 16
Gender: Female
Posts: 141 | July 13th, 2008 at 07:23am
OK, so in my English class we read A Midsummer's Night Dream, right? And we watched the movie afterwards, which would seem like not a big deal... Except there was nudity in the movie. A lot of it... Our teacher didn't even see it, she was out and we had a sub. Awkward times, man. Awkward times.
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Lynnie teh Used
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Age: 16
Gender: Female
Posts: 270 | July 15th, 2008 at 05:10pm Our schools ridiculous... we're high schoolers, and the movies have to be G or PG, but preferably G..... *dies* |
Frankie007
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Age: 14
Gender: Female
Posts: 255 | July 16th, 2008 at 12:00pm We watched a Knights Tale in history last term, but they had to send out permision slips and stuff to all the parents, and anyone who didn't have theirs had to go to the library and work. ha. |
Pesticide.
Cliché Catastrophe
Age: 13
Gender: Female
Posts: 567 | July 17th, 2008 at 10:11am I think, once you hit high school, M-Rated (PG-13) should be allowed with a note, and PG and G should be 'Yeah, sure, go ahead.' And then once the class is fifteen, MAs with a note if there are any issues.
Sure, don't watch Saw with a class of thirteen-year-olds. Don't put on Good Luck Chuck for a bunch of sixth-graders. But be reasonable; by high school, loads of kids already know what's swearing and what's not. We know what sex is.
I remember in the fifth grade, I brought in Nightmare Before Christmas for the class to watch, and the teacher next door said it would be too scary. I could understand saying no if I had brought in Sleepy Hollow, or Dracula, but a G-Rated animated movie like Nightmare is nothing.
Send a note home if they must. Tell parents to call if there are any issues. Teachers should have enough common sense to know whether a class can handle movies of certain genres. |
pulmonary archery.
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Age: 17
Gender: Female
Posts: 979 | July 18th, 2008 at 12:02am We watched a movie in English today which was an 18. Well, it was actually a TV series on video, but anyway...
We didn't get permission to watch it or anything, even though we're all 17 and a couple of us 16. I don't think it was inapproriate, as such, because it's not like we're far off that age, but it just didn't seem it had a point for our class. I mean, we couldn't really see through all the sex scenes and drug taking, because it all seemed very forward.
It's called Buddha of Surbia, I think, if anyone's seen it. |
Al Rosewater
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Age: 15
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Posts: 219 | July 19th, 2008 at 11:28pm I remember watching Romeo and Juliet last year... I didn't expect boobs, that was all. I don't think the teacher did either XD
And we watch a ton of stuff on the holocaust *yawn*
Seriously, if I see another "Oh god, they killed the Jews!!!" movie in this lifetime I'm gonna flip.
BTW, did you know that 1/3 of the Jews were killed, and 3/4 of the Gypsies were killed? Don't see movies on that, now do you? Thought not, stop bitching 'bout the poor little 1/3 of dead Jews. |
january
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Posts: 25 | July 20th, 2008 at 07:12pm In 7th grade we watched The Patriot. You know, the one with Mel Gibson running around hacking people up with a Tomahawk. It pissed me off.
In 6th grade we watched The Island o the Blue Dolphins and it showed Spanish Conquistadors killing off an entire tribe of Indians and I started crying.
Sometimes I'd rather get lectured than have to watch violent movies in school.
Don't get me wrong, I watch R rated movies like there's no tomorrow I just don't think they should be shown to impressionable kids. |
Evanescent Dasha
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Age: 17
Gender: Female
Posts: 895 | July 22nd, 2008 at 04:26am In my AP United States history class our teacher could care less
He showed us what he wanted
The highlight of that year was watching
Blazing Saddles
and
Monty Python and the holy grail! |
AmyPoptart
Cliché Catastrophe
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Posts: 348 | July 23rd, 2008 at 09:53am We can't watch a lot of films.
We can watch M or MA, but only if it's on the syllabus and we're all 15 or over. It really sucks.
And we weren't allowed to watch Rocky Horror in music, even though everyone was dying to, just because it's about a transvestite! |
Marieee;OCD
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Age: 18
Gender: Female
Posts: 223 | July 23rd, 2008 at 12:41pm In 6th grade, we were watching Titanic at the end of the year, and when the scene where he paints Rose naked, our teacher turned it off because it was 'inappropriate'.
Pathetic, much? I think so. |
