Parents outraged over teachers' prank school shooting

joepole · 05-14-2007, 07:52 PM

>Gee, one has to wonder if you would feel the same way about someone showing a movie to your daughter glorifying statuatory rape

Do schools not study Romeo and Juliet anymore? Juliet's 13, how old is Paris, 20?

Antigone? That one's got it all: incest, rape, murder, suicide

>or if we can add hypocrite to the list of adjectives used to describe what a piece of **** you are.

You truly have a talent for taking the straw man/false dichotomy to heights previously unheard of my mere mortals.

The truth is I wouldn't consider a teacher showing my 12 year old daughter any mainstream commercial movie to be a serious enough offense to warrant any sort of serious punishment. Can it be inappropriate? Definitely. Was it in this case? Almost certainly. Is it a serious problem that warrants serious consequences for those involved? Of course not. A movie that depicts gay people isn't going to "make your kid gay" any more than reading about Leopold and Loeb is going to make him a serial killer.

05-14-2007, 07:52 PM	#17
joepole SBLive! Veteran Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 1,606 Rep Power: 281	>Gee, one has to wonder if you would feel the same way about someone showing a movie to your daughter glorifying statuatory rape Do schools not study Romeo and Juliet anymore? Juliet's 13, how old is Paris, 20? Antigone? That one's got it all: incest, rape, murder, suicide >or if we can add hypocrite to the list of adjectives used to describe what a piece of **** you are. You truly have a talent for taking the straw man/false dichotomy to heights previously unheard of my mere mortals. The truth is I wouldn't consider a teacher showing my 12 year old daughter any mainstream commercial movie to be a serious enough offense to warrant any sort of serious punishment. Can it be inappropriate? Definitely. Was it in this case? Almost certainly. Is it a serious problem that warrants serious consequences for those involved? Of course not. A movie that depicts gay people isn't going to "make your kid gay" any more than reading about Leopold and Loeb is going to make him a serial killer.

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