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Wed Nov-18-09 05:50 PM
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| 14. bwwaahhhh... that's a good one! |
| - Parent upset after teacher shows "R" rated movie in class |
The Straight Story |
Nov-18-09 05:36 PM |
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The teacher will probably get written up and have a letter in her file |
tonysam |
Nov-18-09 05:39 PM |
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I would be very upset if a teacher did that to my sixth grader. |
Ozymanithrax |
Nov-18-09 05:40 PM |
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Exactly! How else can we teach our kids to sneak into R flicks? |
ChairmanAgnostic |
Nov-18-09 05:41 PM |
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bwwaahhhh... that's a good one! |
Kerrytravelers |
Nov-18-09 05:50 PM |
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I snuck in to see Jaws. n/t |
cynatnite |
Nov-18-09 05:47 PM |
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We snuck in to see The Story of O! |
Habibi |
Nov-18-09 09:01 PM |
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Horror of horrors! 11-yr-olds might see some boobies! |
baldguy |
Nov-18-09 05:41 PM |
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It's SOP in schools to get parental consent |
tonysam |
Nov-18-09 05:42 PM |
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Perhaps there are many like me ... |
etherealtruth |
Nov-18-09 05:47 PM |
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That is a decision to be made by the parents. |
Ikonoklast |
Nov-18-09 05:49 PM |
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Kung Fu Hustle doesn't even contain boobies. |
HughBeaumont |
Nov-18-09 09:49 PM |
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But it does have some wonderful gratuitous violence - |
RaleighNCDUer |
Nov-20-09 10:28 AM |
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Yes, that was. |
HughBeaumont |
Nov-20-09 10:39 AM |
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What a great movie. |
EOTE |
Nov-20-09 10:43 AM |
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I have no idea either. |
HughBeaumont |
Nov-20-09 11:07 AM |
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But it's all about protecting the children. |
Fire_Medic_Dave |
Nov-19-09 01:46 AM |
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What a sucky movie. Transformers would have been a better reward. n/t |
cynatnite |
Nov-18-09 05:44 PM |
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Oh no! Not Transformers! That would be pure torture. |
Kerrytravelers |
Nov-18-09 05:52 PM |
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Unless the movie is tied to FL Sunshine State Standards, |
FLyellowdog |
Nov-18-09 05:44 PM |
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How is this film educational? That's what I object to, not the R |
mainer |
Nov-18-09 05:46 PM |
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That's nothing. My 8th grade teacher tried to show us Spaceballs. |
Initech |
Nov-18-09 05:47 PM |
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The last few days of the 8th grade out history teacher showed us It. |
LeftyMom |
Nov-18-09 05:53 PM |
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Which forces one to ask the obvious question. |
FBaggins |
Nov-18-09 06:02 PM |
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He *told* us he did it every year. |
LeftyMom |
Nov-18-09 07:05 PM |
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IT? |
dhcave |
Nov-19-09 03:44 PM |
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That's the one. It was (IIRC) three two-hour episodes |
RaleighNCDUer |
Nov-20-09 11:31 AM |
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One could make an argument that an intellectual discussion on satire could take place after the film |
Kerrytravelers |
Nov-18-09 05:58 PM |
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Oh, there's more comedy to discuss in Kung Fu Hustle than any of Brooks' lesser films. |
HiFructosePronSyrup |
Nov-18-09 09:00 PM |
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Funny, Spaceballs is rated PG. |
petersond |
Nov-18-09 09:10 PM |
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It'd be rated R by today's standards. |
Initech |
Nov-19-09 11:24 AM |
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I seriously don't doubt that, it just |
petersond |
Nov-20-09 04:03 PM |
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I rarely showed films that weren't educational in value when I was still classroom-based. |
Kerrytravelers |
Nov-18-09 05:49 PM |
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My fourth grade teacher rewarded us by letting us square dance on Friday afternoons |
csziggy |
Nov-18-09 09:01 PM |
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We just don't do it. Ever. |
donco6 |
Nov-19-09 03:37 PM |
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When my son was in forth grade his teacher had them watch Romeo and Juliet |
cali |
Nov-18-09 05:50 PM |
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At least that was PG-13 |
FBaggins |
Nov-18-09 06:08 PM |
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good thing she/he didn't show the Grapes of Wrath, or maybe |
onethatcares |
Nov-18-09 05:51 PM |
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Or "Slaughterhouse Five". Or "Steambath". |
Tesha |
Nov-18-09 05:55 PM |
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My mother despised the movie... |
cynatnite |
Nov-18-09 05:55 PM |
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When I clicked on this thread, I was expecting high school Students |
MadBadger |
Nov-18-09 05:56 PM |
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It's a fun movie, but I wouldn't choose to show it to a classroom without express consent from all |
GreenPartyVoter |
Nov-18-09 10:51 PM |
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Because there is plenty of actual instructional time in the academic day and school year? |
NYC_SKP |
Nov-18-09 05:59 PM |
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Of all the classic movies out there THAT's what the teacher showed? |
TorchTheWitch |
Nov-18-09 06:02 PM |
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As a freshman in high school |
TlalocW |
Nov-18-09 07:35 PM |
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Still a big difference between sixth and ninth graders |
MadBadger |
Nov-18-09 08:03 PM |
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That was dumb move on the teacher's part. |
Nikki Stone1 |
Nov-18-09 07:37 PM |
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Guess what. |
montanto |
Nov-19-09 03:33 PM |
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My high school teacher showed "Macbeth." |
OnyxCollie |
Nov-19-09 04:05 PM |
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So let me get this straight... |
HiFructosePronSyrup |
Nov-18-09 08:11 PM |
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I think the dickhead parents felt that there are better choices than a stupid R rated movie... |
cynatnite |
Nov-18-09 08:39 PM |
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Nah. |
HiFructosePronSyrup |
Nov-18-09 08:56 PM |
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Oh, so you think as parents they didn't give a shit about what their kids were exposed to at school? |
cynatnite |
Nov-18-09 09:03 PM |
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I don't think these parents give a shit what their children watch. |
HiFructosePronSyrup |
Nov-18-09 09:06 PM |
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How do you know what are in these parents' heads? How can you assume? |
cynatnite |
Nov-18-09 09:09 PM |
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I know they're a bunch of crazy fucking prudes. |
HiFructosePronSyrup |
Nov-18-09 09:11 PM |
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How do you know this? |
cynatnite |
Nov-18-09 09:14 PM |
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Because they're objecting to a teacher showing Kung Fu Hustle. |
HiFructosePronSyrup |
Nov-18-09 09:16 PM |
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What if they had shown that Ben Stein creationist crapumentory to your kid? |
cynatnite |
Nov-18-09 09:19 PM |
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Apples and oranges. |
HiFructosePronSyrup |
Nov-18-09 09:20 PM |
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Some kids do confuse the two and parents do like to have a say so over their children's education... |
cynatnite |
Nov-18-09 09:23 PM |
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Excuse me? |
HiFructosePronSyrup |
Nov-18-09 09:27 PM |
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I've seen kids thinking that they could do what they see on TV... |
cynatnite |
Nov-18-09 09:31 PM |
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And that's got what to do with MPAA ratings? |
HiFructosePronSyrup |
Nov-18-09 09:32 PM |
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You THINK you know what the parents care and don't care about... |
cynatnite |
Nov-18-09 09:37 PM |
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Fascists don't care about education. |
HiFructosePronSyrup |
Nov-18-09 09:51 PM |
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Now they're fascists... |
cynatnite |
Nov-18-09 10:01 PM |
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Yeah, fascists. |
HiFructosePronSyrup |
Nov-19-09 11:15 AM |
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That doesn't apply to this film. |
RaleighNCDUer |
Nov-20-09 10:39 AM |
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Oh, I get it...they're objecting to a movie you like. Gotcha. n/t |
cynatnite |
Nov-18-09 09:24 PM |
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The movie is funny, but my husband was pretty upset with me when I |
GreenPartyVoter |
Nov-18-09 10:54 PM |
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Silly me. |
wolfgangmo |
Nov-19-09 04:24 PM |
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I've seen disney movies less appropriate for kids than Kung Fu Hustle. |
EOTE |
Nov-20-09 10:55 AM |
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At least show a clever or smart or funny "R" rated movie, not a stupid one! |
csziggy |
Nov-18-09 09:11 PM |
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Have you SEEN Kung Fu Hustle? |
HiFructosePronSyrup |
Nov-18-09 09:14 PM |
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I've seen it and I thought it sucked. n/t |
cynatnite |
Nov-18-09 09:15 PM |
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Was I asking you? |
HiFructosePronSyrup |
Nov-18-09 09:17 PM |
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Well, I thought this was a free forum where people replied, commented and bitched... |
cynatnite |
Nov-18-09 09:20 PM |
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First of all |
wolfgangmo |
Nov-19-09 04:30 PM |
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No - I gave up kung fu movies when Bruce Lee died n/t |
csziggy |
Nov-19-09 01:02 AM |
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Kung Fu Hustle is a good deal smarter than a lot of those movies listed. |
EOTE |
Nov-20-09 11:15 AM |
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[TAG] - this sub-thread has been tagged as example of bourgeios underground in action. |
Political Heretic |
Nov-19-09 01:57 AM |
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can you please clarify |
seabeyond |
Nov-19-09 03:52 PM |
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## PLEASE DONATE TO DEMOCRATIC UNDERGROUND! ## |
DU GrovelBot |
Nov-18-09 08:39 PM |
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"Kung Fu Hustle" sounds more like a punishment |
dana_b |
Nov-18-09 08:41 PM |
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It's a live action Tex Avery cartoon by Stephen Chow |
comrade snarky |
Nov-18-09 09:45 PM |
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I was thinking Buster Keaton and Fatty Arbuckle the whole damn time. |
HiFructosePronSyrup |
Nov-18-09 09:54 PM |
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Totally! |
comrade snarky |
Nov-18-09 10:35 PM |
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Have you seen it? |
SemiCharmedQuark |
Nov-19-09 03:49 PM |
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I have to say, I am so fucking tired of movies being rewards for everything all the time. Many kids |
Brickbat |
Nov-18-09 09:29 PM |
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Horror of Horrors! In 9th grade (1983) they played...no really... |
JanMichael |
Nov-18-09 10:00 PM |
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These days they would probably consider "Romeo and Juliet" child pornography,... |
MilesColtrane |
Nov-19-09 08:23 AM |
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Teacher should fired. |
proteus_lives |
Nov-18-09 10:47 PM |
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A review of "Kung Fu Hustle" from Rotten Tomatoes |
Canuckistanian |
Nov-18-09 10:54 PM |
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Our reward movie in 8th grade was "Children of the Corn." I have no idea |
GreenPartyVoter |
Nov-18-09 10:58 PM |
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Every kid should see that movie. |
Forkboy |
Nov-19-09 11:37 AM |
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Dumb. |
donco6 |
Nov-19-09 03:34 PM |
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Teacher's got good taste. I love KFH |
SemiCharmedQuark |
Nov-19-09 03:47 PM |
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