Concerning teachers and possibly school librarians and the infamous Berg

[Valerie5555]

beheading video.



If a teacher or possibly school librarian at a HIGH SCHOOL whose students were teenagers between 15 and 18 years of age ever got into trouble for letting those students watch the infamous Berg beheading video or for even showing it to them, I wonder if a teacher or possibly school librarian at an ELEMENTARY school whose students were "not yet teenagers," or pre-teens of between 8 and 10 years of age would no doubt get into more trouble for either letting their students watch that video or even for ACTUALLY showing it to them.

[shraby]

1. I would certainly hope

they would get into trouble for it. Many adults don't even want to see it. How could they expect children's brains to be able to assimilate the horror of it.

[Valerie5555]

2. Maybe teens are tough enough to handle such a thing (or the teens

themselves may think they're tough enough), but as for kids who were preteens or younger I am sure anyone can and should think if that wasn't CHILD ABUSE, possibly in a psychological or psychic or whatever sense, they weren't sure what was.


On edit: If some young person in high school or even university or college wanted to even think of watching that video, since they thought it was "cool," maybe someone ought to remind them that if they ended up in the military one way or the other and that happened to them if they were captured as a POW, it wouldn't be as "cool."

[roguevalley]

3. No teacher or librarian (I've been both-27 years) has the

right to show this stuff. It's so outside
the pale I am still amazed anyone lacked the
judgment of even a gnat and showed it. There
is no defense about this issue. You don't
have the right. Most school districts have
it in their policy that you cannot show more
than g and pg in elementary and pg-13 in the
older grades. Sometimes an r might make it
but it better be tied to curriculum, pre-screened
by the proper people and have written permissions
on the premises.

I cannot BELIEVE anyone showed that. Dimwits. They
give us all a bad name. Most districts would either
suspend you or fire you and I doubt there is a
defense. I am sure it violated written policy.

[Valerie5555]

4. Holy mackerel , had found out about a case from believe it or not the

e mail "Way Weird" newsletter where some teacher in Texas had shown the video to some 3RD GRADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLERS.