Yet MORE fundie prudishness in the classroom...This time MacBeth is the target

[Blue_Tires]

CHESAPEAKE

"Fair is foul, and foul is fair."

The parent of a Great Bridge High School student just calls last week's Shakespeare lesson filthy.

The senior English class compared film adaptations of "Macbeth." Among them: Roman Polanski's 1971 version, with shots of topless witches and an adolescent boy in the buff.

The controversial movie was named the best film of 1971 by the National Board of Review. But Morgan Thompson, a student in the class, wasn't enamored of it. In fact, the nudity and violence upset her so much that she told her dad.

"She came home and said, 'Oh, my God, you won't believe what happened,' " Bill Thompson said.

He called the school to complain. Thompson wants the teacher punished. If the school doesn't act, he said, he plans to pursue warrants against the teacher, alleging contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

Thompson happens to be a local police officer.

Chesapeake schools spokesman Tom Cupitt said the showing of the film violated policy and that the personnel department is investigating.

"If you choose to bring something in, it has to be approved" by a school administrator, Cupitt said. "This was not done."

http://hamptonroads.com/2010/01/great-bridge-student-parent-unamused-polanski-macbeth

I saw Polanski's MacBeth in 10th grade, all the way back in nineteen hundred and ninety-three...Not one complaint from a parent or student (And I was attending a no-fun, sexually repressed, uber-right wing Catholic school at the time...)