Showing certain movies in films class.

[CaptainSpaulding.]

So a year or 2 ago, a teacher at my school got fired for showing A Clockwork Orange in a senior films class. Don't you agree that such works of art should be shown? For example, if I was teaching a history class and we were discussing nazi Germany, I'd show American History X to reflect on where nazism has gone today. Of course the standard release forms and whatever will go out to parents, etc. to tell them about what they're going to be seeing, and if they disagree they can go somewhere else and do work, what's so bad about that? It's not like a senior in high school can't go out and rent ACO if they wanted to. Discuss, Flame, Agree, whatever.

[Venetian.]

yeah, i don't see what is so wrong about learning about what alot of people died for, just so you don't ask the wrong people in the future.

[CaptainSpaulding.]

yeah, i don't see what is so wrong about learning about what alot of people died for, just so you don't ask the wrong people in the future.

Lol, neither of those movies have anything to do with wars mate.

[K^2]

I don't think that if the teacher has bothered to nottify the school and acquire signatures of students' parents, he'd be in any sort of trouble. Movies with such content are shown in classes all the time for one reason or another. Yes, it is a lot of trouble to go to, espetially if you can't get signatures form all the students' parents, since that would mean requiring something to occupy the students who don't get to watch the film, but it is by no means impossible to organize.

[Otter]

It's my firm opinion that your average 18 year old is prepared to deal with the dystopian horrors displayed in A Clockwork Orange.

 

However - those who can appreciate this film, in particular, are those of a a different mindset that your average middle-american highschool graduate. To subject a class comprised of what many would refer to as minors to something like A Clockwork Orange, or Quills is just not socially acceptable these days. The teacher ought to have thought about that first.

 

I know many university professors that would abstain from showing that film during a lecture. This is the sheltered, timid and frivolous world that we live it.

[CaptainSpaulding.]

Otter, I don't quite understand what you mean by not socially acceptable. If it's not socially acceptable, than why do people that age still watch it? Why is it still on HBO? I probably misunderstood you, so if I did, feel free to respond.

[Otter]

First of all, HBO isn't exactly family programming.

 

Second; American society today, as progressive as it may be, does not jive with showing rape to minors, especially the depraved glorification of rape that can be read into A Clockwork Orange.

 

People that age do watch it, but people that age also watch hardcore pornography - should a teacher be able to screen Debbie does Dallas in class? Could you imagine the drooling, snarling parents after that?

 

Just like an instructor shouldn't be able to force religious or political views on his students, he shouldn't be allowed to show something in class that is goes against the moral majority.

 

....god, how I despise the moral majority...

[The Truth7]

hear about the Brokeback High incident?

[Lone Soldier D]

IF you can show the students that there was another way to solve the conflict, then they can show any movie, but there must be a meaning with the film, always discusses the movie after it. I haven't seen A Clockwork Orange, I didn’t go to school that day because I was tiered or something, don't remember.