"What happens in Ms. Buford's class stays in Ms. Buford's class."
That's apparently what a substitute teacher said to her class as she shut the door and showed her 8th grade students (gasp! horror!) Brokeback Mountain, an action which has now led to the school district being sued for $500,000 because one girl in particular "was traumatized to the point that she had to undergo psychological treatment and counseling."
Said the girl's father, ""It is very important to me that my children not be exposed to this. The teacher knew she was not supposed to do this... This was the last straw. I feel the lawsuit was necessary because of the warning I had already given them on the literature they were giving out to children to read. I told them it was against our faith."
Take your kid to Christian school then, jackass. In the "outside world" - you know, the one filled with SINNERS, there are these crazy things called "homosexuals" and "swear words" that have yet to shred the fabric of space and time.
That said, 8th grade might be a little early for implied sodomy in the classroom. Thoughts?
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Well that's ridiculous....you gotta think the teacher had SOME idea that some people might be offended, though. It's rated R, correct? Having parents sign a slip or some shit might have been a good idea.
While I don't think their poor wee 8th grade psyches were really in any danger, it was really inappropriate of the teacher to do that without parental permission (unless it was an 8th grade course in gay cinema--wish I'd gone to THAT Jr.High).
Yeah, while I have zero sypathy for parents who think it's their constitutional right to keep their children sheltered from the realities of the world, you have to figure an R rated of movie of any kind being showed to junior high kids without permission or notification is dumb at best, and probably controversy-baiting to boot. The fact that the parents filing suit are doing so for Christian/anti-gay reasons doesn't mean the teacher wasn't being stupid.
I agree that Ms. Buford was actively looking for some controversy here. I mean, yes, it was wholly inappropriate without parental approval to show an R-rated movie to underage kids.
I just think suing's become such a ridiculous out-of-control fad. My daughter's damaged for life or $50,000, whichever comes first! STFU.
There must've been one insecure closeted kid in that class who saw it and realized there's nothing wrong with him, and if that's the only good thing that came out of this mess, so be it.
Let's see, I'm in 8th grade, I saw it when I was in 7th, but I'm more psychologically capable and intelligent to understand and get something like this (although I say it was overrated, it was still good), but generally the 8th grade is a bit too early. But, um, do they still have bible schools anymore? I thought they were destroyed in the rapture.
I have to disagree with Jake. When I was a closeted jr. high kid coming to terms with my sexuality, seeing Brokeback Mountain wouldn't have done any of that--rather I would have seen two people live decades in an unhappy life, still closeted for fear of others' reactions, encouraging themselves to live lives filled with lies toward those closest to them and ultimately realizing the very real possibility of some hillbilly beating me to death.
It has its fantastic qualities, and as far as seeing it as an example of how much (little) further we'ver come in accepting gay cinema in the mainstream and our precious little straight starlets as playing gay, it isn't a very gay-positive movie and were I one of the insecure kids mentioned in that example, a movie like this one would have had me welding the closet shut.
No, I meant that the kid might realize that that is a wrong way to live his/her life, lieing to themselves and everyone around them, until ultimately it destorys them.
Ah well, yeah I'm in agreement there
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