My wife just told me about a post to one of the online forums she frequents, wherein a local teacher showed The Passion of the Christ to 15-year-old high school students without any parental consent or notification. Regardless of where you stand on the whole Christian thing, PotC is one of the most violent movies ever made, and I'm including Quentin Tarantino films in that mix (Roger Ebert said it was the most violent movie he's ever seen). At the very least, it has an R rating, and by definition, parents are supposed to give the OK (or not), before a minor watches a R-rated film. I know those are only the MPAA ratings, not US law, but I think it's safe to say it's a reasonable standard for schools to use. Personally, I have no problem with violence in films -- but I'm 37 and it's an informed choice. No, I do not show violent films to my 4-year-old son. >From my tone (i.e. the above is a Bad Thing), this is not to say that the above teacher should be disciplined or fired or whatever for wanting to show the film, but certainly, without allowing students to opt out and/or letting parents know that a controversial film is in the neighborhood, IMHO, some sort of reprimand (at least) is justified. To be perfectly honest, I am often of the opinion that people who frequently take offense, should be given plenty of offense to take, but I do recognize that reality is not for everyone ;-) and more seriously, anyone who can get through life with minimal exposure to others' hate, prejudice, intolerance, etc. -- more power to 'em I seem to be rambling now, so I'll just say, thanks for the post, and as I am [currently] a San Jose local, I'll look up Hijinks some time; maybe they can be my new FLGS (if they are also a GS). Cheers, Ankhst > X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on lists.looneylabs.com > X-Spam-Level: > X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.0 > X-Original-To: something@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Delivered-To: something@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Subject: RE: [Something] A good reason and place to buy comics this month... > Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 17:52:31 +0100 > From: "Atwood, Robert C" <r.atwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: "General Wunderland.Com Discussion List" <something@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > X-Barracuda-Bayes: INNOCENT GLOBAL 0.5000 1.0000 0.0100 > X-Barracuda-Spam-Report: Code version 3.1, rules version 3.1.30270 Rule breakdown below pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- > > Weird, I did not see the original news story yet ... > > When I was in grade 9, we were encouraged to go to see the stage play > 'Equus' by Peter Shaeffer, and the theater presenting it offered > significant discout for highschool students. > > There is nudity in that play ! And other potentially objectionable > things like insanity , violence, singing of television commercial > jingles, .. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: something-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > [mailto:something-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of > > Laurie J. Rich > > Sent: 04 October 2007 16:04 > > To: General Wunderland.Com Discussion List > > Subject: [Something] A good reason and place to buy comics > > this month... > > > > Heard via boingboing.net... > > > > "Dan from Silicon Valley's Hijinx Comics writes, > > > > I own and operate a comic book shop in San Jose, CA which was > > recently voted best comic shop in Silicon Valley. I write free comic > > retailing software and I also run an online graphic novel store called > > ComicBookShelf.com . > > > > The recent teacher ousting over Eightball #22 was a real wakeup > > call that there is a lot of work to do on making the public understand > > what a vital and important artform comics can be. A world where an > > educator loses their job for recommending Dan Clowes is a world I > > don't want to live in! > > > > That's just one of the reasons I'm proud to announce that > > ComicBookShelf.com will donate 5% of every online sale to the Comic > > Book Legal Defense Fund which supports comics-related first amendment > > cases. > > > > We're also donating an additional 5% to the Hero Initiative which > > helps get financial help to golden age comic artists who never made > > any royalties from their priceless creations. > > > > Furthermore, until the end of October 2007 we will double the > > donation to both organizations, meaning 20% of every sale will go to > > these worthy organizations. > > > > Shipping is always free anywhere in the US and we support Google > > checkout for safe and secure payment processing. We carry a wide array > > of books and our open source bookstore recommendation algorithms let > > you rate books and get recommendations. Kind of like Netflix does, but > > for graphic novels." > > > > Laurie > > > > -- > > "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, > > signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not > > fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." > > President Dwight D. Eisenhower > > April 16, 1953 > > _______________________________________________ > > Something mailing list > > Something@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > http://lists.looneylabs.com/mailman/listinfo/something > > > _______________________________________________ > Something mailing list > Something@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.looneylabs.com/mailman/listinfo/something