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CUT!!! wtf?
Posted on 05/18/2006 12:28:59 PM PDT by DBeers
CANNONSBURG, Ky. -- An English teacher at an eastern Kentucky school hampered by division over gay issues showed a short snippet of "Brokeback Mountain" to her students in a class.
About 2 1/2 minutes of the film was shown last week in a senior cinematography class at Boyd County High School, Superintendent Howard K. Osborne said Thursday.
The brief showing of the film, which centers on the sexual relationship between two male sheepherders, upset at least one parent who had a student in the class. Nothing with sexual content was shown.
Osborne said "Brokeback Mountain" won't be shown again at the school. He declined to say if any action was taken against the teacher who showed the film.
"We've had an investigative inquiry and we've taken appropriate action," Osborne said. He declined to comment further, calling it a "personnel matter."
Osborne said there have been few complaints from parents over the showing of the film, which has been noted by critics for its rich photography. Director Ang Lee won the Oscar this year for best director.
Students in Boyd County have been divided in recent years over gay issues since a group of students petitioned to form a gay awareness club at the high school in 2002. A lawsuit ensued and the school district later settled. The agreement called for anti-harassment training for all staff and students.
Kelley Smith said she was upset the film was shown at all.
"This is a really bad time for all this to have happened," said Smith, whose 17-year-old son, Chris, was in the class. "If she wanted to show it in class she should have gotten parents permission and if some students wanted to see it, it should have been their choice."
From KY... Home of KY Jelly
Osborne said there have been few complaints from parents over the showing of the film, which has been noted by critics for its rich photography. Director Ang Lee won the Oscar this year for best director.
CUT! PRINT! GAY!
This is why we homeschool.
Exactly. The reporter failed to do his job by not giving more details. What was the topic they were studying? What was shown? Why was it shown? Was there another film, without the controversy, that could have been used? Why this particular film? Did the teacher, knowing the film's controversy, consult the principal before hand and if so was if approved, or if the principal wasn't consulted then why not?
I do not know. I can assume based upon experience with the MSM that when such details are "ommited" they usually do not serve the purpose of the reporters agenda...
I would also like to know what specific 2 1/2 minute segment was shown. I have not seen the movie, but I suppose its possible that there is a 2 1/2 minute stint that is cinemagraphically fantatstic but has nothing to do with homosexuality.
Another big problem
Well it does say that 'nothing with sexual content was shown.'
"a group of students petitioned to form a gay awareness club"
Was there anyone out there who was not aware of gays? This needed a club?
"I can't stop teaching you!"
Well, the Discovery Channel has rich photography, so somehow I don't think that was it.
I agree 100%. If the teacher had shown any questionable scenes, or any scenes the reporter thought people would find shocking, you can be sure they would be detailed in the article.
It seems each day brings news of our disintegrating culture! I was very fortunate in knowing the person who heads our town's main supermarket and prevailed upon him to remove "Brokeback Mountain" from the movie rental shelves. It is a real war these days!
"What was in the clip that was actually shown? A sunset to demonstrate cinematography?"
Even if it was, it manipulatets the kids in to wanting to see more of that particular movie. I'm sure that if the focus was on sunsets in cinematography there are other sunsets in other movies which would've served the purpose.
Home schooling kids and taking away the per-student stipend to schools is a good way to drive change.
I just wish there was more context in this story. When I was in High school we watched 'The Godfather' in film study. That would probably draw complaints today.
At least they stopped calling them "cowboys".
Godfather is rated R which means no one under 17 without parent or guardian is admitted to view the film.
Were all the students 17 or more? If not were their parent or guardian informed to make the decision if they could see the film in the class?
LOL
Did you have to post that?!!
I don't believe they asked permission no. It was a unit on the 'Gangster Film'...starting with the 1930s Jimmy Cagney stuff and going forwards to The Godfather, Chinatown... It's really no more violent as a movie then a lot of Shakespeare is. Movies just don't have the same reverence in the culture that books do.
Now *that's* funny.
Ditto! True barf alert!
"Me, neither."
Context is the essence of life. If an article said that a teacher made students watch a scene 'of graphic torture where someone has their eyes gouged out' people would be appalled...until finding out that it was King Lear.
As I recall in a High School english class I took the teacher showed us Walkabout which was R rated.
Obviously I didn't mind, but really showing R-rated films in school should not take place.
In my opinion there's no reason to show any commercial films at all -- except in a film class, but there's no reason for a film class in high school either (although I took one then).
How 'bout a young woman being raped, then having her tongue cut out and hands cut off so she can't tell who did it?
Also Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus.
>>About 2 1/2 minutes of the film was shown last week in a senior cinematography class at Boyd County High School, Superintendent Howard K. Osborne said Thursday.<<
Well it was nominated for an Oscar for cinematography so the the only question is whether they are allowed to show an non-sexual portion of an R rated movie.
We just lost a brilliabnt English teacher here in Gwinnett county for showing the movie Elizabeth to a class where all the kids were old enough to see an R-rated movie without a parent's consent.
I see it a different way. Newsrooms are typically loaded with homosexuals and homosexual supporters. Protecting the homosexual agenda is more important than titillating the public with lurid details.
I would guess the clip showed the two main characters kissing. If I'm right, providing this detail would inflame the general public and that's not what the homosexual agendists want. They want to gradually and quietly push their agenda.
Th AP claims it was a "2 1/2 minute clip"............funny how our local paper here in Boyd County (The Daily Independent) had this about the "clip": "Teacher Ann Qualls showed about the first 15 to 20 minutes of the Oscar-wining movie..................".
Wonder how they got the 2 1/2 minute thing?
Oh........and the Supt. (Osborne) stated it was "15 to 20 minutes" to our local paper, but suddenly the AP has him quoted as 2 1/2.
Mmmmmmmmm.
This is the way it goes, starts with a snippet, then a stripling and then finally, the whole "sparkling bright bass."
We watched Romeo & Juliet in Jr. High....that guy was soooo HOT!
>Th AP claims it was a "2 1/2 minute clip"............funny how our local paper here in Boyd County (The Daily Independent) had this about the "clip": "Teacher Ann Qualls showed about the first 15 to 20 minutes of the Oscar-wining movie..................".
Wonder how they got the 2 1/2 minute thing?<<
I have no idea what was in the first 15 minutes. I know when i taught high school they let me teach Clockwork Orange but I didn't even consider showing the movie.
The question is: Did it deserve that Oscar? I suspect that it was just inflating the movie (especially since the Academy didn't give it best picture) so that it could forever be called "an Oscar winning movie." Nor do I feel that "will & Grace" deserved as many Emmies as the show received during its tenure.
I can see the Brokeback High?
headline now. No, they may want to push the agenda slowly, but they want to sell papers more than anything. And a lead paragraph that leads something line this is guaranteed sales.
" Blahblah High School was put in hot water today when it was reported that Cinematography teacher John Doe showed explicit scenes from last years contreversial hit Brokeback Mountain in his class yesterday. Details on page 4."
Don't you think?
No 2.5 minute clip from this film, beginning, middle, or end should be shown in a public school, any more than some snippet of any length of "Pink Flamingos" should be shown. Its an
attempt to push an agenda in the same way that a sneak-preview is shown on movie trailers, or prior to the main movie at a theatre, or as a commercial on TV.
It is obvious that the esteemed AP is guilty of throwing some water on the flames by nationally reporting it was just a little two and a half minute clip, while we here know it was at least 15 minutes.
Also, one other salient point the AP has neglected to mention from the story in our paper:
"On Friday Qualls told the class some parents had complained to Supt. Howard K. Osborne and that she anticipated a possible suspension, Chris Smith (a student in her class) said. "She said she didn't give a s*** about it", he said.
Nice, huh?
Ummmmmmm.........guess who "appeared in the anti-harassment video, leading students in a roundtable discussion"?
That's right...........Ann Qualls!!!
No agenda my foot.
Don't believe me? Go to dailyindependent.com and check out the front page article.
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