Showing any R rated films to children under 18 is not acceptable. Every teacher knows that. There is really no excuse for the teacher in question. Substitute teachers, sometimes without lesson plans, look for anything to cover their time in classes. And, if the film is available and the teacher can feel intellectually bold and daring by showing it, well, you see here what can happen.
LOL!!
You give them way too much credit.
wasn't there a case of a teacher who got fired for accidentally showing her class some adult website? I don't see any difference here, in fact it's worse because it was deliberate.
I've only heard about the film. I thought that the sexual-type content was actually rather mild, like PG rating material. Do you know why it had an R rating?
My sister was livid when she found out one of her high school daughters was shown the movie "Glory" as a reward for the class being quiet and cooperative during a previous lesson.
"It's an R-Rated movie!", she shrieked.
I explained to her that it was a movie about black soldiers in the Civil War and the R rating was for the violence, which you are bound to encounter in a war movie. Otherwise, there was nothing objectionable about it.
You make a good point that, technically, the school shouldn't be a proper venue for films that have been rated as to recommend children under 17 not view it. However, I don't always agree with the ratings movies receive and "Glory" was one such movie. I've found myself far more offended by any number of PG and PG-13 movies than this particular R feature.