[Jeff Chandler]

This is what passes for curriculum in English classes, which is why we homeschool.

[BenLurkin]

High schoool kids get enough left wing cr_p without watching this guy's Anti-American garbage.

[Commander8]

True, in theory schools are a place where ideas are exchanged. In reality, government schools are socialist training camps where only "politically correct" ideas are discussed.

[supercat]

Someone should produce a companion movie to Bowling for Columbine and use it, along with BFC, to teach students how movies and media can manipulate the truth.

[samtheman]

The producer is also an anti-war person as well.

The producer is also a leftist anti-American traitor scumbag.

[Burkeman1]

The principal of Lynn English High School stopped a teacher from showing the Oscar-winning documentary ''Bowling for Columbine,'' saying it was inappropriate because it contains anti-war messages.

The one question that should pop out to you is why a movie is being shown at all to high school students during class time (much less one that is produced by a far left ideolouge?) Doesn't that just speak volumes about the state of education in this country? But other than that question "Bowling for Columbine" is full of lies and deciets and should have been disqualified even for consideration of an Oscar under the Academy's own rules and definition of what constitutesa a documentary film. The film is a fiction from beginning to end.

[Bullish]

The left basks in propaganda and misinformation.

The head of the english dept. thinks it's "wonderful".

No wonder kids are coming out of school hating America and its values.

[FreedomCalls]

"I don't know where the problem is. We are a school. This is a place where ideas are exchanged, right?"

Well, just assign them some American Nazi Party stuff to read, hand out some Ku Klux Klan brochures, and show them "Triumph of Will." What would be the problem? They are a school. It is a place where ideas are exchanged, right?

Yeah, right. Only if it is radical left-wing propaganda is it OK. Thank you NEA.

[WorkingClassFilth]

"It does have anti-violence and anti-war messages but he was using it to open up the minds of his senior students,'' she said. ''He stopped the movie and talked about
it. I don't know where the problem is. We are a school. This is a place where ideas are exchanged, right?"

I take it that this 'teacher' has previously shown Riefenstahl's 'Triumph of the Will' or D.W. Griffith's "Birth of a Nation'? Those films would certainly present messages and ideas that might open up minds of his students.

What profound liars these travelers are. Lie. Lie. Lie. English my *ss. Russian is more like it.

[ladylib]

Perhaps it would have been better if it was shown on "Current Events" day in history class.

I don't know what it has to do with English 101, however. English seems to be a catch-all subject today -- everything from sexual orientation to whatever.

Whatever happened to the Great Books?

[July 4th]

I don't know where the problem is. We are a school. This is a place where ideas are exchanged, right?

People always say things like this when there aren't any ideas actually being exchanged. They say it when one person is pushing some ideological piece of trash.

[O.C. - Old Cracker]

These queer-loving, tree-hugging, ballet-watching, Volvo-driving, Elton John-listening Marxists can't wait for our kids to get to college before they try to corrupt their minds. Someday, somewhere the father of a student is going to get his fill and lay a cudgel on the skull of one of these fifth columnists. Words of warning mean nothing to these rebellious mongrels.

[doug from upland]

Our phone number is...... (781) 477-7366

Our fax number is...... (781) 477-7365

[rimmont]

Michael Moore: A blubber-insulated food tube, producing noxious emissions from both ends.

[unixfox]

This is a place where ideas are exchanged, right?''

If those ideas are the "correct" ideas and not the "opinion" of a liberal/socialist/ teachers union indoctrinator.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

When I was in high school, we never saw Hollywood movies in the classroom. Why is that happening now? I think it's a combination of liberal indoctrination and teachers being too lazy or hung over to actually teach something. It's a lot easier to just sit the tykes in front of the TV and read a book.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

"This is a place where ideas are exchanged, right?"

Yeah, right. Try exchanging some politically conservative ideas and see how far you get. You'll probably get arrested or sued for a hate-crime.

[supercat]

''He stopped the movie and talked about it. I don't know where the problem is. We are a school. This is a place where ideas are exchanged, right?''

Actually, that could be good if he stopped it a few key points, like just before Charlton Heston's speech, and asked students to look closely at the curtain before which Heston was speaking.

[Texas_Jarhead]

not to mention that it severely distorts reality (see FrontPageMagazine.com)

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Rather than bloviating about "socialist indoctrination" and "reasons to homeschool", shouldn't this thread be about praising this principal for doing the right thing and giving needed support?