Posted on 03/23/2011 9:01:00 AM PDT by Mary Kochan
In most high schools, drugs, drinking, profanity and promiscuity pose significant challenges. Sadly these challenges now likewise present themselves in our diocesan high schools today. Studies show that teens exposed to R-rated movies become more likely to engage in smoking, drinking, drugs and promiscuity....
(Excerpt) Read more at catholiclane.com ...
In Public School they might use X rated films as sex-ed and hand out condoms. Plus they have sex clubs like Gay-Straight Alliance...
sickening
When I was in Catholic school we’d watch movies like Abbott and Costello or Roy Rogers. And the Nuns smacked us with a ruler if we got out of hand. We learned our multiplication tables and our penmanship was good and we said the Pledge of Alleigiance every morning and .........
It depends what the R rating is for, yet it should be emphasized that a superior movie getting an R rating for the use of a bad word, or because of the smoking of a cigarette, is a far cry from a movie with gratuitous nudity and sex, or one with an appalling level of graphic violence.
Likewise, Catholic schools should also restrict movies that are ardently anti-Catholic, or promote the belief systems of other religions, pagan or involving witchcraft or are otherwise inappropriate content for a Catholic religious education.
And if they do not have the judgment to determine what is unacceptable, they should not be teaching children.
You are correct, GeronL, but just because we aren’t as bad is not a consolation, I don’t think. Most of this stuff is flying under the radar of overwhelmed and busy parents. In may cases the school staff consdier themselves superior guides for the kids over the parents. This is just the first of a series of documents we are going to be posting about stuff going on in Catholic schools.
Don’t worry, I approve of any and all efforts to improve private education!
True movies should not be played at school. However, in grade school (Catholic) at Christmas time we had a party the day before Christmas Break and that was a movie and junk food day. We say That Darn Cat the one year and Herby the Love Bug one year and I can’t think of the others but I was there for 8 years (1st through 8th). Now they are showing The Breakfast Club....not a horrible movie but probably should not be shown at school. It is pretty dated movie so I am surprised that they would show it. They could have shown Ferris Bueller if they wanted to show a school themed movie that was funny. In high school, my government class (again Catholic High School) they showed us Legal Eagles which was a movie on law. It was ok but not particularly memorable.
I don’t remember if I was a Junior or Senior, but one of the choices for that year’s Enrichment Day was to see GREASE on Broadway. Poor Sr. Miriam and Sr. Dorothy, we all think they thought it was going to be about Greece! I graduated in ‘78.
With that said, it is an excellent article.
The list of acceptable movies is wonderful, so many of them are on my favorites list. My home parish and elementary school were St. Therese of Lisieux and my confirmation name is Bernadette.
Great article! Thanks!
I have a 4 yr old who will be entering Catholic school in kindergarten. I will be keeping my eyes open for funny business like this.
Please do keep your eyes open. Many parents today who send their children to Catholic school expect it to be the way it was for them.
I spent 12 years in Catholic school, in the 1950s-1960s, and I received an excellent education from the Franciscan Sisters of Glenriddle. Those sisters not only taught us academic subjects, but they also reinforced our parents’ moral teachings and behavior codes, and they kept a tight rein on our adolescent shenanigans in high school.
Today’s Catholic schools are often run by lay leftists, who interpret Catholic teaching to suit their warped world view. There are few teaching sisters these days, and, unfortunately, having a sister teaching your child does not guarantee orthodoxy in the classroom, as some of the orders have been overrun by leftist philosophies. My beloved Franciscans, e.g., have morphed into a “social justice” crowd.
I sent all 4 of my children to Catholic schools and I taught in Catholic schools for over 20 years. The changes that I witnessed were heartbreaking.
Amazing movies left OFF the list of great movies:
The Song of Bernadette (best of the set)
Quo Vadis
The Robe
Strange reason for concurring with leaving a movie off the list:
Ben Hur. The movie would’ve been “R” in the 70s or 80s. MAYBE it could pass with a “PG-13.” Not only does it feature footage of an actual on-screen death (it’s not an urban legend, but it’s not the scene most people think it is), it features full nudity, which apparently slipped in under the strangely racist “National Geographic” rule (”that doesn’t count as nudity because they’re Africans”). Never mind that the purpose of the dance is eroticism.
There must be an edited version out there, however.
Thank you, dangus, I want to expand this list so it can be a resource, with the hopes that offering enough good alternatives will leave teachers w/o excuse.
But I don't think they would understand the message -- that God is gravely offended these days. Our Lady of Fatima tried to warn about this at Fatima in 1917... That is now almost a hundred years ago...
Sigh. I guess I entered high school about 50 years too soon. But we did sneak into horror movies at the nearby cinema whose manager was rather lax.
I’ve been saying ‘Go to hell’ to quite a few people and entities today and will add these Catholic Schools to the list. I am Catholic.
You are SO right! If you grew up attending Catholic schools in the 60s you remember a world long gone. I sent (and paid for) my own kids to my old schools and was amazed at how secular they had become, with creepy liberal opinions the norm. I asked a teacher who was there through the transition (mid-late 70s) and she told me that forced bussing was the culprit.
Waiting lists surged for Catholic schools, so tuition climbed with the market. Non Catholic parents with money nudged out local Catholics. I can’t really blame the parents, it was local Catholic school or distant dangerous school for their kids (some choice!). Suddenly they had majority non-Catholic students and “had to” assuage non-Catholic parents fears. Out went religion.
****The Song of Bernadette (best of the set)
Quo Vadis
The Robe
Strange reason for concurring with leaving a movie off the list:
Ben Hur. The movie would’ve been “R” in the 70s or 80s. MAYBE it could pass with a “PG-13.” ***
If you are going to show THE ROBE you might as well show the sequel DEMETRIUS AND THE GLADIATORS.
As for BEN HUR, if you want nudity, watch the silent version with Ramon Navarro. Look closely at the triumphal march after the defeat of the pirates. The chariot race equals the one with Charlton Heston.
Is that a movie recommendation? I hadn’t known of it.
(Say, do you like gladiator movies?)
(Sorry, I couldn’t help it.)
(Say, do you like gladiator movies?)
(Sorry, I couldn’t help it.)
LOL
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