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[PolyChronic Time Girl]

California is one such state (well, I'm sure ALL the states) that imposes so many damn restrictions on teachers. What's worse is that the Governator of California seems to have a real vendetta against teachers.

One high school in California banned the book The Bean Trees because one parent raised a fuss, saying the trees in the book were phallic symbols I'm telling you, there is so much book-banning by parents who are illiterate and stupid(yet, these same parents have no problem with their kids watching R-Rated movies in their homes)...it's becoming a Nazi regime. You have so many of these bitchy soccer moms who have nothing else in their lives, and just want to issue control where they can. The stench of PC bullsh*t is so strong here.

When I was in high school, it was not a white-collar crime to show an R-Rated movie like it is now. The profession of teaching in the States is going down the toilet...we have a high teacher dropout rate and the admnistrators haven't got a f*ckin clue why it's happening and won't acknowledge the abuse the teachers get from administrator/students/parents.

Here's an article I found about the stresses of teaching. This is in England, but the U.S has the similiar problem. I would never in my right mind enroll in a teacher education program. In fact, I'll never consider teaching in the K-12 school system...I'd rather take a job shoveling fish guts.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/3573075.stm

[coolsage]

Bush, Pat Robertson, 'intelligent design', neocons, Cheney, Rummy; the pendulum in the America that I admire has swung too far. No smugness intended, but the country which produced the likes of me was not founded by 'Puritans'. The hypocrisy that now prevails in the Land of the Free (like it's the only one) will surely abate. It must; while the current administration has assumed a might-makes-right stance ('we don't torture, we outsource that'), choosing to ignore the fact that they are becoming increasingly reviled across the planet, there are growing numbers of Americans who have seen enough of this claptrap. I hope that all of us will see a lot less of the Bush dynasty and a lot more of people like Barack Obama. If America chooses not to become part of the dustbin of history (and all empires crumble eventually), it needs to reinvent itself soon.

[seoulkitchen]

[mishlert]

Plot Summary for
Europa Europa (1990)

A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war hero' and eventually becomes a Hitler Youth. Although improbabilities and happenstance are cornerstones of the film, it is based upon a true story.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099776/combined

[khyber]

[PolyChronic Time Girl]

[OiGirl]

[seoulkitchen]

Ewwwww.
Yeah, I wouldn't really want to be in a class room full of kids for that scene...

[Qinella]

When I was in 10th and 11th grade I had an English teacher who was really an oddball. He showed us a bizarre, black-and-white film about the Transcendentalists that featured one scene of some male poets frolicking naked in a pond. Yes, we all saw some gochu flopping about.

I'm pretty sure all of us told our parents, just because it was so funny. I think a few parents probably complained, as did mine, but nothing happened. The school told him not to show it anymore. End of story.

The funny thing is the teacher said he never even noticed the nudity when watching it. He was so caught up in the poetry reading and reenactment of his favorite literary period. Not sure if I buy that, though.

Q.

[waterbaby]

That movie was rated R???