Spider2024
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Post by Spider2024 on May 1, 2020 18:32:49 GMT -5
I was also in 7th. Several classrooms (my elementary school was also predominantly black) aired the verdict the day. Even the principal turned on the intercom to announce that OJ had been found not guilty. My social studies teacher just silently walked into the room and wrote “OJ free” on the whiteboard. It confused a few kids. "Can I have some apple juice instead?"
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on May 1, 2020 19:29:55 GMT -5
My social studies teacher just silently walked into the room and wrote “OJ free” on the whiteboard. It confused a few kids. "Can I have some apple juice instead?" It was grade 7 or 8....may still have gone down like that.
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Post by Hassan bin Sober on May 1, 2020 20:10:11 GMT -5
We watched Michael Jackson's "MoonWalker" in 2nd grade. It got really awkward during the "Smooth Criminal" scene where everyone is moaning like they are in a porno.
In 7th grade our social studies teacher thought it appropriate to show us the Ray Stevens video "Ahab the Arab" because we were learning about Arab culture.
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on May 1, 2020 20:26:31 GMT -5
Mel Gibson’s The Patriot in my literature class, and it wasn’t even from a substitute. Just our regular teacher but she had fallen behind on grading some papers, I guess.
Also, they had all us seventh and eighth graders watch big projections of Grease and the Evita movie in the auditorium.
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Post by prettynami on May 1, 2020 21:06:43 GMT -5
In Junior High the entire school watched Gettysburg - that is a tall task to ask a bunch of kids to sit through (even though I loved that movie as a kid). Then the whole school watched Star Trek IV in the auditorium as well! One of my brother's classes took a field trip to see In The Army Now with Pauly Shore... hahahahaha. Granted I would have loved to have seen that since it had Lori Petty in it. I also saw a weird movie on a field trip once, the Super Mario Brothers movie... Damn there were a lot of disappointed kids coming out of that one.
In High School a teacher randomly put on Se7en. I believe they didn't know what it was cause I remember them turning it off at the first murder. In an anthropology class in high school we watched The Gods Must Be Crazy, which while a movie that has anthropology aspects to it is still a weird enough movie on its own.
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Post by Shark on May 1, 2020 21:59:32 GMT -5
In college when I was working on the literary magazine, we decided to hold a film festival and the student who was helping us out with it started showing us some clips from some films to kind of get us into thinking about what to look for when judging the films. We saw the opening of The Departed, the rave scene from Matrix Reloaded, and then he made us watch Enter The Void which is just the most pretentious piece of crap I've ever watching in my life.
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Post by Rave on May 1, 2020 22:41:30 GMT -5
So back in high school, I had a rather pointless class. Thanks to the regular teacher going on maternity leave, we had a student teacher sub for that semester. I've mentioned this guy before on here, he was the one who bashed his head open on tile floor after botching a standing backflip.
Well, this guy got the bright idea to show the class Requiem For a Dream. In full. No fast forwarding. I don't know how he got away with it, it had absolutely nothing to do with the class. Apparently he told folks it was PG-13. There is no PG-13 cut of that movie.
I took a Books To Film class one year, among the movies I saw in that class were Misery and the Godfather trilogy. Don't think a damn thing from any of those was fast forwarded. Teacher was a bit of a sadist, that was the class before lunch so we'd leave off on especially gruesome bits of Misery and he'd wish us a happy lunch.
We covered The Scarlet Letter in another English class, but unfortunately the good bits were fast forwarded.
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