not familiar with the movie but broadly speaking I wouldn't be happy and would speak with the teacher
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With the movie being edited, is it still an R movie? Does the edited version come with a different rating?
I have a 5th grader and it would bother me. I have a hang up with movies in general being shown in school. I just think there are better ways to reward kids.
Ratings just can't reveal everything about a movie. My first grader was so upset by a g-rated movie last year he left the classroom.
I would be perturbed that school showed an R rated movie to my child without permission. A separate issue is the teacher thinking the Patriot has any historical value. Sounds like a whole big bunch of bad judgment from that teacher. And yes, I would say something.
I completely agree with this assessment. I don't recall seeing Glory in jr. high (SnuggleBuggles and I are the same age), but I know my brother did and he is 3 yrs. younger so was in jr. high from 92-95.
OP I honestly had to look up The Patriot to see it was rated R, I thought it was PG-13.
I think that the movie rating system in general is grossly conservative these days. Many rated PG movies really should be G (the Shrek series comes to mind, which I think is a much more kid friendly choice than say Toy Story 3, both movies are PG, but IMHO Toy Story 3 was the more adult movie of the two). I am sure I can argue the same with PG-13 and R rated movies as well, there are some PG and PG-13 movies that should have been R, but a lot of historical movies which are R simply because they are about the truth of war.
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I think you should share this your child's teacher:
http://www.studythepast.com/patriotreview.pdf
Pissed. DS is in 5th grade and that level of violence would upset him, despite his interest in military history. He is beginning to personalize (internalize?) what he reads/sees, and while this is important to his growth as a person, he's more sensitive now than when he was when younger. Kids know by 5th grade that life is not all rainbows and butterflies but how deeply we push the issue is something I am struggling with.
eta: I was disturbed by that movie and images from it "haunt" me, specifically those the teacher showed.
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