That’s why the GOP exists. 
What was the movie, out of curiosity? How graphic was the scene?
There is no monopoly on stupidity. Or any purpose to arguing which side is MORE stupid. That’s like arguing over which woman is MORE pregnant. But at least pregnancy IS curable at some point.
R-rated? How graphic COULD it be? Even NC-17 doesn’t show penetration. Hell, R-rated is so tame that I even gave permission for my kids to check out R-rated movies from the video store when they were barely teenagers.
Otherwise, they’d have been the only kids never to have watched any of the Freddy Kruger movies. It sure isn’t like they never heard the wordy dirds in real life. Foul language on the school playground is worse than anything you’ll hear in my household.
Faculty where I work always hand out the class syllabus on the first day of class. The syllabus clearly states the course materials, requirements, and objectives. The films for the course should have been listed there.
Add/drop week is there so students can switch around their schedule. The student in the OP could have switched sections then.
That is getting more difficult to do with classes getting full so quickly and sections being cut.
Election.
It isn’t. The sex scenes hardly show anything, just people’s faces. It’s all implied. I think what bothered her were the lines “Fuck me, Mr. McAlister. Fuck me hard. Please?” (spoken by Reese Witherspoon’s character during Matthew Broderick’s fantasizing while making love to his wife)
I told a colleague what had happened, and he was stunned. He said his students have actually requested movies with sex scenes in them. 
I don’t know if he obliges. But I do know that he showed The King’s Speech. He didn’t even know it was rated R until I told him so and explained why (some F-bombs, mainly). He doesn’t go by the ratings when picking films.
I wonder if it would be a good idea to tweak the R rating system so it's more like what they do for TV shows--you know, D for suggestive dialogue, V for violence and so on. What do you folks think?I remember some other questionable dialog as well from that movie (one of my favorite movies) but I can’t even fathom a teen being offended by it. Plus, if she had watched it through to the end, she would have learned about other ways to deal with teachers you don’t agree with than to leave the class!
She emailed later to explain further that she has made a lifelong commitment never to watch an R-rated film. She also suggested politely (she is really a very nice person, if sheltered) that I could find other films with related themes that have “better ratings.” :dubious: If there are any, I would like to know what they are.
Might work. I had a friend Mormon friend from Utah whose mom would call the theater to ask why a film was R rated. If it was for violence, he could go. If it was for sexual content, he couldn’t.
Many reviews give the reasons for a particular rating, and I don’t think this would be hard to find on the web. I’d hope that a teacher planning to show a film would at least research it a bit. No, “The Devil in Miss Jones” is not about exorcism and appropriate for a theology class.
It’s odd because an R rating means the content is suitable not for children but for adults. So she’s committing herself to remaining in childhood. Maybe she’ll change once she discovers real-life sex.
What was the academic reason for watching Election? How does it fit into an English class? I don’t think of it in terms of literature. Does it illustrate a type of literary theme or something?
Trick her into watching The King’s Speech and then tell her afterward it was R-rated.
For all that is good and holy, DO NOT do this! She will go to the dean, tell them she was misled and you will SOL.
I remember watching films with nudity in them in HS. Besides the health education stuff (& accompanying STS slideshow). In English we watched Zeffirelli’s version of Romeo & Juliet. Our English teacher paniced a bit during the nude scene and held up a single, white sheet of paper to the screen (which hid nothing). :dubious: Afterward she reminded us that they did not have sex until after they were married. In social studies class we watched a documentary on the Vietnam War that alot of candid footage of soliders’ daily lives. Including full frontal nudity from a group of enlisted men using an outdoor shower and generally hanging out in barracks naked. There some giggles, but our teacher just told everybody to “grow up”. The token “Christian girl” was sitting next to me and widening her eyes and leaning forward to see better. And of course the documentaries on the Holocaust we watched had graphic nudity in them (including dead bodies of all ages).
I’ve made a lifelong commitment to not pick my toes in Poughkeepsi. So what does that have to do with anything? Myself, or anyone else? I mean, what, the whole world should pay attention to my personal selection of lifelong commitments?
I don’t know if this is why vivalostwages is using the movie, but Election is an adaptation of a novel of the same name by Tom Perrotta.
Aha. I’ll have to read it. I hope it isn’t rated R.
I’d seriously suggest she transfer to BYU and to a different major. She may want to move to a small town in Utah where there is less influence by the “outside” world.
She can start out as “Junior wife #3.”