Math Teacher Gets in Trouble for Screening "Saw" to 11-Year-Olds during Class

[JamesG]

French Teacher Shows Pupils Horror Film Saw
11 Jun 2013


Jean-Baptiste Clément, a math teacher at a college in Colombes, near Paris, is alleged to have shown a class full of 11-year-old pupils the infamously gruesome horror movie Saw, on Monday.

Clément told the children: “This will be your first horror film,” according to French radio Europe 1.





According to a father of one of the pupils at the school in Hautes-de-Seine, in the north-western suburbs of Paris, he first discovered the extraordinary screening when his young son came home from school.

“He returned from school on Monday evening, visibly in some discomfort, not well. I asked him and he told me his math teacher had shown them a horror film during class,” he told Europe 1.

“At the moment the teachers are having staff meetings and parent-teacher meetings, so their classes are cut short and interrupted a bit,” he added.

At that point the boy’s father contacted the school’s management to complain.





Clément was called to a disciplinary meeting on Tuesday morning, before being given a one-day suspension from teaching, according to Jean-François Launay from the Federation of Students’ Parents Councils.

“We’re in the process of seeing what sort of legal measures we might be able to take in this case,” he added, noting that the school had launched its own formal inquiry into the incident.





Saw, a 2004 film directed by Australian James Wan, revolves around a group of people trapped in a sadistic ‘game,’ whereby they are forced to kill each other by horrific and graphically-depicted means.

Aside from being rated for 16, 17 or 18-year-olds in different countries, Saw is one of the most notoriously violent films of modern times, and has been labelled as part of a cinematic movement known as “torture porn”.





Monday’s incident is not the first instance of outrageous behavior by a teacher in France in recent months.

In May, The Local reported how a teacher in the southern city of Montpellier found herself in a spot of bother after using a swastika to teach geometry to a group primary school pupils.

In February, a teacher in northern France was investigated for giving her class the assignment of writing their own suicide letter.

http://www.thelocal.fr/20130611/fren...orror-film-saw

[Vahan]

Seems there have been funny stories of people getting in trouble for accidentally screening horror films in schools. Probably not the first time, and also probably won't be the last.

I remember reading a thread here a few years back there was a story about how the kids in a theater here in the states were waiting for a kids film to start, but the theater accidentally showed a horror film (forgot the name of it) for the first few minutes.

[Tubehead]

I knew this group school kids went to see a cartoon then the movie had cussing and nudity In it

[HuntingtonM15]

Originally Posted by Vahan

I remember reading a thread here a few years back there was a story about how the kids in a theater here in the states were waiting for a kids film to start, but the theater accidentally showed a horror film (forgot the name of it) for the first few minutes.

I recall that as well, but I believe it was another story of a school showing a film, and instead of it being a clip of a horror film playing, I believe it was a clip from a pornographic film.