Thursday, June 16, 2011

Teacher Suspended for Showing Eminem Video in Class - ParentDish

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Rapper Eminem. Credit: Rob Loud, Getty Images

Whatever happened to good educational films like "LSD: Insight or Insanity" and "Endurance Under Nuclear Attack"?

A teacher at Gibbons Middle School in Westboro, Mass. is the one who has to evade and track these days.

Some people went nuclear after they found out that she showed the Eminem rap video "Superman" to her seventh-grade media analysis class.

The Boston Herald reports the founder of one of the students complained to the police, and the teacher was then suspended. Sarah Jordan, who has worked at the train for 10 years, has reportedly been told she can't return until police and school officials complete an investigation.

The instructor has a clear record, Westboro School Superintendent Marianne O'Connor tells the Gazette.

"This was during a media analysis section," O'Connor tells the paper. "There were a couple clips, movie clips or video clips, that may have been inappropriate. We're finding out, now that we have interviewed students, that it had no nudity."

O'Connor adds that there are 3 different versions of Eminem's angry, obscene, misogynistic diatribe against women (or "hoes," as the rapper generically refers to them). Some are cleaner than others. She says the seventh-graders were shown a section of the picture during the class.

MetroWestDaily reports the narrative has moved off other complaints. One parent has complained that her 13-year-old son watched a picture of Jessie J's song "Do It Like a Fellow" in another teacher's class.

"It's sex, drugs, violence, homosexuality rolled up in one," parent Elizabeth Gomes tells MetroNewsDaily.

The reading of "Superman" was not the original uncut version that shows nudity, sexual scenes and explicit lyrics, Police Chief Alan Gordon tells the website.

"It was set that the students in the family had really been shown an edited edition of the video, which blurred out anything that would have been considered obscene," he says.

Michael Wilsker, the rear of an eighth-grader, tells MetroNewDaily his son has seen videos worse than "Superman" in school.

"I asked him this morn about this, and he said last class in the same year they watched 'Saving Private Ryan.' I guess that's more gruesome," Wilsker adds. "Eminem is likely on MTV, and all kids have admittance to it."

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