SFist: The Silent Scream Screened at Milpitas Middle School

bob loblaw

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:45:27 -0800

@ generati. heh! at a public school no less...mighta expected it from la reina, but t.o. high?? egads!

generati

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:23:19 -0800

When I was a senior in high school I had an American Political Systems (ie, Americna Gov't) teacher Mr. Hangar at Thousand Oaks High School who decided it was appropriate to show us the Christian Coalition's video titled "The Homosexual Agenda" (this was INSTEAD of playing video tapes of the Rush Limbaugh TV show.) This video portrayed homosexuals as perverts, child molesters, and even went so far as to describe the bacterial disease a person can get from sex acts like felching and snow balling. It was beyond the pale. And for me, just coming to terms completely with my sexuality it was a really low blow. I don't know what sort of adult thinks it is okay to show a class full of teenagers, some of whom are gay, a video on how EVIL a certain part of our population supposedly is. To me this man soiled his entire career with such a despicable act.

bob loblaw

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:01:08 -0800

"abortion" = "abortionist" sorry.

bob loblaw

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:00:41 -0800

mattymatt - your comment really upsets me. perhaps if the film were an unbiased look at what an abortion actually is (the removal of a fetus from a woman's uterus), you could potentially make the argument that it could be shown to high school students. but the film is TOTALLY anti-choice biased. the doctor states "we are going to watch a child being torn apart by the unfeeling instruments of the abortion." and what is the point of showing an abortion procedure except to make little anti-choice robots out of high school students? as manys points out, it's not like they show other painful, bloody surgeries to high school students.

A_Native_Son

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:31:32 -0800

Did Rachel Carson direct?

manys

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:21:25 -0800

Hey, guess what? A hip replacement is also an awfully messy, unpleasant affair.

bluecanary

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:50:29 -0800

Wow, and the parents in my hometown went apeshit when our stoner English teacher showed Pink Floyd's The Wall.

we_are_kevin

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:17:57 -0800

Wow. All we got was the Franco Zeffirelli "Romeo and Juliet" without the topless scene (and that was in Georgia.)

SACist

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:50:17 -0800

Um, so did the makers of this anti-abortion video, presumably themselves anti-abortion, pay and/or solicit a woman to have an abortion? And who gets the royalties?

Brock Keeling

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:49:43 -0800

you make a good point. i could see it being shown in health class or sex ed. it is, after all, a serious procedure.

mattymatt

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:46:02 -0800

No matter how pro-choice you are, you have to admit that an abortion can be an awfully messy, unpleasant affair; and I don't see any benefit in concealing that fact from high school students. Except, d'oh, why was it in a chemistry class? . Teachers are always being told to watch for "teachable moments," but this is one lesson that maybe should have been saved for some other time and place.