School unhappy with teacher who showed Winnie the Pooh slasher film to fourth graders

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For family movie night the wife suggested “Kindergarten Cop”. At the time I don’t think either one of us had an in depth memory of the movie other than the general story and one liners. After reading the IMDB synopsis I asked her if she thought it was a good idea… Well the children (9 & 5) loved it. The end scene is Arnold basically blowing the bad guy away in an elementary school bathroom - and it’s not implied, it’s very visually direct.

My dad let me watch Aliens at 10. In his defense it was being aired on Fox so he thought it was be better than on HBO. I had nightmares for weeks.

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But that was a choice you made as a parent of two kids you knew well watching something with one or more safe and trusted adults. That is completely different.
The teacher couldn’t know all the students that well. They were at school, not at home. They didn’t have their most trusted adults with them. Trusted adults who would have turned the damned movie off when the kids started objecting.
While a few kids ages 9-10 might be able to handle or even enjoy a gory slasher flick with disturbing renditions of classically harmless characters, most would not.

This is not the same as watching something gory at home

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Oh for sure there are many people who have a similar experience. Usually it’s parents who don’t really give a shit. I went to school with many a kid like that. Some kids aren’t bothered/like it, and other have nightmares.

But anyway, personal parenting styles aside, that’s different than teaching a class and what is appropriate for that class.

It has nothing to do with how “soft” kids are. People were calling kids soft when you were a kid, nothing really changes.

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My fiance is watching the stupid movie right now. Idk if it’s suitable for 4th graders considering my 16 year olds wont watch it.

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Pretty sure these kids probably thought the film was similar to the popular franchise, FNAF.

My child was interested in FNAF as a small child. She is now 14 and wants nothing to do with it but loves slasher/scary movies without a lot of gore.

The teacher shouldn’t have shown the film, imo. It just wasn’t their call. Those kids are too young and as a kid who’d stay up late to watch horror movies, hiding it from my parent’s, only to have nightmares. I can say this some kids will be affected by the film, if not all

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When I was in grade school in the 70s we were shown actual slasher movies.

The whole don’t go with strangers was a thing but not the stranger danger cartoon stuff.

We saw actual crime scene photos of kids found in the woods. I wish someone would have stopped our school from terrorizing us.

And the don’t sniff airplane glue movies were just as graphic.

I’ve seen clips of the Winnie The Pooh slasher thing, it’s not appropriate for me right now.

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