Teacher reportedly told his students, 'This will be your first horror film,' before playing tape of 2004 shocker
A teacher in France has been suspended after screening the horror film Saw for a class of 11-year-olds.
Radio network Europe 1 reports that the unnamed teacher told his students: "This will be your first horror film." One pupil arrived home looking distinctly uncomfortable, according to a separate report on the French news site The Local.
"He returned from school on Monday evening, visibly in some discomfort, not well," said the father. "I asked him and he told me his maths teacher had shown them a horror film during class. At the moment the teachers are having staff meetings and parent-teacher meetings, so their classes are cut short and interrupted a bit."
The father subsequently brought the issue up with the school authorities.
The teacher was suspended on Tuesday while the school carried out an investigation,...
A teacher in France has been suspended after screening the horror film Saw for a class of 11-year-olds.
Radio network Europe 1 reports that the unnamed teacher told his students: "This will be your first horror film." One pupil arrived home looking distinctly uncomfortable, according to a separate report on the French news site The Local.
"He returned from school on Monday evening, visibly in some discomfort, not well," said the father. "I asked him and he told me his maths teacher had shown them a horror film during class. At the moment the teachers are having staff meetings and parent-teacher meetings, so their classes are cut short and interrupted a bit."
The father subsequently brought the issue up with the school authorities.
The teacher was suspended on Tuesday while the school carried out an investigation,...
- 6/13/2013
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
Most horror fans I know vividly remember the adult who introduced them into the genre's twisted delights. A parents who held their hand through Gremlins. A babysitter who made popcorn for Nightmare on Elm Street. A cousin who gleefully screened Child's Play then commented how similar Chucky looked to your "My Buddy" doll. Well, for a batch of 11-year-olds outside Paris, that adult was a foolish math teacher. The Local (via ScreenCrush) reports math teacher Jean-Baptiste Clément is now in hot water after screening the gruesome and graphic horror movie Saw to a sixth grade class. What the hell does torture porn have to do with math, you might ask? Well, the grade school in the northwestern suburbs of Paris was in the midst of staff meetings and parent-teacher meetings that had run havoc on their scheduled classes. So, you know how some teachers might show a movie rather ...
- 6/12/2013
- cinemablend.com
A class of sixth graders at a school in Colombes, France received quite a nightmarish shock on Monday: a screening of the R-rated horror film "Saw."
A middle-school math teacher has been suspended after he reportedly screened the 2004 film for his students, according to French radio network Europe 1.
"This will be your first horror film," Jean-Baptiste Clément allegedly told the class.
An investigation is underway to determine whether more serious punishment is merited, but for now Clément's suspension only lasted one day.
For at least one student in the class, "Saw" may mark his last horror film as well. The boy's father said the 11-year-old was clearly shaken upon returning home after viewing the movie.
“He returned from school on Monday evening, visibly in some discomfort, not well. I asked him and he told me his maths teacher had shown them a horror film during class,” he reportedly told Europe 1. "At the moment,...
A middle-school math teacher has been suspended after he reportedly screened the 2004 film for his students, according to French radio network Europe 1.
"This will be your first horror film," Jean-Baptiste Clément allegedly told the class.
An investigation is underway to determine whether more serious punishment is merited, but for now Clément's suspension only lasted one day.
For at least one student in the class, "Saw" may mark his last horror film as well. The boy's father said the 11-year-old was clearly shaken upon returning home after viewing the movie.
“He returned from school on Monday evening, visibly in some discomfort, not well. I asked him and he told me his maths teacher had shown them a horror film during class,” he reportedly told Europe 1. "At the moment,...
- 6/12/2013
- by Matthew Jacobs
- Huffington Post
Knowing that all young people must be inoculated against incurable ennui, a sixth-grade teacher in France apparently sought to educate his charges in the empty cruelties of life with a screening of Saw, the film that reimagines Jean Paul-Sartre’s No Exit with more mutilation. “This will be your first horror film," Jean-Baptiste Clément reportedly said to his students, presumably meaning that it would also be their first introduction to the horrors of existence—an unfathomable situation in which “free will” is merely the ability to decide how and when you will die, and where the tortures inflicted upon ...
- 6/11/2013
- avclub.com
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