Appropriate for the classroom?


I would like to show this film to my 9th grade geography class. A smart filter dvd player should filter out most, if not all, of the cuss words. Do you feel that the rest of the content is too graphic for this age group?

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>>Just try and do your job as an educator and take time to discuss the consequences of these people's actions for ignoring the warnings, and putting their families at risk.
If you're just one more liberal teacher trying to paint the American people and government in a bad light, they won't learn a single life skill.
If they learn a lesson as to what happens when you don't evacuate in the path of an oncoming hurricane, you'll be doing more good than just one more liberal teacher in the public education system.
Sorry if that hurts your feelings...but my money pays your salary, so as long as you're sucking off the government tit and teaching our kids, you get to catch criticism from the taxpayers.<<


An educator asking someone like this for intelligent advice would be akin to asking a fish how to fly.

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I would say that this is an important series to watch. You might want to get some waivers signed or something.

Despite what another poster says above, your students stand to learn a lot more from the people that were there than they would from the books.

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>>I would say that this is an important series to watch. You might want to get some waivers signed or something.

Despite what another poster says above, your students stand to learn a lot more from the people that were there than they would from the books.<<

...if hearing four hours of people blaming others for a disaster that was expected and they didn't plan for is learning, I'd say that's a good choice.

If learning how to avoid a disaster in the future such as this is important...look elsewhere.

At the same time, you might point out that more N.O. natives have killed each other since Katrina than the storm did itself, or that New Orleans has one of the highest rates of murder in the United States.

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Revisit gftbiloxi's posting. Move on. New Orleans seems to be doing better than you already.

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You certainly found the right screen name.

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>>You certainly found the right screen name.<<<

Sorry, but you're about the 68th person to use that "insult."




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it wasn't till now that I realized you are a woman. A housewife no doubt, with plenty of time and the necessity to exert your opinions where you can to make sure that you don't feel your education's gone to waste...

I guess we can give you a pass if it will keep you from killing yourself.

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>>it wasn't till now that I realized you are a woman. A housewife no doubt, with plenty of time and the necessity to exert your opinions where you can to make sure that you don't feel your education's gone to waste...

I guess we can give you a pass if it will keep you from killing yourself.<<

Is this more of the adult "dialogue" you pride yourself on so much?

I'm male, by the way.

Oh, nice job of insulting women who choose to stay at home and run the household or take on the monumental task of raising children.

Would you prefer that all children be sent to daycare while both parents work, to the tune of about $500.00 per child per month?

I'd love to hear more (as do some of the female members of this board, I'm sure) of just why it's so degrading for them to be "housewives."

In any case, I'm having a great time watching you loose your cool and use the "shotgun approach" to making insults.

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>>Not by a long shot. It would be great, and highly appropriate for educational purposes<<

Actually, this would be an excellent time to show it in the classroom, what with the current flooding that's taking place elsewhere.

On one hand, you have the current flood victims who are all pitching in together, as compared to the residents of New Orleans who have been conditioned to have other people do it for them.

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>>It would be great, and highly appropriate for educational purposes.<<

Great way for students to learn what "media bias" is.

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>>>All children should have to watch this film so they can understand just how sh*tty a president Bush is (was).<<<

...Bush defeated two senior members of the Democratic Party, one of which was a vice President for eight years...

...makes you wonder how stupid Gore and Kerry were...

...Hussein Obama's popularity continues to decrease as more about his past comes to light, and Rev..Jackson wants to cut his balls off...that iis..when Rev. isn't calling Hussein Obama the "n" word.

I always thought this was a great film to show kids as an example of what happpens to a city with 1/3 of its people depending on the government for a couple of generations for their money,food,housing.

You wind up with sheep who are no longer able to think for themselves.


If you took thhe same "victims" and placed them in rural America a couple of generations back or so, they'd have been raised with life skills that would have given them the common sense to do what the people of the Miidwest did recently.


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It depends on the racial makeup of your class. If they're predominately white I'd suggest you don't show it. They'll find a million excuses to not see the truth behind Lee's message anyway.

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>>It depends on the racial makeup of your class. If they're predominately white I'd suggest you don't show it. They'll find a million excuses to not see the truth behind Lee's message anyway. <<

More than likely, they'll just be smart enough to see it as a biased piece of entertainment with an agenda.

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I'd suggest watching it with the "critical thinking" caps engaged. And in a shortened version if possible. There's a lot of food for discussion and debate.

One point that was conspicuous by its absence is: why permit (and enable, by maintaining levees) people to live in naturally flood-prone areas?

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>>I'd suggest watching it with the "critical thinking" caps engaged. And in a shortened version if possible. There's a lot of food for discussion and debate.

One point that was conspicuous by its absence is: why permit (and enable, by maintaining levees) people to live in naturally flood-prone areas?<<<

I think it all goes back to, "It's always been done that way."

I don't feel much sympathy for people who build homes on hillsides in California that are prone to wash away, or on the San Andreas Fault.

One of the arguments you'll probably get from here is that they couldn't afford to live anywhere else.

I'll let someone else Google it, but it was shown to be less expensive to buy people new homes who lived in flood prone New Orleans than to continue to maintain it and repair it.

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I would love to show this in a classroom setting but definately have to get waivers signed. Not just for the cussing (never even heard of a smart filter DVD player) but because of the graphic images of dead bodies.

As for people saying if you are going to teach this then yes but if you are going to teach that then no in terms of if you are going to teach it as politics vs politics or what to do before a hurricane.......do none of that.
Part of the education process with high schoolers is to help them think for themselves. After the movie let them reach their own conclusions. Write it out, writing exercises, essays etc., then have a class debate/discussion regarding those conclusions. Remember they have to back up those conclusions, causing them to expand beyond the normal finger pointing.

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One point that was conspicuous by its absence is: why permit (and enable, by maintaining levees) people to live in naturally flood-prone areas?
Would you ask this question of people who live in the Netherlands? Sixty-five percent of Holland is below sea level.

Evacuate them? Or learn from their engineering?




last 2 dvds: Kynodontas (2009) & Des hommes et des dieux (2010)

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Hell no. Why would you want to show a slew of racist liberal propaganda in a classroom?

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