Teacher Fired For Showing 'Simpsons' Movie

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Teacher fired for showing Simpsons Movie

NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- New Haven school officials have fired a substitute teacher for showing an alleged bootleg copy of "The Simpsons Movie" to third-, fourth- and fifth-graders.

School officials said they had warned 30-year-old Aquil Abdul-Salaam that the PG-13 rated film isn't appropriate for children.

Officials said Abdul-Salaam admitted showing the movie to students at Beecher School between mid-September and Oct. 4. Beecher School is for children in grades kindergarten through seventh grade.

The movie is rated as inappropriate for children under 13 and contains mild profanity, nudity and adult humor including scenes during which two male police officers share a kiss and the Bart character skateboards naked.

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/14375360/detail.html

[Ban Hammer 13,346]

far out man

[Jenn! 918]

[Jasman0717 9]

Haven't seen the movie but if it is rated PG-13 then it would have been appropriate to get parental permission.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Exhibiting a bootleg copy of a movie could land the guy in serious trouble if the FBI warnings preceding every commerical DVD are anything to go by. What is it - up to 5 years in jail and a $250,000 fine.

Next to that losing your job would seem to be a picnic...

Give it a few days for someone like Rush to seize on the guy's name and put together a spurious connection that naive/stupid teacher with bootleg movie = terrorist sympathiser.

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Give it a few days for someone like Rush to seize on the guy's name and put together a spurious connection that naive/stupid teacher with bootleg movie = terrorist sympathiser.

[Jamie76 0]

Exhibiting a bootleg copy of a movie could land the guy in serious trouble if the FBI warnings preceding every commerical DVD are anything to go by. What is it - up to 5 years in jail and a $250,000 fine.

Next to that losing your job would seem to be a picnic...

Give it a few days for someone like Rush to seize on the guy's name and put together a spurious connection that naive/stupid teacher with bootleg movie = terrorist sympathiser.

OK, that's a bit of a stretch there.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Exhibiting a bootleg copy of a movie could land the guy in serious trouble if the FBI warnings preceding every commerical DVD are anything to go by. What is it - up to 5 years in jail and a $250,000 fine.

Next to that losing your job would seem to be a picnic...

Give it a few days for someone like Rush to seize on the guy's name and put together a spurious connection that naive/stupid teacher with bootleg movie = terrorist sympathiser.

OK, that's a bit of a stretch there.

Probably - unless something emerges subsequently to 'fatten' the story (an immigration violation for instance).

The FBI via the MPIAA and RIAA already make that connection via copyright commercials to get turn people away from bootleg CDs and DVDs.