Culture Elementary school teacher who showed class 'To Kill a Mockingbird' suspended - A B.C. elementary school teacher has been suspended after showing his young students the movie 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'

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Actor Gregory Peck is seen as attorney Atticus Finch, a small-town Southern lawyer who defends a black man accused of rape, in a scene from "To Kill a Mockingbird."

VANCOUVER -- A B.C. elementary school teacher has been suspended after showing his young students the movie "To Kill a Mockingbird."

Andrew Michael Dennis was working in the Prince George school district when he screened the movie for his Grade 6/7 class back in September 2018, according to a consent resolution agreement published online this week by the B.C. Commissioner for Teacher Regulation.

Officials deemed the movie inappropriate for children of that age given that it deals with themes of sexual assault and racism, including the repeated use of racial slurs. It also had no relevance to the class's curriculum.

"In the B.C. curriculum, the book 'To Kill a Mockingbird' is listed as a secondary school-level resource for Grades 10 and higher," the commissioner wrote in the agreement.

That was just one of several incidents involving Dennis that prompted a reprimand from officials and a one-day suspension of his teaching certificate.

The same year, the elementary school teacher showed his students the movie adaptation of "The Hobbit" – which also had no part in the curriculum – and had them read the short story "The Lottery," which is normally taught to students in Grade 11 or 12.

The story is about a small town of Pagans who stone someone to death each year to ensure a good harvest. After reading the "The Lottery," Dennis also showed his class a short film adaptation and then had students participate in a dodgeball game inspired by the story.

"Specifically, students drew pieces of paper out of a hat and the students who drew a piece with a dot on it had dodgeballs thrown at them," according to the consent agreement.

The following year, the district also issued a letter of expectation after Dennis was working as a teacher on call and allowed several kindergarten students to wander the hallway unsupervised.

In all, the commissioner found Dennis had "failed to establish a positive learning environment by using material that was not age-appropriate," and did not "model appropriate behaviour expected of an educator."

On top of his suspension, he was ordered to complete a course at the Justice Institute of B.C.

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Wew lad.

 

[TurkishOreo]

The good guy in the book is a white man and it was written by a white woman. That's basically all it takes nowadays.

If only the teacher had showed them the movie where a neonazi curbstomps an afro-american.

 

[Bec]

To kill a mockbird is relitively bad and very overrated.
White guilt movies shouldnt be shown to kids.

 

[Brahma]

The good guy in the book is a white man and it was written by a white woman. That's basically all it takes nowadays.

Also wasn't there some controversy about the sequel to it she wrote a few years ago?

I seem to remember there being some kind of akchewwly she's been a racist all along thing on Twitter

 

[BobbyBriggs69420]

I was there when when we saw this in its full little-kid saying "niggerlover" glory, also tits in the old 60s romeo and juliet, it was quite a time to be white.

 

[Dark Edea]

Isn't To Kill A Mockingbird supposed to be like the definitive anti-racist novel of the 20th century? How did it end up on the woke shitlist?

I mean, I personally wouldn't show it to elementary school kids mainly because it's boring as shit and there are better films exploring similar themes but this is just silly.

I think Harper Lee made a sequel a few years back and Atticus Finch was a racist. Could be misremembering that... but who knows anymore?

My favorite class was 9th grade history because our teacher showed us stuff like Dr. Strangelove and Donald Duck in Nutzi Land. He also walked around in one of those helmets with the spike on it sometimes and brought in his Vietnam and Korean War souvenirs.

That was a great class. I actually learned stuff and it is part of the reason I have an interest in history. I have no doubt he would be fired and disavowed by today's standards.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

This is how literal bullying starts.

First it was 1984 and Animal Farm, and today it’s To Kill A Mockingbird.

Next it will be Catch-22, or something as ridiculous as reading Donald Trump’s “The Art of The Deal”.

Stop. Banning. Books. That. Only. You. Do. Not. Like. To. Read.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

Tbh, why have young kids read something that is meant to be read in High School?

I read it in junior high (as part of class) and "got it," but I don't remember if the other students did.

 

[Spit bucket]

I read this and shit like the boy in the striped pajamas in 5th grade. Fucking pussy's

 

[Troutsmacked]

Isn't To Kill A Mockingbird supposed to be like the definitive anti-racist novel of the 20th century? How did it end up on the woke shitlist?

Because woke friends don't know what context is, and don't bother to examine the actual work for any sense of context before they sound the racism alarm. They hear the word nigger and scream "CANCEL THIS RACIST FILTH!" It's the same reason The Adventures of Tom Sawyer has been getting shit on by the same sort of retards for the last 20 years.

 

[Enjoy_the_Soylence]

Im Sorry Americans, you arent the stupid ones anymore, Canada just beat you---

The woke American schools already banned it, along with Huck Finn.

 

[Shield Breaker]

Also wasn't there some controversy about the sequel to it she wrote a few years ago?

I seem to remember there being some kind of akchewwly she's been a racist all along thing on Twitter

I think Harper Lee made a sequel a few years back and Atticus Finch was a racist. Could be misremembering that... but who knows anymore?

My favorite class was 9th grade history because our teacher showed us stuff like Dr. Strangelove and Donald Duck in Nutzi Land. He also walked around in one of those helmets with the spike on it sometimes and brought in his Vietnam and Korean War souvenirs.

That was a great class. I actually learned stuff and it is part of the reason I have an interest in history. I have no doubt he would be fired and disavowed by today's standards.

It's not an actual sequel. When she was dying they took her rough draft and dressed it up as a sequel once her brain was gone enough for her to agree with it.

 

[Next Task]

It's not an actual sequel. When she was dying they took her rough draft and dressed it up as a sequel once her brain was gone enough for her to agree with it.

There was a reason it was only published after her death, after all. She didn't want it published at all.

I don't know. Showing To Kill A Mockingbird to Grade 6/7 kids should be fine. Having kids play a dodgeball version of The Lottery is a little sketchy, moreso the younger those kids are. If he showed them the newer Hobbit films, then he's just wasting everyone's time.

But I suspect the real problem, buried right at the end of the article after all the attention-grabbing culture war stuff, is that he let kindergarteners wander the halls unsupervised. In which case his punishment of being suspended for one day for the media stuff, but only reported for that the year before, becomes way more fucked up.

 

[Return of the Freaker]

Isn't To Kill A Mockingbird supposed to be like the definitive anti-racist novel of the 20th century? How did it end up on the woke shitlist?

I mean, I personally wouldn't show it to elementary school kids mainly because it's boring as shit and there are better films exploring similar themes but this is just silly.

Because they use the naughty nigger word and the Ewells are rape culture and might trigger people

 

[Don't Tread on Me]

So now showing classic literature to children is a fucking thought crime. Jesus fucking christ.

In all fairness, To Kill a Mockingbird is an American classic. That doesnt mean Canada feels the same way about it.

Canada's mainstream culture is not littered with n-words like ours is. In American middle and high school, you will literally hear black students refer to themselves and each other as niggas. The n-word is probably more shocking to Canadians despite them not having a real history of racism in their country. Same as why Trudeau unironically wore black face, there was no slavery there so who gives a shit.