Anonymous wrote:My kid's Spanish teacher shows them movies....in English. I would be totally fine if she was showing movies dubbed in Spanish, but no, English. Like Harry Potter! WTF???

Maybe she can't get the Spanish version through the school wifi?

My kid's Spanish teacher shows them movies....in English. I would be totally fine if she was showing movies dubbed in Spanish, but no, English. Like Harry Potter! WTF???

I don’t know one ES class that is watching movies this week.

Anonymous wrote:My middle schoolers said they didn’t do anything productive today. They just watched movies.

Mine didn’t watch movies, but they did say it was a catch-up day.

This post seems like some parent has a lot of free time on their hands to complain about teachers

Anonymous wrote:My middle schoolers said they didn’t do anything productive today. They just watched movies.

Teachers doing this only enhance the hypocrisy.

My middle schoolers said they didn’t do anything productive today. They just watched movies.

Anonymous wrote:I'm a HS foreign language teacher who used to show movies to enhance the curriculum. It used to be fun while the students learned something! But I haven't shown a movie in a few years because no foreign language movie seems to hold as much interest as the instant gratification they get from their phones. Sigh.

Yes! A few times I've tried showing clips from videos (like 3-5 minutes) because they show a concept we are covering in my AP course. I'm shocked that once the video starts, 2/3 of heads go down to stare at their phones.

I haven't shown a movie since we used to have half days the day before winter break, I'd have iffy attendance, and a compressed schedule. No one watched it then anyway.

I know a handful of English teachers show the film after they finish reading the novel or play, but even that is falling by the wayside.

I'm a HS foreign language teacher who used to show movies to enhance the curriculum. It used to be fun while the students learned something! But I haven't shown a movie in a few years because no foreign language movie seems to hold as much interest as the instant gratification they get from their phones. Sigh.

I’m an ES teacher. I haven’t shown a movie in years. We used to show one the last day before winter break or perhaps the last day of school, but I don’t know anyone who does that anymore.

The only year my kid really enjoyed movies in class was this year, as a senior: his schedule is mostly all AP classes, but he has a Philosophy and a Sociology class where occasionally the teachers show movies as a springboard to further discussion of concepts. It's a relaxing yet vaguely on-topic way to balance his more serious coursework. Last movie was Minority Report to discuss self-determination.

In previous grades, my kids would rather have gone home, or done something else, like chat with their friends.

I am a teacher. I would ask the principal what the school policy. As an elementary teacher, the class sometimes earned a movie, but not a full-length one, and I was able to get a ton of work done during the movie. Movies have to be on an approved list somewhere, but most teachers don’t know how to access the list.

is today a movie day? because my 8th grader just requested the Dinsey+ passcode

Are you thankful for movies in the classroom? Do we need to extend the school year because of movie days?
Sure, let’s bring the popcorn, keep calm, and study on. It takes lots of training days to choose movies for students in ES and SS.