Well you're in luck. In middle school journalism class kids are only allowed to review G-rated movies in MCPS.

Resurrecting this thread because we're dealing with this now.

I am not the type of parent to balk at movies or tv in school. But when my kid comes home upset and out of sorts at bedtime because of movies being shown in school, I go full-on mama bear.

There are SO MANY things to show kids 1st grade and under that are not emotional or touchy or upsetting. Any PBS kids show, Magic School Bus, Paw Patrol, etc... To suggest anything else is just lazy.

I am in the notify if PG and under 7 camp. Solidly.

Anonymous wrote:what else do you expect them to do on stupid freaking lockdown days...

So, there are two different kinds of lockdown. The kind where things are silent, in which case a movie is out, and the kind where you're moving around the building but just can't go out. In the latter case, you continue instruction, and have an indoor recess where the kids play games or draw or read or talk with friends, or maybe watch a short educational film related to the curriculum.

what else do you expect them to do on stupid freaking lockdown days...

OP -- what was the movie!!!????

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I don't think they should be showing movies if not for educational purposes in school.

Especially in younger grades. I'm 7:55 but one of my kids was terrified by disney movies until she was 10. And she was not a sheltered kid, but an anxious one. Real life scary things were not as bad as the super tense moments in the movie with soundtrack. in 1st of 2nd grade she would not return to a summer program that showed movies at lunch. With so many good kid tv shows on dvd, I wonder why they don't show those to the youngest kids.

MCPS has an approved movie list - maybe you can look at it if you are there and highlight for the teacher any you think might be an issue.? In general I probably would have asked the teacher to talk about movies with me so we could plan what to do with my child if they wouldn't be able to cope with the particular movie choice.

my son's first grade class watched a movie that kept him awake and made him insist on sleeping in our bed because he was so scared to go to sleep.

It wasn't a super scary movie (I think the other kids were fine with it) but some kids are more sensitive, and I don't appreciate them showing movies at school. (I didn't complain, though, since it would be fruitless and the teacher was a very good teacher otherwise.)

Anonymous wrote:I am really surprised at some of the responses here. So some of you really don't let your kids watch anything but G movies until they are 8 yrs old?

Really? I'm surprised more parents don't do this, especially in this region of super-parenting. I'm very aware of the negative effect of most media on kids and in general wish more parents were.

recently I have noticed a trend that movies that years ago would have been given a G rating are now called PG (for marketing reasons.) It does a disservice to people that use the ratings as a guide, and means most kid-appropriate movies are no longer in the G category and instead we have to look a reviews for each movie on a case by case basis and figure out if it's really PG or not. Rating alone would not tell me if a movie at school was ok or not.

I am really surprised at some of the responses here. So some of you really don't let your kids watch anything but G movies until they are 8 yrs old?