Saturday, May 12, 2007

'Brokeback Mountain' showing at grade school leads to lawsuit


Some people are born without common sense. Sadly, some of them wind up in charge of children, such as a moronic substitute teacher who filled in on one unforgettable day at a grade school on Chicago's Southwest Side.

From AP:

An eighth-grade girl and her grandparents have filed a lawsuit claiming a Chicago public school allowed a substitute teacher to show the movie "Brokeback Mountain" in class.

The Chicago Sun-Times reports on the suit in its Sunday editions.

Twelve-year-old Jessica Turner claims to have suffered psychological distress after seeing the R-rated film, in which two rugged Western men conceal a homosexual affair.

The girl and her grandparents, Kenneth and LaVerne Richardson, are seeking more than $400,000 in damages. The suit was filed yesterday against the Chicago Board of Education in Cook County Circuit Court.

The suit also claims the school's principal knew about the showing.

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