Would it bother you if school showed a movie with a rating above your child's age?

[Keremy]

DC1 ended up in school in a mixed year group due to an event just before Christmas.

The children involved were year 8 to 10 so 12 to 15. The teacher was aware of the kids ages.

Dc1 had been asking to watch a film and as it was three years above their age range I refused. They have seen 12s at 11 and stuff so I'm not a total fuddy duddy but I think it is entirely dependent on the film.

Anyway dc came home saying they had watched this film and I have just checked with another parent and it is true.

As a teacher, I never show a movie with a rating above the age of the children. As a Mum, I don't mind as long as discretion is used. My two sons watched all the Harry Potters before they were officially old enough and they're hardly a problem.

Oops I missed the OP's update too.

The actual film it was sounds fine then.

If a film has a rating there will be some scenes that some children under the age suggested may find upsetting. A teacher, particularly if a mixed group ie: children not in their normal class, is not necessarily going to be aware of all the needs/foibles/confidential background of all of the underage children in the room. As a parent, I would want to be asked so I could veto if I thought the content might adversely affect my child. After all, it's me, the parent, who has to deal with the consequences (nightmares/wet beds/bad behaviour/etc)

Which particular movie it is, is irrelevant, it's the principal. Parental consent should be sought if the child is under the films age rating.
If this issue had arisen whilst I was a governor at my child's primary school, I would have fought hard for seeking consent to be adopt as school policy.

Wouldn't bother me depending on the film or if it was relevant to what they were learning. However DH is a head teacher and I know that it's a big no.

Lol at special snowflake melting.
Special snowflake is such a twatty response especially when the child concerned has sn.

No where does it say anywhere that the child complained about the film they watched anywhere.

We live in Germany. As a pre-Christmas treat in English class, my son (10) was shown "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" (in German -- WTF?). I use the website "commonsensemedia.org" to check out films before I show them to my kids. They rated that one 13+. I think many adults gloss over or forget naughty bits and don't realize that more kids aren't really ready for that kind of content. Oh, and BTW, they rated "Bad Santa" 17+.

GreenCard the BBC rate the National Lampoon Christmas film as PG, with the DVD release being 12 as that's the rating if the extra content. (googled as I was surprised it wasn't PG). Personally I'm fine with smut and innuendo, and even sex but not with scenes where sexual consent is ignored or men glorified for 'pushing boundaries". And all the children's dramas where kids are shown to be 'cool' by being nasty - I'd love them to be restricted to after 9 pm!

Back when I was at school you could still go on school trips to the cinema way under age (A Chorus Line was a 15, I was 10), and on Mondays hungover teachers would give us a video and tell us to shut it - Blue Lagoon, 9 1/2 weeks, all of Moonlighting, Terminator. We often had to fast forward boring talking to ensure we saw the end, which I think made it not bad for us - the sex in 9 1/2 Weeks is amusing to watch, but the plot is of an abusive relationship, which we'd missed completely (as in not watched, not just not noticed).

Yes it would bother me and I would go and meet with the school about it