Am I overreacting?

[IsleofMum]

My dd is in Yr9 of a very highly reagarded local comp. She was distressed going to bed last night about something she had seen in a lesson at school that day. The teacher had shown the whole class a film, which it turns out was a 15 cert. She is only 13. I have raised with the school as I am shocked that this has happened. Am waiting to hear back from them. I know that at Primary School, they would NEVER allow any film to be shown other than a U. Is this normal, I know that there are plenty of teenagers who regularly watch films and play games that have this sort of content, and I'm probably in the minority for not allowing this in my house. But does this make it OK for the school to show this sort of thing. The film contained violence and bad swearing. Other views please, before I speak to the school again. They seem to be very low key about it.

At my DCs school if they were going to be shown anything (even a small clip) of a film that had a higher rating than their age parental permission was sort and and explanation given as to why the school thought it necessary to show the film. So no not normal.

My yr 10 ds is at a great school but regularly studies texts with swearing, drugs etc in. It would appear that even teachers stereotype all teenagers as needing this kind of content to stay interested in schoolwork. It's all wrong, so well worth making your point!

Thanks for the comments. Judging by the responses, it would seem that I may be on my own on this. I would have thought that if a cinema could potentially be prosecuted from allowing underage children to view this film, the school should not really be showing it either.

I am still going to suggest that maybe in future parents are given some warning and opportunity to decline their own children being involved in watching something like this again.

The thing that I find such a dual standard though, is that if my dd was in school and upset to the extent that she was about something we'd shown her at home, I'd probably have been interviewed by Social Services by now. The old saying that you 'lose' your children once they start school seems to be true in many ways.

YANBU at all. Fair enough if a parent decides to allow these things at home (within reason!) but schools should seek parental permission IMO. I mean, where would they draw the line?

My DSDs watched family guy at school in yr7 - DH and I love it but no way would we show it to an 11yo FFS!