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    Filed at 2:43 pm under by dcobranchi

    Another in the never ending series of WWHS. In today’s Wilmington (DE) News-Journal the main Op-Ed is a piece by English teacher Patrick Welsh (sorry, a quick Google News (beta) search yielded nada. Can anyone provide a link?). Mr. Welsh seems to be the kind of committed teacher who would just drive conservative parents batty. The regular contributor to USA Today, in discussing viewing the film Cinema Paradiso with his high-school senior students, writes:

    Such works sometimes contain distubing imagery, sexually explicit scenes and offensive language- and some would say I was pushing the envelope by choosing “Cinema Paradiso”, with its nudity and sex. But I didn’t think those scenes were lewd or gratuitous and I thought my students would both be engaged in the movie’s story and gain from its message.

    And what about what the parents might have thought to be lewd or gratuitous? When and how exactly did the PS teachers’ opinions as to what is proper supercede those of the owners of the schools (i.e., the parents)? I sometimes think tenure in the PS system is a very bad idea.

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