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리치랜드 고등학교의 인기 영어 교사 메리 포터(Mary Porter)는 미국의 유명 소설가이자 비평가인 에드거 앨런 포(Edgar Allan Poe)에 대한 수업을 진행하던 중 학생들에게 영화 ‘돌란스 캐딜락’ (2009)을 보여줬다.
포터는 학생들에게 스티븐 킹의 원작소설을 원작으로 한 공포영화 ‘돌란스 캐들락’와 에드거 앨런 포의 시를 비교해 설명해주려 했던 것으로 알려졌다.
이 영화에는 신성모독적인 언어와 폭력 장면이 포함되어있어 교내에서 상영이 허가되지 않은 영상물이라고 한 지역 신문은 보도했다.
포터가 학교 측에 의해 해임 당했는지, 스스로 퇴직했는지는 알려지지 않았다.
포터는 학교를 떠나기 전 교실 칠판에 “얘들아 내가 10학년 학생들에게 영화를 보여주는 큰 실수를 했어. 내 잘못된 판단에 대해서 영원히 미안한 마음을 갖게 될 거야. 모두 사랑하고 행운을 빌어”라고 학생들에게 메모를 남겼다.
학생들은 포터의 사임에 대한 항의를 제기하며 4일 수업을 거부했으며 트위터를 통해 학교의 결정에 대한 불만을 토로했다.
한 학생은 “전에 한 선생님이 ‘브레이브하트’를 보여줬지만 난 비교적 잘 적응했다”고 트윗을 보내 포터에 대한 지지를 보였다.
포터는 학생들의 수업거부와 항의에 대한 발언을 거부했다.
(khnews@heraldcorp.com)
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Popular Miss. teacher loses job after showing R-rated movie
A Mississippi high school teacher is now unemployed because she showed a 10th-grade class an R-rated film not screened by administrators.
The Rankin County School District said Mary Porter, a 19-year veteran English teacher highly popular among students at Richland High School in Jackson, was preparing students for a lesson on Edgar Allen Poe when she showed them "Dolan's Cadillac," a 2009 film staring Christian Slater.
She had planned to ask students to compare the movie, based on a Stephen King short story, to a Poe poem.
The film contains profane language and violence, district administrators said, and had not been approved for classroom use, the (Jackson) Clarion Ledger reported Wednesday. District officials said they weren't sure whether Porter was fired or resigned. The school's principal was not available to comment Tuesday, the newspaper said.
Porter left a message to her students on the white board in her room: "Kids, I want you to know that you are never too old to make a mistake, and I made a big one by playing a movie with my 10th-graders. I will forever be sorry for my error in judgment. I want you to know I love each of you and wish you only the best."
Students staged a walkout Tuesday in protest of Porter's departure and members of the community have taken to social media to express their displeasure, using the hashtag #BringMsPorterBack.
"I had a teacher show us 'Braveheart' in school once, and I'm relatively well-adjusted. #bringmsporterback," tweeted Tim Murphy, in response to the social campaign.
Porter declined to comment on the situation.
(khnews@heraldcorp.com)
