Teacher Suspended for Showing SAW in Class

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Of all the horror movies you would want to show your students, Saw is probably the last. I mean, there’s Sleepaway Camp. There’s Friday the 13th. There’s Halloween. Those are the movies I watched when I was around 10-years-old and I turned out perfectly fine(ish). But anything that can be described as “torture porn” shouldn’t be shown to anyone, let alone 11-year-olds.

From France’s The Local:

Jean-Baptiste Clément, a maths teacher at a college in Colombes, near Paris, is alleged to have shown a class full of 11-year-old pupils the infamously gruesome horror movie ‘Saw,’ on Monday.

Clément told the children: “This will be your first horror film,” according to French radio Europe 1.

According to a father of one of the pupils at the school in Hautes-de-Seine, in the north-western suburbs of Paris, he first discovered the extraordinary screening when his young son came home from school.

“He returned from school on Monday evening, visibly in some discomfort, not well. I asked him and he told me his maths teacher had shown them a horror film during class,” he told Europe 1.

“At the moment the teachers are having staff meetings and parent-teacher meetings, so their classes are cut short and interrupted a bit,” he added.

Clément was suspended at a disciplinary hearing, we can only assume, for lack of taste.