The teacher of a year six maths class in France has been suspended after it was revealed he would show his students the horror film ‘Saw’.
In his class of 11-year-olds, the teacher from Collège Jean-Baptiste Clément in Colombes said: “And to think you will see your first horror film in math.” Parents of the children found out what their children watched after some returned home upset after he screened only 20 minutes of the film.
The father of a child at the school, in a northwestern suburb of Paris, told Europe 1 radio: “He returned from school on Monday evening, visibly uncomfortable, not feeling well.”. I asked him and he told me his maths teacher had shown them a horror film during class “At the moment the teachers are having staff meetings and parent-teacher meetings, so their classes are cut short and interrupted a bit.”
The parent contacted the school to voice his concerns. In response to the incident, the teacher was called to a disciplinary meeting and suspended for one day. “We’re in the process of seeing what sort of legal measures we might be able to take in this case,” said Jean-François Launay of the Federation of Students’ Parents Councils.
The film has different ratings in different European countries, but 16 is the youngest age allowed to watch it, a common occurrence among ‘torture porn‘ films of the mid-2000s. Director James Wan‘s 2004 film follows a group of people who are forced into a sadistic and violent game by a mysterious figure.
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