Schoolgirl sues after watching 'Brokeback'


A 12-year-old girl is suing her school for emotional distress after her teacher screened "Brokeback Mountain" in a classroom.

Jessica Turner and her grandparents Kenneth and LaVerne Richardson are seeking more than US$400,000 in damages against the Chicago Board of Education and others, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

The suit claims that Turner and her classmates at Ashburn Community Elementary School were forced to watch the film under the guidance of a substitute teacher and the approval of the principal.

Turner is currently in counselling for the alleged "distress" caused by watching Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal in steamy love scenes.



That is hilarious... I bet she's scarred for life now..

Who wouldn't have emotional distress after watching that movie?

Wow poor kids. My mom watched it but I just refused.

Last year, we had a sub show Open Water, where there is a full nude scene. She had no premission, and when the scene was on, she told us to close our eyes.

Yeah poor kids only get 400,000 dollars...

I dont know about you but i would watch that movie any day for that kind of money

I'm assuming that's a joke.

Twas sarcasm.

I would slap the girl in the mouth.

I love how they made fun of broke back mountain in ScaryMovie4
"Im just grabbing some nuts"

Stupid bitch girl. I had to watch Platoon. I cried and had nightmares after that movie. And read Hiroshima. Again, crying and nightmares. But she watches a movie-love scene and throws a tantrum, then gets the legal system in on it? I hope they release her name so I can beat her up and take her lunch money, all $400,000 of it.

Source please.

Better yet, Turkey slap her. Oh wait she's only 12.

Forced. sounds like they were tied to chairs and there eyes sticky taped open.

haha



It was on the ninemsn homepage. (Australia) I'll give you the link.

i was forced to watch 1984 in class when i was 16 and was emotionally scarred for a long time. it was like naked ugly people walking around for the entire movie. that actualy IS really wrong to show a bunch of middle schoolers an R rated movie... wtf was the sub thinking??? pretty sure you need permission slips and all that kind of shit in school to show anything worse than PG's

Source link

http://www.yourmovies.com.au/news/index.cf...ws&i=118571

I don't care how it affected the girl. What the hell kind of school would show Brokeback Mountain? What's the purpose of that?

What's wrong with The Incredibles?

Not that I have anything against BM....Iactually love that movie...but still. This whole story is stupid.

Anyone who like brokebackmountain is a whore.

I'd say anyone who had sex with multiple partners on a regular and casual basis was a whore, but if you say so.

I have never watched it. lol

same here. and i don't feel the urge.

Lol I would sue aswell, if they ever showed me that movie. But seriously this must have been a joke that shes playing LOL!

exactly. i'm not a fan of gay movies. lol

EDIT: nevermind

haha

uhh.. what?

Emotional distress eh?...I wan't to see this movie now.

I give this girl a round of applause, any normal person would just close their eyes and go to sleep for the movie, but with hard work and determination, she will be able to earn herself over $400, 000. Lol, Broke back mountain...oh man, what a shitty movie. The funniest part about these two movies is that Heath ledger is the new joker for Batman and Jake Gyllenhaal is the New Spiderman for the next spiderman movie. So you'll half expect those two to get it on when their are dressed up as joker and Spiderman.

damn that sux, im glad i dont have that teacher


you did before?

lol

harden up, it wasn't that steamy

ok she's twelve, but still
If that already shocks her than she'd better not watch Dutch movies or go to Amsterdam xD

Nah, I've not seen it...my friends have told me not to, they said it was crap. Is it?

haha, reminds me of chopper(ronnie johns)

Harden the fuck up!

They meet

SEX

Jake Gyllenhall dies


Now you've seen it


p.s. I used to watch the Ronnie Johns half hour lol

Ditto.

I can't believe they want $400,000 though. That's just ridiculous. But the school shouldn't have shown them that movie. What is educational about it?

to a 12 year old it IS pretty racy. i mean think of the shock she'd be in when the girl from princess diaries sudden ripped her bra off? lol

i figure it's more her parents doing than anything... she might have hated the movie, but her parents obviously hired a lawyer and decided they'd get her some college tuition money out of this.

wow thats really gay

now THAT i'd like to see...

$400,000 thats just stupid... its a freakin romance movie... with a mild love scene...
as boring as it is it isn't worth suing
homophobes

One thing to say:The United States of America and it's fucking easy-to-sue-system and the blody christians.Why can't you behave like normal people?Hell,we watched the Resident Evil movies when I was 13 in school.Though the movie sucks.Too much gay cowboys.I mean BPM not RE.

Haha, that's awesome!

You people in the USA can sue anybody because of everything.

i'll sue you for saying "sue" which is me cousin's name!

lawlz didn't the idiot know the movie was about gay eople i mean look at the title of it

Hahaha that's hilarious! How pathetic of her

I would break that girls jaw for an insult of the legal system.

"poor me! I experienced watching something close to sex! Ahhhhhhhh!"

What was that substitute thinking

lol stupid girl

Haha, that's so funny..

supid girl xD

OMG no!
Please don't!

Ahahahaha.
I'm 12, and I've seen worse than that.
Little bitch.

lmao, i love stupid people.

never seen the movie, but i've heard enough about it from others.
and im sure they wernt "forced" to watch it. im in grade 11 and my teachers still ask if anyone would like to sit out of movies.

little kids are dumb, their parents are even dumber

i love how its always the subs that show it...

In almost every school the students watch something that "emotionally distresses" them.

AHAHAHAHA! still haven't seen it. lol. thats so wrong.

Well, lets put it this way suing people (for reasons like this) is just ridiculous, go to work and earn money like every other normal human being -.- . To add, I'm sure this "counseling" thing does not cost more than 400g's <(-.-)>. *Sigh* some people are too desperate *Sigh*