WARNING: GRAPHIC MATERIAL Grade 10 students watched video in class
A Montreal high school teacher has been suspended after he showed his class a video depicting the graphic killing of a man police believe is Concordia University student Jun Lin.
The incident happened in a history and civics class on June 4 at Cavelier-de-LaSalle high school in the city's southwest LaSalle borough, according to the Marguerite-Bourgeoys school board .
The school board said the teacher was suspended that afternoon.
"The and the administration of Cavelier-de-LaSalle school unanimously condemn the actions of teacher who made his students watch a video with content this inappropriate and offensive," the board said in a statement released today.
"The incident is being treated very seriously by the CSMB."
The 11-minute video, which was posted on the internet on May 25 and was available for several days before police requested that it be removed, depicts a man believed to be Luka Rocco Magnotta stabbing and dismembering another man.
Montreal police have said they believe the video captured the alleged murder of Lin, a 33-year-old Chinese national, which they say took place sometime between May 24 and 25.
Investigators believe the accused then mailed body parts to political parties in Ottawa and elementary schools in B.C. before fleeing the country.
Magnotta was arrested June 4 in an internet café in Berlin, Germany.
He is awaiting extradition in a German jail.
Montreal police said the owner of the Edmonton-based gore website where the video was posted could face charges related to publishing obscene material.
The website owner has defended the site, saying he stands by its role in educating the public about the dark side of human nature.
Students voted to watch video
A 16-year-old student in the class told CBC Montreal that the teacher asked the students to vote on whether or not they wanted to watch the video.
He said all 30 students in the class anonymously voted in favour of watching it. The class then spent the rest of the 75-minute period discussing it.
The student said the video was troubling, but didn't have a lasting effect on him.
The school board said it learned of the incident the afternoon of June 4 and the teacher was immediately suspended with pay in accordance with the collective agreement.
The teacher expressed regret to the school administration via e-mail the same day, according to the board.
The teacher, who hasn't been identified by the board, is scheduled to appear before the CSMB labour relations committee today to give his side of the story.
The board will then make a decision to determine if disciplinary action will be taken.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2012/06/13/video-lin-killing-magnotta-montreal-teacher-suspended.html
*entire history of Western "civilization" comes in for a HUGE party*
Also, the students voted on it, making this a democratic decision. Looks like anti-democratic sentiments at work again in the so-called "Free World."
Cycloneboy posted:Let's not show sixteen year olds graphic violence.
*entire history of Western civilization comes in for a HUGE party*
non-autistic people find it hard to deal with graphic violence, which is also why that girl reacted poorly when you cut open that rabbit in front of her and smiled and said "i'm asexual"
getfiscal posted:Cycloneboy posted:Let's not show sixteen year olds graphic violence.
*entire history of Western civilization comes in for a HUGE party*non-autistic people find it hard to deal with graphic violence, which is also why that girl reacted poorly when you cut open that rabbit in front of her and smiled and said "i'm asexual"
The students voted for it.
A 16-year-old student in the class told CBC Montreal that the teacher asked the students to vote on whether or not they wanted to watch the video.
He said all 30 students in the class anonymously voted in favour of watching it. The class then spent the rest of the 75-minute period discussing it.
littlegreenpills posted:who here has watched it
i skipped through it and i can tell you that he does in fact cut up and eat the guy
littlegreenpills posted:who here has watched it
i don't really need to see a video of a guy stick an icepick into someones eyes and then fuck his corpse. i can easily imagine that on my own.
what i'm really curious about is how many other people he's killed prior to this point without even raising suspicious and most importantly how did he do it...
getfiscal posted:16 year olds also like jumping off things but people entrusted to their care and personal development probably shouldn't cheer them off cliffs if enough of them vote to do so
yeah, thanks, totally comparable. pause, not.
AmericanNazbro posted:what i'm really curious about is how many other people he's killed prior to this point without even raising suspicious and most importantly how did he do it...
none probably but if he had it probably involved not being caught on CCTV dumping bloodspattered garbage bags outside his own apartment building or seen by a neighbour entering with a man fitting the victim's description and leaving, in a poor disguise, without him
Groulxsmith posted:I hope that guys life is not mccaines career arc
mccaine doesn't seem the killing type 
wanna see a gay man send nine inch mails
to each arm of the politic? (uh huh!)
Crow posted:
the police are considering charging him for showing the video but no one can come up with a good charge. it's just like... that should be illegal shouldn't it? 'cause it's in poor taste? like... assault by mind fuckery?
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tpaine posted:Fail Carnegie.
the gospel of welp
getfiscal posted:the teacher was just fired for showing the video.
the police are considering charging him for showing the video but no one can come up with a good charge. it's just like... that should be illegal shouldn't it? 'cause it's in poor taste? like... assault by mind fuckery?
everything in poor taste should be illegal, starting with your posts. get headed to the gulag, comrade.
Ironicwarcriminal posted:I'm all for banning Catcher in the Rye on the grounds of taste
i guess the point of the book is sort of the ambiguity involved in facing adulthood, like towards the end holden comes up with this fantasy of what adulthood means and imagines himself helping troubled youth or whatever, but it's supposed to be immature despite the fact that holden sees it sort of as part of his maturing process. and i guess part of the point is that the adult world itself is full of disgusting compromises that are chained together by fantasies, but that part of maturing is coming to terms with that in some way. or whatever i'm not good with fiction.
but then i read all these things where people go oh i'm a youth worker because i read "catcher in the rye" growing up and it's like a slightly more cultured version of someone starting a fight club because they watched fight club or something.
getfiscal posted:it's like a slightly more cultured version of someone starting a fight club because they watched fight club or something.
i did that in HS haha
it would have made a better parable about the cusp of adulthood if he did anything interesting at all in it.
babyfinland posted:getfiscal posted:it's like a slightly more cultured version of someone starting a fight club because they watched fight club or something.
i did that in HS haha
FIGHT club not FAT club. JEsus tom. Did you even watch the movie.
Crow posted:babyfinland posted:getfiscal posted:it's like a slightly more cultured version of someone starting a fight club because they watched fight club or something.
i did that in HS haha
FIGHT club not FAT club. JEsus tom. Did you even watch the movie.
Crow posted: