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Superintendent Refuses To Let Students See 'Selma'
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January 24, 2015
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11:11Now Playing"Last week, a school superintendent in Alabama turned down a request from a group of high school students to go to a screening of Selma, the critically acclaimed film about Martin Luther King Jr.'s crusade for civil rights in Alabama, because it is filled with naughty curse words.
Superintendent Hugh Taylor told Al.com his objection stemmed from a recommendation made by "Kids in Mind," a website that appears to guide overbearing parents to which movies are acceptable for their kids to see.
"I understand the movie has a lot of historical value. The request was denied based on language. [The website] told me there were about two F-words in that movie, which I presume may mean more. The school that wanted to go [Collinsville High] is a multicultural school and [the website] said there were going to be 26 African-American connotations, which I thought would probably be inappropriate. I deemed this movie in particular inappropriate and that's my job as the head of the school system to make those decisions."*
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