'Hunger Games' Field Trip Gives Parents Indigestion
“The Hunger Games” might be the most widely anticipated film based on a young-adult novel series since “Harry Potter,” but does that make it an appropriate field trip for sixth graders?
The bestselling trilogy explores life in a futuristic totalitarian regime, where children – armed with arrows, swords, knives and mutant killer bees -- are forced to fight to the death in public spectacles.
Students at Hamilton International Middle School in Wallingford, Wash. read author Suzanne Collins' book in class, and had been planning to see the film. That’s until parents called administrators to complain, according to the Seattle Times.
Principal Christopher Carter told the reporter the film was appropriate because it related to content areas the students were studying, but he decided to cancel the outing after hearing from concerned families. Carter said the trip that “has become a distraction in our school community.”
The bestselling trilogy explores life in a futuristic totalitarian regime, where children – armed with arrows, swords, knives and mutant killer bees -- are forced to fight to the death in public spectacles.
Students at Hamilton International Middle School in Wallingford, Wash. read author Suzanne Collins' book in class, and had been planning to see the film. That’s until parents called administrators to complain, according to the Seattle Times.
Principal Christopher Carter told the reporter the film was appropriate because it related to content areas the students were studying, but he decided to cancel the outing after hearing from concerned families. Carter said the trip that “has become a distraction in our school community.”