Boys and Girls (Part One)
A number of news stories have crossed my path this month about boys and girls. This thread is about issues that happen to kids outside of school.
One heads up I wanted to give parents of girls is the movie, Spring Breakers. Now, you don't have to get too worried because it's rated R so I would hope most of your students could not just go to see it.
Spring Breakers is about a group of college girls who want a spring break, have no money, rob a restaurant and they're off and running.
However, you should be warned for a couple of reasons.
One, this is NOT a comedy. It's pretty serious stuff. Trailer.
Two, it stars some very familiar (to young tweens and teens) actors like Vanessa Hudgens (High School Musical), Selena Gomez (Disney Channel) and Ashley Benson (Pretty Little Liars). I read an article in the NY Times and for most of these young actresses, this is a breaking-away-from-type movie for them and their careers. (This is fine but you as parents need to know this is tough stuff.) Ms. Hudgens newest song? $$$ex. Here's what the director of Spring Breakers said in Slate:
“This film is hyper-reality,” director Harmony Korine told Salon when discussing his depictions of gun violence. “It’s an aggressive reinterpretation of that culture. It’s a pop poem or a fever dream—like the real world but hyper-
One heads up I wanted to give parents of girls is the movie, Spring Breakers. Now, you don't have to get too worried because it's rated R so I would hope most of your students could not just go to see it.
Spring Breakers is about a group of college girls who want a spring break, have no money, rob a restaurant and they're off and running.
However, you should be warned for a couple of reasons.
One, this is NOT a comedy. It's pretty serious stuff. Trailer.
Two, it stars some very familiar (to young tweens and teens) actors like Vanessa Hudgens (High School Musical), Selena Gomez (Disney Channel) and Ashley Benson (Pretty Little Liars). I read an article in the NY Times and for most of these young actresses, this is a breaking-away-from-type movie for them and their careers. (This is fine but you as parents need to know this is tough stuff.) Ms. Hudgens newest song? $$$ex. Here's what the director of Spring Breakers said in Slate:
“This film is hyper-reality,” director Harmony Korine told Salon when discussing his depictions of gun violence. “It’s an aggressive reinterpretation of that culture. It’s a pop poem or a fever dream—like the real world but hyper-
