Students Rally Around Teacher Under Fire for Showing R-Rated Film
By Beth Greenfield, Shine Staff | Parenting – Wed, Feb 5, 2014 2:14 PM EST![Teacher ousted for R movie. (Alex Dunson/Twitter [L], Cadillac Prairie Productions)](https://s3.yimg.com/nn/fp/rsz/020514/images/smush/teacher-resigns-over-movie_635x250_1391633640.jpg)
A Mississippi high school has been mired in anger this week after losing a beloved English teacher, Mary Porter, who resigned amidst an investigation. Her offense? Showing her 10th-grade class the violent, R-rated film “Dolan’s Cadillac,” reportedly as part of an assignment to compare the movie to an Edgar Allen Poe story. Now, in response to Porter's leaving, students are rallying around her through a barrage of social media and in-school protests — and allegedly harassing the students who complained about the movie in the first place.
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