I just saw this film, 40 Year Old Virgin, tonite for the first time. It was funny, yet I believe it also had some very good messages in the film, as graphic as it was in some parts so it deserved the R rating.
Not knowing all the details of what happened with the teacher and in his Spanish classroom, I don't feel justified to say what I feel was right or wrong in what he chose to do. Certainly the "right" thing would have been to have planned to show the movie with permission slips from any students under the R rating age. As a parent (my son is now in his 2nd year in college) this is the least I would have expected.
IF the film was in fact shown the day after mid terms I would understand it's choice not having anything to do with a Spanish curriculum. I don't honestly feel it fair for the district to fire the instructor. Who knows this could have been an awesome teacher the school and district will now miss out on for simply have made a wrong decision showing a movie without parental permission from an underage students.
Lastly, this is the 21st century. I'm willing to bet a very high percentage of students in this high school class were not virgins when this movie was shown. There are far more serious problems I feel should be addressed in high school than firign teachers for showing such a movie in class, like peer pressure, drugs, having sex on campus, STD's, dropping out, cheating on tests......
That's my ten cents' worth.