News reporter gets the wrong prob­lem when report­ing on the fir­ing of a teacher for show­ing a boot­leg copy of The Simp­sons Movie to young stu­dents. The com­plaint is that show­ing a PG-​​​​13 film to 3d-​​​​5th graders is inap­pro­pri­ate. Noth­ing is said about how show­ing a boot­leg of such a film is inap­pro­pri­ate. In my not so hum­ble opin­ion, the lat­ter is the worse offense. The rat­ing sys­tem is pri­vate, vol­un­tary, and pretty arbi­trary. The film might well be just fine for chil­dren in a super­vised class­room set­ting. Copy­rights, how­ever, are the law. Teach­ers should be fired for infring­ing copy­rights in the class­room before we even [ . . . ]

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