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MAR2012.064

(2011), NR [PG-NR*] (101.75min)

Final Score
Analysis Date
Date Posted
Influence Density
MinMax
July 31, 2012
August 4, 2012
79
0.38
-46

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SUMMARY / COMMENTARY:
(While the Scriptural references are certainly not subjective, my commentary may be and sometimes is somewhat subjective.)

If Scriptural references appear, the full text appears at the end of the Summary / Commentary.



(2011), NR [PG-NR*] ... "This is a story of our children"


Production (US): Gunn Productions, Christian Liberty Academy School System, CLASS Homeschools, Christian Liberty Press, Exodus Mandate, The Gunn Brothers
Distribution (US): ChristianCinema.com
Director(s): Joaquin Fernandez, Colin Gunn
Producer(s): Scott Eash, Joaquin Fernandez, Colin Gunn, Dr. Richard A. Jones, E. Ray Moore, Jr.
Written by: Joaquin Fernandez, Colin Gunn
Cinematography/Camera: Joaquin Fernandez
Music: Mitch Nutt
Songs by: The Wintons
Film Editing: Joaquin Fernandez, Corey Chaney, Kyle Decker, James Fletcher
Viewed on ChristianCinema.com Home DVD


The film is prefaced with "This film includes subject matter that some may find inappropriate for their younger children. Parental guidance is encouraged." I agree for the reasons presented in this report.

This film is not "Friday night entertainment." It is documentation of findings made by filmmaker Colin Gunn and his family and crew.

"This is a story of our children. This is a story of the big yellow bus. This is the story of indoctrination." Those three sentences fairly well identify the scope and purpose of the film. Several paths and systems used by the public schools to reject God from the classroom are revealed. With the rejecting of God from the schools comes rejecting of wholesome moral standards such as sexual purity.

Filmmaker Colin Gunn travels the US with his wife Emily and seven kids visiting many schools and other facilities across the country to interview their staffs for answers to questions such as:

o Who established the American public school system?
o Are my kids physically and morally safe in public schools?
o Are public schools religiously neutral?
o Should Christians try to be "salt and light" in public schools?
o Can the public school system be fixed or redeemed?

Or should we withdraw our kids from public schools and homeschool them or leave them in the system and try to make it better? After all, there is no Constitutional authority for the Federal government to control the education of our children. President Ronald Reagan even tried to dissolve the Federal Department of Education.

Colin records interviews with whistle blowers of school staffs, a number of students, parents and educational professionals and experts. Gunn has assembled a sobering fabric of challenge for the public school system to clean up their act. A great and quite likely unanswerable question is must the majority believers suffer for the sake of the minority non-believers: must the majority succumb to the wishes of the minority?

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Following are brief discussions of the content per individual content investigation area. As always the Findings section of this report, the heart of the CAP Analysis Model, is the best source for discovering the full accounting of the content of this film.

Wanton Violence/Crime (W) - 84 out of 100
A security camera clip is used to present a brutal elementary school beating. Newscasts report of rape and suicides. An interview with a student reports on the student seeing a firearm on the school bus.

While the intent in showing the beating video is to impart the heinous properties of such violence, God warns in Proverb 16:29 that violence is enticing, that violence can led one into the path that is not good. And four professional public health agencies jointly published that violence onscreen can, among other things, lead the observer, especially youth to real life violence.

Impudence/Hate (I) - 80 out of 100
Gunn reveals school affronts to parents. One school would not allow parents to prohibit the school from giving their kids condoms and other schools practice academic fraud [Prov. 20:17]. Several scenes are presented of children being led to embrace the homosexual lifestyle without parental knowledge or approval, likely before the kids can even spell it. Definitely before they should be getting "sexual" anything.

Sexual Immorality (S) - 44 out of 100
Here is where the strongest content was found. Though there are no acts of sexual immorality and no nudity in the film, many reports of sexually immoral programs and behaviors are presented. A student tells of learning of sexual sin from an abstinence program. A newscast reports more than half of school kids have had immoral sex, many without condoms. Another student reports that four of her classmates are pregnant. Another newscast reports a school providing condoms to high school and elementary school students. Gunn also finds reports of teachers condoning the chosen practice of homosexuality in the classroom and programs to normalize the practice of homosexuality.

It is important for the parent to realize that for some children onscreen references to sexually immoral behaviors can embolden them to "try it for themselves." [Eph 5:12] There is more to the content applicable to this content investigation area and I ask that you inspect the listing in the Findings/Scoring section for a full accounting of them.

Drugs/Alcohol (D) - 87 out of 100
Again one must realize that onscreen references to illegal drug and alcohol abuse can embolden some to experiment with them. Gunn finds that drug abuse is nearly rampant in most public schools. He even presents scenes of illegal drugs from police evidence.

Offense to God (O) - 87 out of 100
Gunn finds that most Christian high school graduates reject their faith in Jesus. Gunn exposes reports of teachers and other school staff being fired or suffering other action against them for even speaking the name of Jesus to the students. [Luke 6:22]

Murder/Suicide (M) - 90 out of 100
While there is no murder portrayed in this film, a real murder victim is displayed. Gunn interviews the father of one of the Columbine victims culminating with a scene of his dead son on the school sidewalk beside a puddle of his son's blood. Gunn also finds reports of murder by abortion in middle school.

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SCRIPTURAL APPLICATION(S)

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CHAPTER/VERSE

  • Prov. 16:29 A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way that is not good. [The issue is the violence, the 'way that is not good' no matter how "small" or "fantasy" or "justified" the violence might seem, and its "leading" effect on the observer. "A violent man" can be any character of any age, any gender, human or not in the act of committing violent behavior/action whether for good or evil OR the violent behaviors/actions themselves. Such exposure can and does embolden the viewer into aggression, especially youth. It took years for the American professional health community to finally affirm, probably without knowing it, that which God told us in 1 Cor. 15:33 below.]
  • Prov. 20:17 Food gained by fraud tastes sweet to a man, but he ends up with a mouth full of gravel. [It doesn't have to be "food" but can be anything of gain, profit or advantage.]
  • Eph. 5:12 For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret.
  • Luke 6:22 Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.

    Selected Scriptures of Armour against the influence of the entertainment industry

  • Jer. 37:9 - 10 This is what the LORD says: Do not deceive yourselves, thinking, 'The Babylonians [the destroyers from within] will surely leave us.' They will not! Even if you were to defeat the entire Babylonian army that is attacking you and only wounded men were left in their tents, they would come out and burn this city down. [The "destroyers form within" do not have to be army warriors. They can be the ones who destroy through corruption of moral standards as well, such as filmmakers who perpetuate desensitization against wholesome standards. They aren't going anywhere, folks. Not until Jesus comes again.]
  • Ps. 12:8 The wicked freely strut about when what is vile is honored among men [when enough people continue to defend what is vile, embrace it, enjoy it, want it, submit to it.]
  • Col. 2:8 Beware lest any man [by his influence] spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
  • 1 Cor. 15:33 Be not deceived: evil [kakov: of a bad nature, not such as it ought to be] communications corrupt good manners.
  • Rom. 5:19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
  • Jude 1:4 For there are certain men* crept in unawares [secretly slipped in among us], who were before of old ordained to this condemnation [whose condemnation was written about long ago], ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness [a license for immorality], and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. [*men: anthropos {anth'-ro-pos}, generic, a human being, whether male or female]
  • Matt. 25:40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
  • Luke 17:2 It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Offend: skandalizo {skan-dal-id'-zo} - scandalize, to entice to sin. And remember, mom/dad, "little ones" is mikros, meaning less by birth; younger. All of your children are younger than you and less by birth than you. So, "little ones" includes at-home teens.]
  • Ps. 119:133 Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me [let no sin rule over me].
  • John 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
  • 1 Thess. 5:22 Abstain from all appearance of evil. ["Evil" includes all things that are sinful.]

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    As always, it is best to refer to the Findings/Scoring section -- the heart of the CAP analysis model -- for the most complete assessment possible of this movie.
  • FINDINGS / SCORING:
    (The objective heart of the CAP Analysis Model, independent of and insulated from the Summary / Commentary section.)

    IndoctriNation: Public Schools and the Decline of Christianity in America (2011) CAP Thermometers

    Wanton Violence/Crime (W) - 84 out of 100
  • school beating
  • newscast of rape and suicide in public schools
  • interview with student witnessing a firearm on the bus

    Impudence/Hate (I) - 80 out of 100
  • school not permitting parents to prohibit children from receiving condoms form the school
  • reporting that some school practice academic fraud

    Sexual Immorality (S) - 44 out of 100
  • girl telling that she learned of sexual immorality from abstinence program
  • newscast of more than half of students have had immoral sex, many without condoms
  • report of four elementary school girls pregnant
  • newscast of school providing condoms without parental consent or knowledge
  • condom disguised as lollipop from Planed Parenthood
  • report of school staff targeting 10% of students for sex
  • report of school principal soliciting school boys for homosexual sex
  • reports of school teachers condoning the practice of homosexuality to elementary school students
  • school programs embracing the practice of homosexuality
  • scenes of school staff indoctrinating elementary school students to the homosexual lifestyle, repeatedly

    Drugs/Alcohol (D) - 87 out of 100
  • reports of illegal drugs and alcohol in middle schools
  • scenes of illegal drugs from police evidence room
  • interview with high school students reporting widespread abuse of illegal drugs

    Offense to God (O) - 87 out of 100
  • report of most high school students rejecting their belief in Christ/God
  • reports of action against teachers for mentioning Jesus in class, repeatedly

    Murder/Suicide (M) - 90 out of 100
  • report of abortion in middle school
  • image of dead boy in a pool of blood at Columbine















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    There are some in the entertainment industry who maintain that 1) violent programming is harmless because no studies exist that prove a connection between violent entertainment and aggressive behavior in children, and 2) young people know that television, movies, and video games are simply fantasy. Unfortunately, they are wrong on both accounts." And "Viewing violence may lead to real life violence." I applaud these associations for fortifying 1 Cor. 15:33. Read the rest of the story. From our years of study, I contend that other aberrant behaviors, attitudes, and expressions can be inserted in place of "violence" in that statement. Our Director - Child Psychology Support, a licensed psychologist and certified school psychologist concurs. For example, "Viewing arrogance against fair authority may lead to your kids defying you in real life." Or "Viewing sex may lead to sex in real life." Likewise and especially with impudence, hate and foul language. I further contend that any positive behavior can be inserted in place of "violence" with the same chance or likelihood of being a behavior template for the observer; of being incorporated into the behavior mechanics and/or coping skills of the observer. In choosing your entertainment, please consider carefully the "rest of the story" and our findings.





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