WOAI: SAN ANTONIO//NEWS: Superintendent: "Fahrenheit 9/11" Will Never Be Shown Again

WOAI: SAN ANTONIO//NEWS: "BEAUMONT, Texas (AP) - The Beaumont school superintendent on Monday assured parents that Michael Moore's film 'Fahrenheit 9/11' will not be shown again in district classrooms.

Carrol Thomas said the politically charged film, shown Friday at an alternative school, had no place in the Beaumont school system.

'We don't need to be showing biased viewpoints in BISD,' Thomas said in Tuesday editions of the Beaumont Enterprise.

Parent Michael Kurth criticized the decision to show the movie, based on its R rating and political partisanship. His son Matthew, 17, said that he put his head on his desk and tried to sleep through it. "