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Teacher suspended for showing 'Human Centipede 2'

Posted May 05, 2016 1:00 am

JACKSON, Tenn. - A Tennessee teacher has been suspended after part of the gruesome horror film "The Human Centipede 2: (Full Sequence)" was played to a class of ninth- and 10th-graders.

News outlets report that a personnel file shows Jackson Central-Merry High School teacher Michelle Blankenship was suspended without pay April 22.

Superintendent Verna Ruffin says the district is investigating how and why the movie was shown April 20 to students under Blankenship's supervision. The film is unrated in the United States. However the British Board of Film Classification gave the movie an 18 certificate, the rough equivalent in the United States of an NC-17 rating given to movies with a high level of sexual or violent content.

Ruffin says it's unclear how much of the movie the students saw, or whether the movie was put on by a student or Blankenship.

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