Inconvenient Truth stirs controversy in Seattle suburb

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The school board in Federal Way, Washington, south of Seattle, has restricted showings of Al Goreโ€™s film on global warming and said it must be balanced with a sufficient opposingย viewpoint.

An Associated Press article in the Vancouver Sun said the board also required the school superintendent to approve when Goreโ€™s film, An Inconvenient Truth, can beย presented.

The decision followed complaints from parents who said their child was taking the film as fact after viewing it atย school.

โ€œCondoms don’t belong in school, and neither does Al Gore,โ€ said a parent of seven who doesn’t want the film shown at all. โ€œHe’s not aย schoolteacher.โ€

The board president said he’d received about a half-dozen complaints from parents. None of the board members who voted for the restrictions has seen Goreโ€™sย film.

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