STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
FOR TEACHWITHMOVIES.COM
Encourage teachers and parents to use historically accurate and culturally significant feature length films to supplement school curriculum and help teach cultural heritage to 5 - 15 year-old-children;
Enable parents to use quality feature length films to enhance their family's common frame of reference and to advance the emotional and moral development of their children;
Maintain a web site from which parents can obtain Learning Guides to help them use films for educational and social-emotional learning; to publish books and pamphlets and to sponsor public events and lectures;
Encourage the movie industry to make films suitable for use by parents to teach cultural heritage and moral values to children by creating a demand for such movies and encouraging film producers to respond to that demand with suitable films; and
Support efforts to eliminate non-essential violence and positive depictions of alcohol, drug abuse and smoking from films.
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