As a parent, how would you react if you learned your 11-year-old child had been shown an R-rated movie during one of his middle school classes? Would you be angry that the school hadn't asked for permission before exposing the children to a movie with adult content, including violence, gore, and plenty of profanity? Okay, now imagine that movie was Saw. NOW how do you feel?

Unbelievably, this actually happened on Monday. A middle school math teacher was briefly suspended for screening Saw to a class of sixth graders at a school in Colombes, France. According to reports, he told the kids that this would be their first horror movie, and -- shocker! -- at least one kid came home in "visible discomfort" after seeing the film.

Even though multiples have become more common over the years with the increased use of fertility medications, there's still something about twins that is fascinating. So just imagine how fascinating Highcrest Middle School in Wilmette, Illinois, is with 24 sets of twins in one grade alone.

The school believes it has set a world record for the most sets of twins in one grade. This was discovered by twins, of course -- Luke and Ryan Novosel, who, according to the Associated Press, were on a mission to find a way into the Guinness Book of World Records. When pogo sticking and burping didn't pan out, they started looking around their school and started noticing there were tons of twins -- all in the fifth grade.

In all, they found three sets of boy-boy twins, 11 sets of girl-girl twins, and 10 sets of boy-girl twins. That made for 24 sets in all, which blew away the current record of 16.

If you have a young boy, can he be within close physical proximity to the color pink without throwing a massive tantrum? Well, according to esteemed Fox News host Bill O'Reilly, if that's the case, you need to punish him until he understands the true meaning of masculinity. O'Reilly's suggestion? "Send him to camp." Presumably a behavioral corrections camp where children are walloped with sticks until they not only embrace their gender stereotypes, but harshly judge those who aren't doing the same.

This bizarre story sounds almost too ridiculous to be true, but 1) hello, it's Bill O'Reilly we're talking about here, and 2) it really happened as the result of a scintillating discussion between O'Reilly and his equally obnoxious guest Adam Corolla. The topic in question: one school's "gender bender" day during Spirit Week. The conclusion: BOYS WHO LIKE PINK ARE STUPID.

If you've had any personal experience getting a child registered for kindergarten lately, I've got a question for you: did you have to hand over, say, a DNA sample to the school? A photograph of your underwear drawer? A printout of your browser history, maybe?

The reason I ask is because I was a little dismayed at the sheer amount of personal information I had to provide when I registered my 5-year-old a few weeks ago. Based on this post in the CafeMom forums, I'm not alone in feeling like the number of questions a person's supposed to answer about their kindergartener has become a little ... extreme.

In what's being called a breakthrough approach to bullying, a Wisconsin town will now fine the parents of children who bully others. That means if your kid harasses another kid, you could have to cough up the cash.

According to the Wisconsin State Journal, the Monona City Council enacted the "parent-liability" ordinance last week to try to do something to put an end to bullying. A first violation will earn parents a $114 fine; those that follow carry a fine of $177. It defines bullying as “an intentional course of conduct which is reasonably likely to intimidate, emotionally abuse, slander, threaten, or intimidate another person and which serves no legitimate purpose."

People are thrilled with the unique approach, and it's great to see a community taking the issue so seriously. In practice, however, it's all kinds of problematic.

As summer nears, and children celebrate the final days of the school year, moms everywhere are filled with idyllic visions of the long days that lie ahead of us. We promise ourselves that this summer will be different, better, calmer, more memorable ... just like we do every year.

Only those promises ... well they're just not always kept. Oh, our intentions are well and good, but somehow summer has a way of sidetracking us. Here are seven vows moms make each summer ... and what really happens. At least there's always next year.

What vows have you made this summer?

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Ugh. An elementary school in Wisconsin is causing a stir this week all because of a "Gender Bender" themed dress-up day they had planned for the students during Spirit Week.

A cute little flyer was sent home with the kids detailing what the theme of attire would be for each day during Spirit Week. On Gender Bender day, the boys were supposed to dress like girls and the girls were supposed to dress like boys.

Sounds fun, huh? And it certainly sounds like something elementary school kids would get a kick out of.

There's just one problem -- some of the parents freaked out because they think dressing like a member of the opposite sex promotes homosexuality.

In what has to be one of the saddest yet sweetest gestures I've ever seen, hundreds of police officers showed up to a 5-year-old girl's kindergarten graduation to support her after losing her dad in the line of duty just three days earlier.

Originally, a few officers were planning on attending Tatum Raetz's graduation ceremony, but then word spread through the Phoenix police department. Lo and behold, Tatum and her mother were greeted by hundreds of men in uniform who helped honor her daddy's memory.