That's ridiculous. I'm sorry. The only safe, semi-productive thing for us to do in middle school was see an 8PM movie that got out at 10, then our parents picked us up and we went home - or maybe we went and got ice cream if it was a real humdinger of a night. It was a precursor to real life, only under supervision.
And if I wanted to bring my 10 year old to a 7PM showing of a PG13 movie? That's pretty asinine. Let the parents make the choices, and boot them if they're being inappropriate, or at the very least if you're concerned about 3 year olds seeing the dark night, ban kids under 6 from specific movies. It seems like the theatre's just being lazy and would rather go authoritarian than dare stand up to adults and kids who are being rude and disrupting the movies for others.
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And if I wanted to bring my 10 year old to a 7PM showing of a PG13 movie? That's pretty asinine. Let the parents make the choices, and boot them if they're being inappropriate, or at the very least if you're concerned about 3 year olds seeing the dark night, ban kids under 6 from specific movies. It seems like the theatre's just being lazy and would rather go authoritarian than dare stand up to adults and kids who are being rude and disrupting the movies for others.