Student Sees Nude Sculpture On Field Trip To Museum - TEACHER FIRED!

[matcom]

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FRISCO, Texas -- An award-winning Texas art teacher who was reprimanded after one of her fifth-grade students saw a nude sculpture during a trip to a museum has lost her job.

The school board in Frisco has voted not to renew Sydney McGee's contract after 28 years. She has been on administrative leave.

The teacher took her students on an approved field trip to a Dallas museum, and now some parents are upset.

The Fisher Elementary School art teacher came under fire last April when she took 89 fifth-graders on a field trip to the Dallas Museum of Art. Parents raised concerns over the field trip after their children reported seeing a nude sculpture at the art museum.

The parents had signed permission slips allowing their children to take part in the field trip.

McGee's lawyer said the principal at Fisher Elementary School admonished her after a parent complained that a student had seen nude art.

McGee said the principal had urged her to take the students to the museum.

Now, McGee, who was honored with a Star Teacher Award two years ago, is on paid administrative leave until her contract with the school district expires in March.

Other parents are worried about the future of the art program at the school, which they cite as a reason for moving into the neighborhood.

"Our main concern right now is what's going to happen to the children and what's going to happen to the art program at Fisher Elementary. It is the best art program. That's the reason we moved to this neighborhood. It's because of the teachers," said Shannon Allen, a parent. "It was a principal-approved trip. What's the big deal?"

Officials with the Frisco school district declined to comment on the matter.

http://www.wftv.com/education/9936513/detail.html

[LadyoftheRabbits]

1. Utter and complete bull

Unbelievable. :eyes:

[matcom]

2. I'm not going to make fun of Texas here

really!

[LadyoftheRabbits]

14. Hehehe...

:P

[tanyev]

25. Go right ahead.

I am mortified by this story.

[Radio_Lady]

26. Give me a break! What's next? I hope I never have to live in Texas.

This society is so f***** up I can hardly believe it.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE HUMAN BODY?

[ZombieNixon]

3. Good god, these people are so repressed.

:eyes:

Ahh, nekkid peeple!! :scared:

[BarenakedLady]

4. Ridiculous!

That is the most asinine thing I've heard in awhile.

[Orrex]

5. Those kids see an ass on tv every time Bush gives a speech

So why should a nude sculpture in a museum be a problem?

ANd I thought Ashcroft was a dolt for covering up the statue of Justice (though, of course, he was was an ass and was simply foreshadowing the later obfuscations of justice by this administration).

[reyd reid reed]

6. Complete and utter...ignorance.

That's the only word for it. Ignorance.

Saddest part of all is that I'm not surprised. Saddened, but not surprised.

[u4ic]

7. Oh good grief

:eyes:

Next thing you know, the kids might see themselves naked...

[reyd reid reed]

10. *gasp*

Don't even...

:scared:

What about the CHILDREN?!?!?!?!

:eyes:

[underpants]

8. Dupe

saw it earlier

[SlavesandBulldozers]

9. Frisco Texas wins the Ahscroft Award for Medieval Thought.

[Reverend_Smitty]

11. Don't they have a teacher's union in Frisco Texas?

The only way a teacher around here can get fired is if she jumped up next to the statue and posed nude with it! This story is outrageous!

[MrCoffee]

12. Ha. The Texas State Teachers Association is a joke.

[Reverend_Smitty]

13. a casualty of Junior's tenure as governor I'm sure

[GOPisEvil]

23. Union? Texas?!

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

Seriously. Uh, no.

[Missy Vixen]

15. Way to go, Frisco School District

They sure saved the day on paying THAT teacher's pension, didn't they? :mad:

I don't know about anyone else, but maybe it's time to write a letter or make a phone call on the teacher's behalf. If parents don't want a young person seeing a nude sculpture at a museum, perhaps the child in question should not have been allowed to make the field trip in the first place.

Julie

[Guy Fawkes]

16. And the funny thing about Texas is...

I hear it's the best place to sell art. All of the oil money- they just throw money at artists and museums.

[Oeditpus Rex]

17. That settles it

Texas must be destroyed.






While we're at it, let's get Florida, too.

[Burma Jones]

18. Well, Ms. McGee, c'mon up to Brattleboro, Vermont

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/09/04/naked.town.ap/index.html


I swear, let's give Texas back...........

[xchrom]

19. what can you say about people who would do that?

:crazy:

[MichiganVote]

20. Umm..not to seem stupid, but don't kids in Europe view nude

sculpture all the time?

[GOPisEvil]

21. Frisco = Suburban Dallas = Hell

This is why I could never be a teacher. I couldn't put up with this kind of bullshit.

[mwdem]

27. Well, I live in suburban Dallas, Ft. Worth,

and you cannot write the whole area off. Yeah, it's bullshit. But I've heard of this kind of bullshit all over the US lately. The NE, SW, SE, here. Just do me a favor, and don't write off our neck of the woods, please.

[GOPisEvil]

28. Well, it was an angry generalization.

Most of the current evil in our state is based with white, suburban Republicans.

[mwdem]

29. I gotcha.

and I haven't been in your neck of the woods, yet. Hope to get out that way soon! :hi:

[GOPisEvil]

30. Come on down! Visit the pink dome!

Shoot the bird at the Governor's Mansion.

Eat at Shady Grove.

Listen to some music.

:hi:

[mwdem]

31. Kiddo, I'll let you know when I'm coming down.

Hey! Don't be a stranger. We have plenty of room up north, if you need to visit!:hi:

[GOPisEvil]

32. I was up there for the convention.

I want to go back. I'll let you know. :)

[mwdem]

34. Please do, and when I'm out your way, I'll let you know.

I missed the convention, my avatar will attest to that, but I followed everything here. I wish only the best for you, and I'll look forward to meeting you soon! I've been here a year, and I try to see as much as I can when I move to a new state, so I'll definitely be in Austin this fall.

[rug]

22. This same school board probably supports strip searches of their students.

[Guy Fawkes]

33. Following the news?

http://technocrat.net/d/2006/9/21/8096

Student strip search bill goes to senate.

[rug]

36. Thanks for the link.

[YankeyMCC]

24. A field trip to a museum!!!

Why arn't those kids takin' a trip to church for some prayin to jebus?

:sarcasm:

[Guy Fawkes]

35. There's nakedness in National Geographic...

and they let that in the classroom.

Well... maybe not in Texas.

[mykpart]

37. I'm so embarrassed!

Even here in Texas most of us know that art museums quite frequently display nude figures. Did these parents read the permission slips? Did they think the nudes would be draped to accomodate the children's innocent eyes? Have they ever noticed the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel? I hope all their children are born naked!

[pitohui]

38. now that's fairly whacky

any parent who don't know they have nekkid people in art museums hasn't been paying attention

is there some other reason they're out to get this teacher?

for instance, she has 28 years, would they have to pay a higher pension if she retired at 30 years?

because i'm thinking this is total bullshit

[LoveMyCali]

40. Doesn't it seem like

they would be open to a lawsuit for wrongful termination? I mean if the parents signed the permission slips they must have had some idea that there may be some nudity in an art museum. Now if they thought they were going to a space museum or something, then they'd have a reason to complain.

[SeattleGirl]

41. I hope the teacher goes after them.

Fuggin' whack-jobs!

[pitohui]

44. yes she needs to get an attorney STAT

i don't think this is about a nekkid statue, i think this abt not wanting to pay a pension to a teacher who has hung on for 3 decades

[SeattleGirl]

39. Oh, fer gawd sakes!

Whata bunch of freakin' crap! :grr:

[billyskank]

42. It's official: the most prudish people in the world live in America

:(

[SeattleGirl]

43. Well, remember, billy, this country was founded by the Puritans.

Unfortunately, even after over 200 years, there's still a wide streak of that running through this society. x(

[pitohui]

45. texas wasn't founded by any gee-dee puritans

sorry they don't have that excuse!

i think we need to follow the money, i really do, i think they're worried about paying this long time award winning teacher's high ass pension

[Anarcho-Socialist]

46. Are some Americans frightened of breasts?

The whole uproar of the Janet Jackson thing.

"My gawd, a child saw a titty on a statue, they're corrupted forever!"