Teacher canned after student sees nude sculpture @ Dallas Museum trip

[elehhhhna]

Teacher reprimanded after student sees nude art on museum trip


Associated Press

FRISCO — School board members have voted to not renew the contract of a veteran art teacher who was reprimanded after one of her fifth-grade students saw a nude sculpture during a school trip to a museum.

Sydney McGee has been on paid administrative leave from Fisher Elementary School since Friday, said her attorney Rogge Dunn.

McGee's contract runs through the end of the school year and it was unclear whether she would remain on leave until then. Her attorney said he would wait for written confirmation and clarification from the school district to decide how to proceed.

He said McGee, a 28-year veteran teacher, was upset about the Monday decision.

McGee has said her troubles started after taking 89 students on a school field trip to the Dallas Museum of Art in April.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4214639.html

[Jacobin]

1. must. ..keep.. .students.. ..dumb... .away... .from. ..museums....

Might see naked people rendered in stone...

AAIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEE

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Guess the slides of the Sistine Chapel are out of the question. n/t

[yurbud]

3. John Ashcroft became an elementary school principal at

Fred Phelps Middle School.

[yurbud]

4. Has anyone ever been aroused by looking at a statue?

[Bluebear]

5. 'No but they COULD of been!!!!111111'

:eyes:

[yurbud]

10. possibly the only more absurd than contagious homosexuality

"If them queers get married, some feller might git it in his head to marry a feller too, instead a juss meet behind the barn on the QT like God intended."

[MADem]

15. Hmmmm, would that be called statue-phelia?

I suppose it might, but only if one ACTED on the impulse!!!!

The only incident I can recall is that stupid movie where the store mannequin came to life...but then, ya gotta ask yourself, what's art, and what's drek??

[MadMaddie]

6. This is ridiculous.....it's called ART...

The kids are missing so much because of the neocons.....and this just pushes our kids further and further back in their education....

[yurbud]

11. I don't think kids should see Art Garfunkel naked--the hair is bad enough

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. Oh how stupid

This is getting really bad, folks.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

8. mega-dupe n/t

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2224200&mesg_id=2224200

[acmejack]

16. I'll alert the media...

[ProdigalJunkMail]

17. they have been alerted...

twice...

sP

[acmejack]

20. Excellent.

All goes according to plan in that case:)

[MADem]

18. Ah, Sir John Gielgud, you've returned to earth!!! How marvellous!!!

:evilgrin:

Though "Arthur" no doubt misses your presence in heaven!

[acmejack]

21. Sir John would have never used a contraction!

"I shall alert..."

[KingFlorez]

9. It's art, give me a break

Art isn't supposed to be looked at in that way

[tjwash]

12. Art? pffffffffffft.

Kids don't need art. All they need to know is how to count and run the machinery at the factory that makes cheap shit to sell at Walmart. Or how to run the cash register at the walmart.

[MADem]

13. Jesus H. Christ--why am I not out raping and murdering in my old age?

I grew up in the golden age of the "Field Trip." Museums galore, historical sites, science outings, even a trip to meet the guv'nah!

We saw nekkid paintings, nekkid sculptures, and all sorts of representations of blood, gore and violence in oils and other media. We were, dare I say, EXPOSED to ideas!

So why is it that my generation isn't irretrievably warped as a consequence?

[acmejack]

19. They has National Geographic in my day,

They were actually allowed in School libraries, gee. Even in those provincial days in Texas not far where this terrible transgression occurred. Wonder what's changed.

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

14. Oh, good.

Now those children will all know what the human body is: an ugly, dirty piece of trash that we should all be ashamed of.


:eyes:

[Iris]

22. Where in the hell are the parents of the other 88 kids?

This is bullshit.

"This injustice will not stand, man." BL

[dogday]

23. And they all went home and watched Desperate Housewives

bunch of two-faced holier than thou types....

[Ravenseye]

24. SIMPSONS DID IT!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itchy_%26_Scratchy_%26_Marge

[bullwinkle428]

25. Heh-heh-heh...we saw naked people!

[TexasLawyer]

26. No more museums, then...

There are nude paintings and sculptures in almost all of them.

No more gym class either. Students may see nudity or partial nudity in the changing room.

And cover the bare legs of the tables and desks-- they're suggestive (the Victorians actually believed this).

Really, how po-dunk is this decision? Texas' reputation is already bad enough in the culture department.

[cynatnite]

27. They want to ruin this teacher's career!

The district rejected McGee's request in August to transfer to another Frisco school. They said they didn't want to give her a chance to move elsewhere without addressing other issues, including lesson-plan preparation.

:grr:

[burythehatchet]

28. we're two stolen elections away from

having the teacher stoned to death. Say hello to the Dumbfuckistan Taliban.

[progressoid]

29. I hope they taped over all the nekked natives in the National Geographic

DUMBFUCKISTAN INDEED.