Art Teacher fired for gasp....student seeing a nude sculpture at museum.

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Frisco outs art teacher after museum trip


FRISCO, Texas Frisco school trustees aren't renewing the contract of a veteran art teacher who was reprimanded because a student saw a nude sculpture during a museum visit.
Sydney McGee has been on paid administrative leave from Fisher Elementary School since Friday.

McGee's contract runs through the end of the school year.

Board members declined to take questions after their closed meeting tonight. They have previously said there were concerns over McGee's performance.

Her attorney, Rogge (ROWG-EE') Dunn says he would wait for written clarification from the school district to decide how to proceed.

McGee's attorney says the teacher's troubles started after taking 89 students on a school field trip to the Dallas Museum of Art in April. The principal later admonished McGee about the trip, telling her a parent complained about a student seeing nude art.


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this stuff is just rediculous, its a naked body. There are millions of things worse in the world to expose a child to besides a naked body.
 
[quote name='schuerm26']I would say there has to be more to this firing than seeing a nude statue but who the hell knows.[/QUOTE]

You're kidding me right? I wouldn't be surprised if this happened, especially in Texas.
Stupid yes since there's a little piece of art called "David" done by one of the biggest artists in the history of humanity called Michelangelo. Oh yeah and that darn Sistine Chapel had some nude drawings right?! X-( ;-P
 
[quote name='schuerm26']I would say there has to be more to this firing than seeing a nude statue but who the hell knows.[/quote]

Yeah, I agree. I feel there is more to this story than what was written in that article.
 
[quote name='Sarang01']You're kidding me right? I wouldn't be surprised if this happened, especially in Texas.
Stupid yes since there's a little piece of art called "David" done by one of the biggest artists in the history of humanity called Michelangelo. Oh yeah and that darn Sistine Chapel had some nude drawings right?! X-( ;-P[/quote]

Of course not. If you took a kid to an art museum, they see a naked statue (how the teacher can control this at an art museum im not sure), and you get fired for this? If that is all there is then there will be lawsuits i would think. There has to be other issues with this teacher or more to the story.
 
[quote name='Maklershed']Was the statue a body mold of goatse? If so the firing is justified.[/quote]

I think it was Tubgirl.
 
[quote name='schuerm26']Of course not. If you took a kid to an art museum, they see a naked statue (how the teacher can control this at an art museum im not sure), and you get fired for this? If that is all there is then there will be lawsuits i would think. There has to be other issues with this teacher or more to the story.[/QUOTE]

I dunno, when parents put their minds to it, they can do some stupid shit to teachers.

Remember the Kansas teacher who resigned in protest after the school board ordered her to be more lenient on 28 sophomores who plagiarized their papers?

http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/2002/fyi/teachers.ednews/02/07/plagiarism.dispute.ap/index.html

I've never seen a school with a more lenient policy on plagiarism than failing the course (or expulsion). In this case, however, the parents of the cheating students formed a critical mass and protested to the school board enough that their children got away with plagiarism.

So, yes, when parents put their minds to it, stupid things sure can happen.
 
[quote name='mykevermin']I dunno, when parents put their minds to it, they can do some stupid shit to teachers.

Remember the Kansas teacher who resigned in protest after the school board ordered her to be more lenient on 28 sophomores who plagiarized their papers?

http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/2002/fyi/teachers.ednews/02/07/plagiarism.dispute.ap/index.html

I've never seen a school with a more lenient policy on plagiarism than failing the course (or expulsion). In this case, however, the parents of the cheating students formed a critical mass and protested to the school board enough that their children got away with plagiarism.

So, yes, when parents put their minds to it, stupid things sure can happen.[/QUOTE]

THANK you for validating the idiocy that can happen in this day and age. I personally think it's shameful that people can have so much of a problem with a nude body when placed in the context of art. It's one thing if said thing is presented in a big sexual manner but art? I mean there IS the saying of "The beauty of the human body.". And schuerm this shit has happened before, not in the context of school but I was watching a movie about what may have been a true story about a Museum Head who almost or DID get fired for showing a Maplethorpe exhibit though he's more controversial. The funny thing is you saw all these parents who stepped up and basically stated they knew the guy wasn't taking the photo's he was just for some perverted purposes, it had a real point.
 
IF the kid has the internet, he has already seen naked bodies. It's that simple! lol.. it's not like he was never going to see one in his life. Plus, you think the kid wears clothes 24/7? I think, he has seen himself. XD
 
[quote name='mykevermin']I dunno, when parents put their minds to it, they can do some stupid shit to teachers.

Remember the Kansas teacher who resigned in protest after the school board ordered her to be more lenient on 28 sophomores who plagiarized their papers?

http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/2002/fyi/teachers.ednews/02/07/plagiarism.dispute.ap/index.html

I've never seen a school with a more lenient policy on plagiarism than failing the course (or expulsion). In this case, however, the parents of the cheating students formed a critical mass and protested to the school board enough that their children got away with plagiarism.

So, yes, when parents put their minds to it, stupid things sure can happen.[/QUOTE]

And that's about the jist of it. I heard this on the radio today, and wanted to take out someone with my car.
 
[quote name='mykevermin']I dunno, when parents put their minds to it, they can do some stupid shit to teachers.

Remember the Kansas teacher who resigned in protest after the school board ordered her to be more lenient on 28 sophomores who plagiarized their papers?

http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/2002/fyi/teachers.ednews/02/07/plagiarism.dispute.ap/index.html

I've never seen a school with a more lenient policy on plagiarism than failing the course (or expulsion). In this case, however, the parents of the cheating students formed a critical mass and protested to the school board enough that their children got away with plagiarism.

So, yes, when parents put their minds to it, stupid things sure can happen.[/QUOTE]

Wow, that is some messed up shit. She did the right thing by resigning. What a bunch of fools.

And the firing of this teacher in Texas is just ridiculous. Are we really that uptight that we can't allow children to view legitimate art? I guess that school district needs to call in Ashcroft and his curtains...
 
5th grade and university are apples and oranges, IMO.

At the risk of setting myself up for a slippery slope, as long as such things are presented in the syllabus so the class knows ahead of time, I don't see a problem with what the Chinese art teacher did.
 
[quote name='mykevermin']5th grade and university are apples and oranges, IMO.

At the risk of setting myself up for a slippery slope, as long as such things are presented in the syllabus so the class knows ahead of time, I don't see a problem with what the Chinese art teacher did.[/quote]

I guess I missed where it said university.

I thought it was funny that one of the students said that the teacher appeared 'excited'. Of course, in a communist country, it's not like you can believe the news.

Anyway, I for one am glad that children are not being exposed to the horrors of the naked human body, just as I am equally glad that Chairman Ashcroft covered up the evil that is the naked left breast of justice.
 
I thought this kind of stuff only happens on The Simpsons. Did the town walk over to Marge Simpson's house to get her to protest David again?
 
[quote name='E-Z-B']I thought this kind of stuff only happens on The Simpsons. Did the town walk over to Marge Simpson's house to get her to protest David again?[/quote] "It displays parts of the body, which as natural as they may be, are evil!"
"I told you she was soft on full-frontal nudity!"
 
"Oh no!!! My son saw a sculpted titty!!! His mind wil be damaged for life!!!"

Im telling you there are alot of idiots these days.
 
[quote name='Rozz']"It displays parts of the body, which as natural as they may be, are evil!"
"I told you she was soft on full-frontal nudity!"[/QUOTE]

I thought it was "practical", not "natural"?
 
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