Teacher reprimanded after student sees nude art on museum trip

[SuzeQuze]

As reported by the Houston Chronicle. Rediculous.

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.

"If they had good reason to fire her, they would have, but they don't," Dunn said. "It's mind-boggling."

Board members declined to take questions after their closed meeting and a message left with the Frisco Independent School District wasn't immediately returned.

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

The principal at Fisher elementary, Nancy Lawson, later admonished McGee about the trip, telling her a parent complained about a student seeing nude art, said Dunn, a Dallas labor lawyer.

School officials didn't reveal which parent made the complaint.

McGee also said it was the principal who urged her to take the students to the museum, Dunn said.

District officials have said the museum field trip didn't spark reprimands of the teacher. They have repeatedly pointed to other performance issues.

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.

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

[strandinthewind]

Well, then they better not have a fukcing tv, go to the mall, etc., - because there there is more nudity and more suggestive sexual acts than in any museam, where it is at least clearly artisticly displayed.

[Johnny Stew]

The parents of that very same child probably let him or her play violent video games and watch horror movies. But God forbid they see a marble penis.

[estranged4life]

this is proof that God has developed a plan to eradicate humanity, by making humans so damn stupid that they cannot repopulate the Earth.

Gee, I saw naked artwork at musuems when in grade school (During field trips) and noone had a cow over it then, so why now???

[SuzeQuze]

I can't help but think of the scene in Meet the Fockers where Gaylord is hiding all of his mother's statues with exagerated, erect penises. Good stuff! I saw some of that art at the MFA in Boston. I didn't hear of parents complaining about that.

[DrummerDeanna]

Gosh - I wonder why we, as Americans, are so f**ked up about the human body

[mikeschmike]

Do they think that the kids are going to see the artwork and start having sex on the bus ride back to school? If letting your kids play a video game where criminals can slit prostitutes' throats (see Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas) is okay, but seeing a piece of art is worth someone losing their job then Brian is right. Sooner then later the evolutionary spiral of humanity is going to take a nose dive.

[trackaghost]

Too right. It really offends me when I hear of innocent minds being exposed to culture and art.

[mikeschmike]

Originally Posted by trackaghost

Too right. It really offends me when I hear of innocent minds being exposed to culture and art.

Heartbreaking, isn't it? The next thing you know they'll start teaching that crazy theory of evolution.

[Sarah]

i don't know why it's necessary to start going off on video games.

that kid might or might not be allowed to play games. you don't know. hell, i wouldn't be surprised if he/she was one of those kids forced to sit through services then beaten "in the name of the Lord" after sunday lunch.

that board and that kid's parents - just like thousands and thousands just like them - can go to hell for all i care, because they're never gonna change. they are, unfortunately, a fact of american life.

[ELIUD]

That's so typical Dallas. Morally superior, f*cking soccer c*nts having a heart attack over any little thing.

[BTFLCHLD]

I'd have walked thirty miles in a driving rainstorm for a nude when I was in school.

[TwistedGypsy]

Originally Posted by BTFLCHLD

I'd have walked thirty miles in a driving rainstorm for a nude when I was in school.

LMAO!
This is so stuipd! I remember my junior year of HS, I was taking Psychology and it was senior skip day so we had like maybe 10 people in the class. So the teacher let us watch Pink Floyd's___________, ****! Whats the name of that movie? Anyway you know which one I'm talking about, well the teacher got fired cause someone told that we watched it. I was soooooo pissed. At my school to show a rated R movie you had to have parental permission, blah, blah, blah. And she didn't. Such BS.

[BTFLCHLD]

Originally Posted by TwistedGypsy

Such BS.

PF The Wall? MyGoodness...child's play!
Me and my bro would sit on the hill by our house and watch the latest movie at the xxx drive-in.

Know what a drive-in is?

*feeling old*
*develops a wrinkle*

[TwistedGypsy]

Originally Posted by BTFLCHLD

PF The Wall? MyGoodness...child's play!
Me and my bro would sit on the hill by our house and watch the latest movie at the xxx drive-in.

Know what a drive-in is?

*feeling old*
*develops a wrinkle*

Uh, is that like where you drive to this like spot to watch a movie like in your car?