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Perpetual Futility · Joined: 27 Aug 2006 Posts: 50

Quote: 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.nbc10.com/family/9936513/detail.html

AH yes, the American upsession with political correctness, the student saw a naked staute, at an art museum, not a rare thing for a statue in an art museum to contain some nudity and everyone is shocked. The very mentioning of nudidty gets everyone up in arms. This uproar seems to haze people's judgement because she is being reprimanded because the parents signed a permission slip and the principal recommended it for the class.

But go ahead, damage a good teacher's career because of a silly uproar.

agentkgb · Joined: 23 Aug 2006 Posts: 2241 Location: US

One of these should be locked or something, it's a double thread.

slitedeviance · Joined: 02 Sep 2006 Posts: 1507

How can she lose her job? How?

The permission slips were signed. Parents should be well aware that art galleries and museums sometimes have nude scultures of art in them. They have the responsibility not the teacher.

This is seriously wrong.

agentkgb · Joined: 23 Aug 2006 Posts: 2241 Location: US

slitedeviance wrote: How can she lose her job? How?

The permission slips were signed. Parents should be well aware that art galleries and museums sometimes have nude scultures of art in them. They have the responsibility not the teacher.

This is seriously wrong.
Agreed. If you sign a permission slip, you're giving permission to have your kid go wherever the place on the slip was, hence the term "permission slip." If you're that paranoid then don't sign the slip.

slitedeviance · Joined: 02 Sep 2006 Posts: 1507

What age group are we looking at for 5th Grade?

smo69 · Joined: 11 Oct 2006 Posts: 162 Location: NYC

I sat there for a moment thinking of a way to react to this, and I almost had an aneurysm. I give up. My head hurts.

Green · Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 6:30 pm Post subject:

slitedeviance wrote: What age group are we looking at for 5th Grade? 9-10ish

Green · Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 6:32 pm Post subject:

slitedeviance wrote: How can she lose her job? How?

The permission slips were signed. Parents should be well aware that art galleries and museums sometimes have nude scultures of art in them. They have the responsibility not the teacher.

This is seriously wrong. Agree here.

It is not as if they have not seen a naked person before, or they will not for a very long time.

TNBiologist · Joined: 31 Jan 2006 Posts: 962 Location: Tennessee

OMG. Nude art. Its not like these students saw a porno. They saw a sculpture. The parenst signed a permission slip allowing them to go. The teacher shoudl be reinstated and teh parenst told to homeschool their children if thay are that worried about what their children see in an art museum.

thundertaker · Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 6:34 pm Post subject:

But something had to be done about this teacher sending the children down a path of moral depravity and sin by looking at a nude statue. In the name of Jesus...... Whooo.........

The Newb · Joined: 06 Oct 2006 Posts: 2665

and they say congress is screwed up? :lol:

ideal · Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 213 Location: Wyoming

Folks. I think it's time to burn the country.

micfranklin · Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 8:37 pm Post subject:

By signing that slip, these parents allowed them to see such works of art. This outrage at this teacher only proves these parents will b**** about anything to get the blame off their shoulders.

IMO the parents should be sued for general stupidity.

slitedeviance · Joined: 02 Sep 2006 Posts: 1507

Wait, do we think the teacher has the right to pursue legal action against the parents? I'm guessing she has a pretty exemplary record with the award she has, so surely there must have been some undue pressure coming from someone for her to be removed in this way...

We need to find who the parents that complained were and check out any links to the mafia etc. (semi-joking about the mafia thing).

micfranklin · Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 9:56 am Post subject:

I wonder if there's a link I can use to give my opinion to the retards behind this....

TheGirlNextDoor · Joined: 08 Jul 2004 Posts: 22608

slitedeviance wrote: What age group are we looking at for 5th Grade?

Normally 10 years old.

TheGirlNextDoor · Joined: 08 Jul 2004 Posts: 22608

TNBiologist wrote: OMG. Nude art. Its not like these students saw a porno. They saw a sculpture. The parenst signed a permission slip allowing them to go. The teacher shoudl be reinstated and teh parenst told to homeschool their children if thay are that worried about what their children see in an art museum.

Bingo and THANK YOU!

The Grandmaster · Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 10:30 am Post subject:

smo69 wrote: I sat there for a moment thinking of a way to react to this, and I almost had an aneurysm. I give up. My head hurts.

Same here. This is so f***ing ludicrous, and demonstrates such an amazing, unbelievable prudishness in our society, that I no longer can think of a way to respond.

The Grandmaster · Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 10:32 am Post subject:

Is their some petition or something we can sign, I don't know? I'm in awe of this article.

The Newb · Joined: 06 Oct 2006 Posts: 2665

the way i see it, and most of the world sees it, is that art is not porn! art is a learning experience even if it is a staue that you are looking at, or a painting, or a poem, a song, whatever it gives you a look in to the artists mind and with that you will learn from it

i do not beleive that there should be a lawsuit based on that in itself, however the principle sugessted the trip, and parents signed, what gives the schoolboard, and the principle the right to discipline her?