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

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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

Unbelievable. :eyes:

really!

:P

I am mortified by this story.

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

WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE HUMAN BODY?

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Ahh, nekkid peeple!! :scared:

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

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).

That's the only word for it. Ignorance.

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

:eyes:

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

Don't even...

:scared:

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

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saw it earlier

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!

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

Seriously. Uh, no.

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

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

Texas must be destroyed.






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

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


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

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sculpture all the time?

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

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.

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

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

Shoot the bird at the Governor's Mansion.

Eat at Shady Grove.

Listen to some music.

:hi:

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

I want to go back. 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.

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

Student strip search bill goes to senate.

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

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and they let that in the classroom.

Well... maybe not in Texas.

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!

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

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.

Fuggin' whack-jobs!

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

Whata bunch of freakin' crap! :grr:

:(

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

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

The whole uproar of the Janet Jackson thing.

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