Texas fires art teacher over nude sculpture
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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.
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.
Would you go nuclear and complain if your child saw a nude sculpture at an ARt Museum? This was an isolated incident, only one kid saw the sculpture and only that one child's parent complained.
Yes it was an elementary school class but you signed the slip oking the trip to the museum.