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#1 Sep 26 2006 at 5:51 AM Rating: Good
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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.


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.
#2 Sep 26 2006 at 6:11 AM Rating: Good
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The human body is bad, evil, nasty and dirty. When will you people learn??
#3 Sep 26 2006 at 6:26 AM Rating: Good
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Jesus Christ.
#4 Sep 26 2006 at 6:31 AM Rating: Good
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If I knew one of my teachers had a nude sculpture in a museum I'd be lining up to see it.
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#5 Sep 26 2006 at 6:32 AM Rating: Decent
Lame.
#6 Sep 26 2006 at 6:32 AM Rating: Good
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I'd take my kid back to the museum so I could get a gander.
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#7 Sep 26 2006 at 6:38 AM Rating: Default
That is so retarded I am now retarded. Yeah, main point being the parents signed the slip allowing their child to go. If they were really concerned about it, they should have checked out the museum ahead of time, either in person or online, and then not had their child go. Just another case of parents wanting someone else to parent their child.
#8 Sep 26 2006 at 6:49 AM Rating: Good
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Years back I had friends from Fla visiting me, who wanted to spend 2 days at the Smithsonian. They kept trying to cover their 5 year old son eyes when ever we walk pass a nude and driving me nuts. Seems they don't have nudes in museums where they live.

Finally I told them that if they didn't make an issue of the fact, their son most likely wouldn't learn to think of nudes = bad. For how could anything their God made in his image be bad?

Rest of the visit went well and the kid only asked about the bewbs on an African carving, where the bewbs stuck out like two missiles.

After a moment of silence, I explain that since breastfeeding was an important part of raising children, that many cultures created carving of women with large breasts.

Nothing was said about the ***** on the male carving standing right next to the female figure. At age of five, I would think he had a lot of experience with erections.


I also have been told that drawing and painting nudes was a sin and I needed to repent, to be saved. I didn't attend that church for long and will say if anything they were the reason I am a Pagan today. Goddesses bewbs are hot Smiley: smile
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#9 Sep 26 2006 at 6:54 AM Rating: Good
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Would you go nuclear and complain if your child saw a nude sculpture at an ARt Museum?


Forgive me or not for being an asshat philistine, but I believe that already happened in New York where the nude sculpture of Michael was demanded to be taken down after a father saw it on his daughters schools field trip.

I believe he won as well.

I could be incorrectly recalling the particular location but it did happen.

Can't find any links about it though, you try typing in nude search and see what happens.

Anybody remember the case I'm talking about?
#10 Sep 26 2006 at 7:05 AM Rating: Good
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#11 Sep 26 2006 at 7:09 AM Rating: Good
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Puritans


/nod

Its sad that still in this day and age we as a society can put so much negativity into the human body and make something so precious to be sinful.
#12 Sep 26 2006 at 7:11 AM Rating: Good
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Kelvyquayo wrote:
Puritans


/nod

Its sad that still in this day and age we as a society can put so much negativity into the human body and make something so precious to be sinful.



Yup

and still I see 6 year old girls singing along to songs like: "It's getting hot in here , so take off all your clothes"

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#13 Sep 26 2006 at 7:21 AM Rating: Good
This can't be whole story. What was the nude sculpture doing? Was it overtly sexual? No one gets canned for letting a kid see exactly what your're supposed to see in an at gallery, and I think there's something else to this.
#14 Sep 26 2006 at 7:23 AM Rating: Good
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I think there's something else to this.



did you miss that it was in Tey'ksiz?

Edited, Sep 26th 2006 at 11:31am EDT by Kelvyquayo
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#15 Sep 26 2006 at 7:25 AM Rating: Decent
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Mahmoud invokes ħijāb and calls for a burqa or other such garment be placed over that female statue. The Qur'an requires this, so it must be followed without question.

#16 Sep 26 2006 at 7:28 AM Rating: Decent
Kelvyquayo wrote:
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I think there's something else to this.



did you miss that it was in Tey'ksiz?


Yeah she is now a couple nude scupltures away from making this list.
#17 Sep 26 2006 at 7:31 AM Rating: Excellent
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You know, that would be a neat art installation. Cover all the female representations with little burqas for a week, then have a party and unveil them (so to speak).
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#18 Sep 26 2006 at 7:39 AM Rating: Good
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You know, that would be a neat art installation. Cover all the female representations with little burqas for a week, then have a party and unveil them (so to speak).
You can only do this if the statues are virgins. Just make sure BT hasn't visited the museum and you should be fine.
#19 Sep 26 2006 at 7:53 AM Rating: Decent
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Trust me, I think this is ridiculous. However....

I'm not overly surprised that the parent of an elementary school student would not want their child viewing depictions of naked people. Even if it was in the name of art.

I think the guy needs to be careful, but not fired. It's not Texas's fault for being "right-wing", it's our fault for being so freakin litigious.
#20 Sep 26 2006 at 8:15 AM Rating: Excellent
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Litigious and far too linear.

Children can certainly be taught that there's more than one way to look at something, including the human form.
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#21 Sep 26 2006 at 8:16 AM Rating: Good
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it's our fault for being so freakin litigious.


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#22 Sep 26 2006 at 11:11 AM Rating: Default
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All I can say is...if this happens at my son's school I'll pull him out in a heart beat. I don't want my children attending a school that would fire a teacher over art that some crack head thought was wrong. And I would make sure to notify the presses and local news channels to get that school as much bad publicity as possible.

If you don't like it, get the fuck out of my country!
#23 Sep 26 2006 at 9:05 PM Rating: Decent
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I mentioned this thread to my girlfriend, her first and only reaction was "Yeah, she can sue." Smiley: oyvey

I find this story hard to believe anyways. Only one child saw the statue?
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#24 Sep 27 2006 at 3:16 AM Rating: Good
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I mentioned this thread to my girlfriend, her first and only reaction was "Yeah, she can sue." Smiley: oyvey

I find this story hard to believe anyways. Only one child saw the statue?


Not sure if just one saw the statue but it sounds like it was not a schedule part of the tour. Only one kid said something to their parents or only one parent was batshiat crazy to complain.
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