kid sees nude statue at museum, teacher loses job

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There's a FRISCO somewhere near Dallas !?!

Local Puritans mocking San Francisco, perhaps?
(There's always an envy-component in any formal censure)

So then, in that neck of the woods: shouldn't Ashcroft be retroactively fired - for exposing the cheeldrun to bronze boobs on National Tee Vee ??

Well.. SHOULDN'T HE?

Just when you think things can't get much sillier.. in the Deep Souf (or the Icy-Ohio North): "Dirty-nasty-naked-Bodies" -- YP(Texas)B

No mystery why Muricans remain forever frozen at the level of the curious 11 yo, and instead of a healthy eroticism - choose ugly rape-porn and other sublimation: opt for an MBA, a lifetime of neckties.. and the cutting off of any remaining blood supply to the jelloware.
Ergo: Necro-Cheney/Ashcroft-osis ensues. cha cha

[link|http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2006/10/03/museum_trip/index.html?source=newsletter| Salon].

Really bad trip ... to a museum

Rollback of the Enlightenment, Chapter 47:

Yesterday the New York Times reported that elementary-school art teacher Sydney McGee of Frisco, Texas, was suspended after taking fifth-grade students on a trip to the Dallas Museum of Art during which they caught glimpses of some nude sculptures.

Yes, children. The human body is a dirty thing, and you shouldn't look at it, even when you are with your teacher, and four other teachers, and 12 parents, and a museum docent, and even when it is depicted by some of the world's finest artists and is a part of the cultural history that somehow managed to produce a progressive democracy in which primary school administrators are free to cave to the censorious demands of uptight parents who do not wish their children to get decent educations.

So here are the details of this particular brain exploder: McGee has taught for 28 years and has received good professional evaluations throughout her career, at least until the fateful museum trip last April. That's when an unidentified student went home and told his or her parents that he had glimpsed some nudie sculpture. McGee got hauled into principal Nancy Lawson's office and "bashed"; Lawson wrote her a note scolding her because during the museum tour, "students were exposed to nude statues and other nude art representations." Never mind that Lawson had already approved the museum trip. After that, McGee's professional evaluations went downhill, including a reprimand for wearing flip-flops (McGee says the footwear in question was a pair of Via Spiga sandals), and McGee was suspended (with pay). She has been denied transfer to another school in the Frisco school district and her contract will not be renewed.

Kevin Lungwitz, general counsel for the Texas State Teachers Association, told the Times that "teachers get in trouble for a variety of reasons ... but I've never heard of a teacher getting in trouble for taking her kiddoes on an approved trip to an art museum."

Among the statuary along the museum route down which McGee and her students strolled was Auguste Rodin's "The Shade," Jean Arp's "Star in a Dream" (search for Jean Arp) and the torso of a young Greek man from a 330 B.C. funerary relief. There is no word on which sculpture forever sullied young students' eyes, but McGee told the Times that principal Lawson referred to the offending work as "an abstract nude sculpture."

What struck me as particularly sad and sick about this story is the fact that when airing segments about this story, some local Dallas news stations have broadcast images of the potentially offensive art with certain anatomical areas blacked out.

Apparently, there aren't many art history students running the local Dallas news departments. Ba-dum-bum. But seriously, these are grown-up journalists, folks. And, for that matter, grown-up parents, who supposedly care enough about their children's educations to interfere with them, but not enough to want them to actually learn anything about art or history, or to see beautiful things, and who damn sure don't want them thinking that the body is beautiful or worthy of artistic representation.

I don't want to mess with Texas, a fine state that has gifted us with a number of ... memorable presidents, but what the hell is wrong with you people?

Post #268,740 by SpiceWare 9/26/06 4:54:18 PM Reply	kid sees nude statue at museum, teacher loses job [link\|http://chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4214639.html\|Teacher reprimanded after student sees nude art on museum trip] 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. boogles the mind. Darrell Spice, Jr. Trendy yet complex\nPeople seek me out - though they're not sure why\n[link\|http://spiceware.org/gallery/ArtisticOverpass\|Artistic Overpass] [link\|http://www.spiceware.org/\|SpiceWare]
Post #268,743 by ChrisR 9/26/06 5:29:21 PM Reply	It's curtains for nude statues [link\|http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1788845.stm\|Ashcroft's legacy].
Post #268,744 by Ashton 9/26/06 6:00:59 PM Reply	Ya beatmetuit.. but... FRISCO - !! - Yeegawds There's a FRISCO somewhere near Dallas !?! Local Puritans mocking San Francisco, perhaps? (There's always an envy-component in any formal censure) So then, in that neck of the woods: shouldn't Ashcroft be retroactively fired - for exposing the cheeldrun to bronze boobs on National Tee Vee ?? Well.. SHOULDN'T HE? Just when you think things can't get much sillier.. in the Deep Souf (or the Icy-Ohio North): "Dirty-nasty-naked-Bodies" -- YP(Texas)B No mystery why Muricans remain forever frozen at the level of the curious 11 yo, and instead of a healthy eroticism - choose ugly rape-porn and other sublimation: opt for an MBA, a lifetime of neckties.. and the cutting off of any remaining blood supply to the jelloware. Ergo: Necro-Cheney/Ashcroft-osis ensues. cha cha This is deadly-funny!
Post #268,746 by warmachine 9/26/06 7:22:10 PM Reply	Run! Get out.. forget it. It's just depressing. Matthew Greet Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin? - Mark Renton, Trainspotting.
Post #268,834 by lincoln 9/27/06 9:50:06 PM Reply	Tamara Hoover lost her job in Austin because nude photos of her, taken by her husband and posted on their web site, became public knowledge in the school where she taught. Once the administration caught wind of it, the puritans hit her with everything they had. She fought back, but it was too little, too late. lincoln "Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow Never apply a Star Trek solution to a Babylon 5 problem. I am not merely a "consumer" or a "taxpayer". I am a *Citizen* of the United States. [link\|mailto:bconnors@ev1.net\|contact me]
Post #268,849 by Ashton 9/27/06 10:53:04 PM Reply	Can't fight Puritans with a 'Constitution'... in a theocracy
Post #269,332 by Ashton 10/3/06 9:05:26 PM Reply	Salon - Broadsheet take on the events + reporting [link\|http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2006/10/03/museum_trip/index.html?source=newsletter\| Salon]. Really bad trip ... to a museum Rollback of the Enlightenment, Chapter 47: Yesterday the New York Times reported that elementary-school art teacher Sydney McGee of Frisco, Texas, was suspended after taking fifth-grade students on a trip to the Dallas Museum of Art during which they caught glimpses of some nude sculptures. Yes, children. The human body is a dirty thing, and you shouldn't look at it, even when you are with your teacher, and four other teachers, and 12 parents, and a museum docent, and even when it is depicted by some of the world's finest artists and is a part of the cultural history that somehow managed to produce a progressive democracy in which primary school administrators are free to cave to the censorious demands of uptight parents who do not wish their children to get decent educations. So here are the details of this particular brain exploder: McGee has taught for 28 years and has received good professional evaluations throughout her career, at least until the fateful museum trip last April. That's when an unidentified student went home and told his or her parents that he had glimpsed some nudie sculpture. McGee got hauled into principal Nancy Lawson's office and "bashed"; Lawson wrote her a note scolding her because during the museum tour, "students were exposed to nude statues and other nude art representations." Never mind that Lawson had already approved the museum trip. After that, McGee's professional evaluations went downhill, including a reprimand for wearing flip-flops (McGee says the footwear in question was a pair of Via Spiga sandals), and McGee was suspended (with pay). She has been denied transfer to another school in the Frisco school district and her contract will not be renewed. Kevin Lungwitz, general counsel for the Texas State Teachers Association, told the Times that "teachers get in trouble for a variety of reasons ... but I've never heard of a teacher getting in trouble for taking her kiddoes on an approved trip to an art museum." Among the statuary along the museum route down which McGee and her students strolled was Auguste Rodin's "The Shade," Jean Arp's "Star in a Dream" (search for Jean Arp) and the torso of a young Greek man from a 330 B.C. funerary relief. There is no word on which sculpture forever sullied young students' eyes, but McGee told the Times that principal Lawson referred to the offending work as "an abstract nude sculpture." What struck me as particularly sad and sick about this story is the fact that when airing segments about this story, some local Dallas news stations have broadcast images of the potentially offensive art with certain anatomical areas blacked out. Apparently, there aren't many art history students running the local Dallas news departments. Ba-dum-bum. But seriously, these are grown-up journalists, folks. And, for that matter, grown-up parents, who supposedly care enough about their children's educations to interfere with them, but not enough to want them to actually learn anything about art or history, or to see beautiful things, and who damn sure don't want them thinking that the body is beautiful or worthy of artistic representation. I don't want to mess with Texas, a fine state that has gifted us with a number of ... memorable presidents, but what the hell is wrong with you people?

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