Posted on 12/30/2017 8:29:17 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
A Utah art teacher was fired amid complaints that images of classical paintings containing nudity were passed out in a classroom and seen by sixth-graders, a newspaper reported.
Mateo Rueda said he wasn't aware that a set of educational postcards from the elementary school library contained a few works depicting nudity when he handed them out during a lesson, the Herald Journal newspaper said Thursday.
The two images seen by students were the Impressionist-era portrait Iris Tree by Amedeo Modigliani and the Rococo-style partial nude Odalisque by 18th-century artist Francois Boucher, the teacher said.
Also included in The Art Box are Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, as well as work from Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Klee, Claude Monet and more.
He removed the cards when they made students uncomfortable, the paper reported.
'This is not material at all that I would use. I had no idea,' Rueda said.
He said he has requested a hearing and plans to appeal his termination to clear his reputation.
A few days after the December 4 lesson, police went to Lincoln Elementary School in Hyrum, about 80 miles (129 kilometers) north of Salt Lake City, to investigate a complaint that Rudea was showing pornography to students.
Cache County deputies found Principal Jeni Buist shredding postcards - at the request of the school district - that contained nudity, said Sheriff Chad Jensen.
'She said she was putting the postcards and paintings in the shredder at the request of the school district so they wouldn't be distributed again,' Sheriff Chad Jensen said.
'We got some of the pictures and showed them to the County Attorney's Office, and they said these wouldn't meet the definition of pornography. They declined to file charges.'
The Cache County School District declined to comment, saying it's a personnel matter.
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I SERIOUSLY doubt that the people of Utah would permit those things in their schools. The Danites are still said to exist in some areas of Utah.
Brown shirts demanding books be burned, again!
Dear Mrs Drisophila,
We are sending your daughter, Cleonausea, home with a written warning. As per the dress code here at Fort Enduring Courage Elementary School, children are not allowed to wear their hair with bangs, due to the association of bang with guns. Please be advised that in order to avoid offending Muslim sensibilities, pig tails are also banned.
You are asked to come in to the school for a meeting with our Trauma Counselor to discuss ameliorating the damage wearing bangs may have done to Cleonausea. While you’re here, you may notice that the American flag flown at FECES has been altered to enhance the values we try to instill in the children. The fifty stars have been replaced with one large smiley, and the red/white striping has been overprinted with the lyrics of “Baby Don’t Hurt Me.” We want you to be proud of what FECES is doing for our community.
Asst Principal
Warren Weedy
The war for Liberty of the mind never ends, as long as we’re willing to fight for it.
Got the 2 last books in the series, so am plowing through "THE BACKWARD SHADOW". :-)
OK!!!!!!!!!! Tell me what you think of them.
Who is making those Crepes Suzettes?
Also doing the whole "LOBSTER DINNER" thing for our grand meal. It's a family tradition! :-)
Yes, when I finish book #2, I'll let you know and then it's on to the third and last one! :-)
No, I haven’t but would love to one day. One of my bucket list or “if I win the lottery” dreams would be to go to Italy one day; to Rome, Florence, Venice and see them and the Sistine Chapel and the Coliseum and the ruins of Pompeii.
My nephew and his wife went to Italy a couple of years ago for a nearly two-week vacation. They got to see David and the The Pieta and went to the Vatican and saw the Sistine Chapel. When my nephew came back he told me the pictures of the statue of David could never come close to how beautiful and magnificent it was in person, and I can tell you my nephew is in no way a homo, in fact he’s a very conservative guy gun toting, cigar smoking true blue American dude, but he does appreciate great art.
“Fun times...lol ;-)”
Don’t you know it.
Mama wondered why the Sears catalog and the National Geografic always wound up in the outhouse.
My explanation was the NG was for reading about faraway places and the Sears was for my wish list.
She bought it but daddy just shook his head.
Boys will be boys.
We sent 27 million American Men across the ocean for that reason in the 1940s.
It’s time to remember who we are.
Great movie, had the biggest crush on Holly Hunter back in the day.
I’ll be happy to take that old Matisse off your hands.
*art ping
Just wrong on so many levels...
Didn’t say better than. Just different.
There is a big difference.
Really. Take a look at Early Elementary Sex Education Curriculum (grades K-3) and tell me these kids had not already seen what naked women look like.
Apparently...he didn’t do his homework.
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