Art Teacher Loses Job After Kids See Nude Sculpture

The Indy Channel ^ | September 26, 2006 | AP

[longtermmemmory]

I remember the explanation about what "get thee to a nunnery" REALLY meant in those days!

[antiRepublicrat]

piles of rubble at risk for being carried off by janitors who reasonably assume it to be trash

It's happened. I have a link to the article somewhere.

[stands2reason]

I still don't see anything that justifies her termination in that article.

[Michael.SF.]

JFK is not a jelly donut, that's Teddy.

[Tokra]

Here's the one sitting in front of the Detroit Institute of Arts:

[citizenmike]

I think "art" in general is way overrated in our society, especially in the leftist realm. There's this notion that art is "important". Important for what?

Without art life is merely survival.

I bet your are referring to art that you don't like. Do you listen to music? Watch TV? Go to movies? Wear clothes that do more than just cover your nakedness? Are the walls in your house painted? Do you enjoy eating or do you just eat survival rations? Do you have conversations that don't focus on food, shelter or housing? Do you read books? Drink wine? Watch sports? These are all art.

[WIladyconservative]

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.

This reason alone should earn her a bonus . . . 89 fifth graders? Ick!

[Borges]

Art shapes the way people see the world. Shakespeare virtually invented modern English. And it's populairty dates beyond educrats back to Cave paintings.

[MineralMan]

Your post has several things worth discussing in it. You're right...of the kids who went to the art museum, few will become artists. Yet, exposing kids to art is definitely a worthwile thing to do. It's history, as well.

As for your English major stuff, I have a Masters in English. I don't write poetry or novels. I've been a computer programmer with my own software company. My degree in English helped me very much with that, since programming languages are just that...languages. Having learned the importance of syntax in English, I had little trouble with it in computer languages.

I also spent about 25 years writing for various magazines. I wrote articles that taught people how to do things, from home repair to fine woodworking to using computer technology. I made a fine living doing that.

Again, the skills I learned as an English major served me very well in that field. I had learned to be consise in my language, and how to write in a way that actually led my readers through whatever thing I was teaching them.

These days, I use those skills to sell miscellaneous stuff on eBay. My items generally sell for quite a bit more than the same items listed by others. Why? Because I can write a good description.

I have a couple of websites, plus a blog that is actually generating quite a bit of money for me these days. All because I can write well.

Don't discount English majors. They're working in all sorts of places, doing all sorts of things.

[Gulf War One]

"Odd...the Taliban ran Afghanistan like this."

"Not even close", you said.

It may not be close, but it is a step down the same damn slippery slope.

[djf]

Beautiful.

My love of art is in the literal, and even though some here might have a few nasties to throw out, I'm inclined to think Oscar Wilde is one of the greatest writers ever. His Salome is superb, the textures and touches are as real as any I've ever had in real life.

And as far as the religious aspect goes, hey, this is all part of being human, a spiritual creature with a physical existence, there is reason and purpose behind it all.

I don't think God ever meant us to be unfeeling machines who could never be hurt, or ever give pleasure.

[Boiler Plate]

If it had been the Smithsonian Hirshhorn I could see this, but for the most part you don't always know what you are going to find in an art museum.

[Borges]

English is the most wide-ranging pursuit. All the other humanities come through English...history, philosophy, psychology. People think in language so having a firm command of your own language and those who have used it best increases the efficiency and your of your thought.

[meandog]

(PRUDE ALERT) Shades of John Ashcroft...wonder what the parents' reaction would have been should the kids have seen a new mom breastfeeding her infant?

[leilani]

It doesn't justify her termination, but it sure raises suspicions that there is probably more to it than what her reps are claiming in this article.

Remember, the district is restricted from publicizing reasons for termination - empl. privacy/union rules etc. The fact that other teachers & the principal evidently had problems with her, not just one or two nutsoid parents & a Taliban schoolboard, tells me a lot.

The claim that the schoolboard in Frisco TX would throw her overboard for taking kids on a preapproved field trip to the Dallas Museum is not ringing true.

[BLS]

Reading this whole article, this was an approved school field trip, permission slips signed by parents and the whole bit. The teacher should not have lost her job.

[AnAmericanMother]

Ein Wiener.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Where's your blog URL?

[Mrs. Don-o]

"A muslim would have never ever signed a permission slip for thier children to go to the museum its unislamic according to them'"

It makes sense that they wouldn't sign a permission slip --- however I don't always expect them to make sense.

[GovernmentShrinker]

It has happened more than once!