Posted on 09/26/2006 9:33:20 AM PDT by Abathar
Children Were On School-Approved Field Trip
FRISCO, Texas -- A award-winning Texas art teacher who was reprimanded after one of her fifth-grade students saw a nude sculpture during a trip to a museum has lost her job.
The school board in Frisco has voted not to renew Sydney McGee's contract after 28 years. She has been on administrative leave.
The teacher took her students on an approved field trip to a Dallas museum, and now some parents are upset.
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. Parents raised concerns over the field trip after their children reported seeing a nude sculpture at the art museum.
The parents had signed permission slips allowing their children to take part in the field trip.
McGee's lawyer said the principal at Fisher Elementary School admonished her after a parent complained that a student had seen nude art.
McGee said the principal had urged her to take the students to the museum.
Now, McGee, who was honored with a Star Teacher Award two years ago, is on paid administrative leave until her contract with the school district expires in March.
Other parents are worried about the future of the art program at the school, which they cite as a reason for moving into the neighborhood.
"Our main concern right now is what's going to happen to the children and what's going to happen to the art program at Fisher Elementary. It is the best art program. That's the reason we moved to this neighborhood. It's because of the teachers," said Shannon Allen, parent. "It was a principal approved trip. What's the big deal?"
Officials with the Frisco school district declined to comment on the matter.
Exactly!!!! But that won't stop people from jumping on whatever bandwagon they fancy. This article smells a little fishy...as in an attempt to make a particular "group" appear as kooky as possible.
Of course, that pension she'd earn in two more years was no factor.[/sar]
On a related note, the Frisco School District is selling burkha's during it's October fund raising drive.
ROFLMAO!
Art museums are like that. I would have thought the parents were aware of that when they signed the persmission slips.
nuff sed
I bet you didn't know that even JFK was "ein Berliner".
This doesn't make sense. There must be a few facts missing.
Uh, the parents are morons?
The thing the bugs the crap out of me on this one is that the kids probably said something like "I saw a naked man sculpture" and the parents have never even been to the art museum anyways so the freaked out because the only "art" (note the quotes) that gets talked about on the news are crap like Britney Spears giving birth on a bear rug, a crusifix in a jar of urine, and bronzed Suri poo.
90% of Greek sculptures are nude. A good portion of renaissance era paintings are nude.
Art != Pornography
Pity the partents couldn't make that distinction.
I agree. Maybe the nude statue was having sex with another nude statue.
That depends - was it a Michaelangelo nude or a Mapplethorpe nude?
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When I was in college taking life drawing classes I can guarantee that none of us were particularly aroused by the model. These parents that are so upset need to learn the difference between naked and nude. The former is vulnerable, the latter is Artistic neither is pornographic.
JFK was a jelly donut?
BTW, I'm with the "there has to be more to this story" crowd.
the latter two
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