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Suspend the arts…

Sep 26, 2006
Author: James
Education

Sydney McGee,a 28 year veteran teacher of a Dallas area elementary school, is on leave with pay following a recent field trip to a local art museum. Why? Well because ONE parent complained about a statue that their child spotted while at the museum… it was NUDE!!!!! The school board has planned not to renew her contract when it expires at the end of the year. Keep in mind this was an ART class, and that a field trip must be planned ahead of time and approved by the school board.

Welcome to REAL LIFE people, we ALL have body parts… and as an artist I can tell you there is nothing gross, inappropriate or disgusting about the human body. If these kids had seen a statue of two people in the middle of some wild sexual act, I could see there being an issue… but they weren’t it was simply a nude.

Nude Bronze Statue of David Saint Peter

3 Comments

  1. ken  •  Sep 26, 2006 @3:58 PM

    It was a field trip, so ostensibly there was a permission slip. Perhaps future permission slips should read, “Warning: Art museums include material that may be offensive to stupid puritanical morons.”

  2. Seth Rubenstein  •  Sep 27, 2006 @9:26 AM

    Or perhaps the slip should address this parents concerns. “Warning: Art museums include material that may be naked in nature, therefore if your child sees such material he or she may then go around whoring the entire class and will probably either get pregnant or impregnant someone, Thank You and have a nice day”

  3. Matt  •  Feb 13, 2007 @6:38 PM

    What it boils down to is a school board caving in to the ravings of a single parent (”Golly, them people IS Naked!!”) instead of saying this is a intergral part of our culture, i.e. art. Have our society decayed so much? Apparently its not just the kids that need educated here. Narrow or close minded parents are found everywhere..

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