In the city of Frisco, Texas–a booming area north of Dallas–it appears that no nudes is good nudes, even if that nude is a centuries-old work of art such as that featured above. Reportedly, a parent of a fifth-grade student was put out that her child was exposed to such shocking material during a field trip to the Dallas Museum of Art last Spring and complained to the school principal, who subsequently took disciplinary action against the “offending” teacher who had led the school-approved field trip. Read on, if thou art willing to be truly offended…
Museum Field Trip Deemed Too Revealing
“Keep the ‘Art’ in ‘Smart’ and ‘Heart,’ � Sydney McGee had posted on her Web site at Wilma Fisher Elementary School in this moneyed boomtown that is gobbling up the farm fields north of Dallas.
But Ms. McGee, 51, a popular art teacher with 28 years in the classroom, is out of a job after leading her fifth-grade classes last April through the Dallas Museum of Art. One of her students saw nude art in the museum, and after the child’s parent complained, the teacher was suspended.
Although the tour had been approved by the principal, and the 89 students were accompanied by 4 other teachers, at least 12 parents and a museum docent, Ms. McGee said, she was called to the principal the next day and “bashed.�
She later received a memorandum in which the principal, Nancy Lawson, wrote: “During a study trip that you planned for fifth graders, students were exposed to nude statues and other nude art representations.� It cited additional complaints, which Ms. McGee has challenged.
The school board suspended her with pay on Sept. 22.
In a newsletter e-mailed to parents this week, the principal and Rick Reedy, superintendent of the Frisco Independent School District, said that Ms. McGee had been denied transfer to another school in the district, that her annual contract would not be renewed and that a replacement had been interviewed. [full text]
I suppose the good news is that the reactionary extremists who are running the schools down in Frisco opted not to behead Ms. McGee and circulate footage of her execution on the Internet. Perhaps that would only be the penalty for exposing students to the theory of evolution or Huckleberry Finn.
Kmareka.com 
There is a certain segment in American society that is not only anti-science, but they are also anti-art, anti-intellectual, anti-learning, anti-anything-that-may-alter-their-warped-perception-of-the-world.
This has happened many times before in history and it has always turned out very badly.
When you start burning books, you end up burning people.
good thing Ms. McGee didn’t take the kids to the Wunderground exhibit at the RISD museum. there are images there that are almost as shocking as the stuff they see on tv and in magazine ads.
Andre is right.
Be afraid. Very afraid.
And avoid soccer stadiums. Seems like whenever they “eliminate” problems, it happens in the basement of the soccer stadium.