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[bob]

FRISCO, Texas -- An 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.

[wvhsparent]

I just got back from a course at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
One thing that was brought up is that different parts of the country have vastly different values...Texas seems to be leading the way in puritan values...IMHO.

So this does not surprise me at all....

[warriorpride]

Apparently they don't indroduce sex-ed in TX until at least 6th grade

[cantretirehere]

wvhsparent said:

I just got back from a course at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
One thing that was brought up is that different parts of the country have vastly different values...Texas seems to be leading the way in puritan values...IMHO.

So this does not surprise me at all....

Let's not blame puritan values or the values of the good people of Texas for this event. There is nothing wrong with high morals. Seems more like this one needs to get chalked up to stupidity. That's something we find that all over this great country of ours.

1. It's an art museum. Anyone who knows ANYTHING about history and art knows that an art museum is going to have depictions of naked people. Sheesh.

2. The school approved the field trip.

3. The parents said it was okay for the kid to go.

If I were that teacher and could prove that non renewal of my contract had to do with the field trip, I'd sue their asses.

[wvhsparent]

Just for FYI
I did not mean to say Texas was right or wrong...just different