An award-winning Texas art teacher in Frisco, Texas who was reprimanded after one of her fifth-grade students saw a nude sculpture during a trip to a museum has lost her job. (Full Story)
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.
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perfect example of typical American narrow mindedness. A nation without a cultural heritage and obsessed about sex and sexuality is not able to appreciate real art. Those parents should also prevent their children from going to Europe to see for instance Venus from Milo and other "naked" sculptures.
We Europeans may only laugh at the poor ignorant Americans.....
What a sad and embarrassing testament to the over reaction of the religious right. To end a teachers career over a sculpture on display in a public museum that is one of the metroplex's showcase locations is truly shameful.
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