Art teacher suspended for teaching art
Why are Americans obsessed with sex? The lastest victim is a high school art teacher in Middletown, New York, who was suspended from his job for recommending that some of his advanced students consider taking figure drawing classes that included nude models.
The charge? Making "comments that students could construe as being of a sexual or personal nature...or using [his] position as a teacher to put students into any situation reasonably likely to make them feel uncomfortable because of the injection of sexuality into...the substance of [his] comments."
Only an obsessed-with-sex pervert would consider such a recommendation as one of a sexual nature or would feel that sexuality had been "injected" into the substance of the comments. And while I'm at it, so what if it was?
The students in this class viewed a number of nude drawings and paintings when they were in 9th grade art, so it isn't as though they are all shocked and enraged over the sight of a breast or a penis. It is the adults who are all aquiver over it. Indeed, it was one father who had a fit over the thought of his daughter seeing naked people, which is interesting, since attendance at the figure drawing classes was to be strictly voluntary.
There will now be hearings to determine whether to fire the teacher.
The charge? Making "comments that students could construe as being of a sexual or personal nature...or using [his] position as a teacher to put students into any situation reasonably likely to make them feel uncomfortable because of the injection of sexuality into...the substance of [his] comments."
Only an obsessed-with-sex pervert would consider such a recommendation as one of a sexual nature or would feel that sexuality had been "injected" into the substance of the comments. And while I'm at it, so what if it was?
The students in this class viewed a number of nude drawings and paintings when they were in 9th grade art, so it isn't as though they are all shocked and enraged over the sight of a breast or a penis. It is the adults who are all aquiver over it. Indeed, it was one father who had a fit over the thought of his daughter seeing naked people, which is interesting, since attendance at the figure drawing classes was to be strictly voluntary.
There will now be hearings to determine whether to fire the teacher.
posted by Diane at 5:37 PM
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This is really sad news. Here in redneckville, we still have parents trying to control the books that are bought for the school's library. They don't want any books my Toni Morrison and the Wizard books, oh NO. While viewing the list of latest books, I noticed that most of the books were books of minorities. Thankfully this round those parents lost, but all it's going to take is one vote extra for their side, and there were votes for book banning. I can imagine trying to allow our art teachers the freedom to present nudes. It would cause a major confusion. Again, that is a shame.
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zelda1, at
5:38 AM
I assume they want to ban Toni Morrison because of sex scenes, yes? But why The Wizard of Oz? Wait...let me guess--it's the witches, isn't it?
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Diane, at
9:56 AM
Maybe it's the munchkins...
That's horrid; what sort of idiotic people are raising kids these days, and passing on their senseless paranoia and perversion?
Good lord.
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Unknown, at
6:27 PM
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