ART TEACHER FIRED OVER MUSEUM TRIP

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A Texas art teacher has been fired over a class trip she organized for her fifth grade students to a Dallas museum which happened to feature nude art.

Apparently, one parent complained about the presence of the nude art — gasp!

FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Like the artwork that teacher Sydney McGee insists she was fired for letting her students study, her former school says there’s more to her dismissal than is apparent at first glimpse.

McGee, who taught elementary school in this sprawling Dallas suburb, has drawn national sympathy and disbelief since claiming she was let go last month because a parent complained that their child saw a nude piece during a field trip to the Dallas Museum of Art.

Eighty-nine of McGee’s fifth-graders toured the museum during the April trip, which McGee concedes likely included nudes but was arranged as a chance to see Picassos and Piet Mondrians.

“It’s not a place of pornography, it’s art,” said McGee, 51, who has taught for 28 years and lists Oxford University among her graduate studies.

Some of the masterpieces of art dating back to the Renaissance featured nudes. Fifth grade students, in my opinion, are old enough to handle this.

Also, for the record, NUDE does not equal PORNOGRAPHY. The teacher deserves to be removed from suspension and, if her contract isn’t renewed, it should be for reasons other than this.

The element of liberal bias creeps into the story when CNN makes the following reference: “stereotypes of Texas conservatism run amok and the intemperate prudishness of suburban life.”

Really? One narrow-minded, myopic, pea-brained parent objects to this trip and CNN elects to broad-brush all Texas conservatives and suburbanites.

No one interjected politics into this except CNN. This may be the stereotype CNN has, but it certainly doesn’t match any reality I know.

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