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 uproar has swamped Frisco school switchboards and prompted some Dallas-area television stations to broadcast images of statues from the museum with areas of the anatomy blacked out.
That's just great. Let's have the media reinforce the idea that nude art is indecent and deserving of censorship. Of course, the FCC would have probably fined them the maximum $325,000 had they broadcast the images uncensored.
As for those "additional complaints" cited by the principal, it's quite clearly a witch hunt:
In the May 18 memorandum to Ms. McGee, Ms. Lawson faulted her for not displaying enough student art and for “wearing flip-flops” to work; Ms. McGee said she was wearing Via Spiga brand sandals. In citing the students’ exposure to nude art, Ms. Lawson also said “time was not used wisely for learning during the trip,” adding that parents and teachers had complained and that Ms. McGee should have toured the route by herself first. But Ms. McGee said she did exactly that.
These Talibanical American nuts make me want to scream. It's the same idiotic mentality which brought about the destruction of the Buddha statues in Afghanistan in 2001. The only difference is these people are here among us.
crossposted at B3
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