Teacher fired b/c students saw art at a museum
This infuriates me. Livid. What makes it worse, is that it’s in the North Texas area where I am ashamed to live.
The trigger? A 5th grade student on a field trip to the Dallas Museum of Art saw *gasp* a nude sculpture.
One parent complained.
You have to ask yourself where we are headed as a nation. The parents authorized the field trip via permission slips. We see violence everywhere around us and ppl are soiling their undies over uncovered sculptural flesh?!
Don’t get me wrong, I’m down with brutal lowbrow media too, but comparitively speaking on the ol’ pants-shittin’-meter… I see no cause for alarm, other than the heightened level of denial and repression we’re passing onto our kids.
I would love to see a study correlating geographic areas, educational levels, sexual openess vs. the level of violent or sexual crimes in the more ignorant repressed areas. I’m particularly interested in Europe’s statistics, where flesh is not a source of guilt and shame - I imagine the figures would be lower.