Christian taliban in the US

steeljack · 02-10-2006, 20:02

This is typical of the fundamentalist nuts who are now running America,
a teacher in Texas is fired for allowing students to see nude art on a Museum trip.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/30/ed...gewanted=print

Ianto.W. · 02-10-2006, 20:53

:engsmil: That is what I call a witch hunt, what next?:engsmil:

WillowTheWhisp · 02-10-2006, 22:42

That's ridiculous.

garinda · 02-10-2006, 22:46

Cultural red-neck fascists.

Frightening.

Nude art, whatever next?

Better get out the magnolia paint to repaint the Sistine Chapel ceiling.

SPUGGIE J · 02-10-2006, 23:32

I am dumbfounded at this carry on. If the kids,their parent, the school head new it was an art museum then why let them go. There is always a chance that there will be some kind of nude especially sculpture. Good job Michaelangello's David aint in this town as they would have him in a pare of shorts and a basketball vest.

garinda · 02-10-2006, 23:40

I checked out the Dallas Museum of Art's website.

Fantastic collection of Van Gogh's, but ne'er an offensive winky or tuppence to be seen.

http://www.dallasmuseumofart.org/Dal..._Art/index.htm

garinda · 02-10-2006, 23:49

I've been to exhibitions that certainly aren't fit viewing for an eleven year old child, one by the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe at the ICA springs to mind, but age related i-d was needed to gain access to that, but the art in this gallery is a selection of some of the best art mankind has ever created.

SPUGGIE J · 02-10-2006, 23:51

I have had a nosey and found nothing offensive. If that museum was close to me with the exhibits it has I would have no qualms taking my daughter.

garinda · 02-10-2006, 23:57

Perhaps the worried parents would prefer to take little Junior to the more wholesome National Firearms Museum, also in Dallas.

http://www.nationalfirearmsmuseum.org/

SPUGGIE J · 03-10-2006, 00:00

Being Texans they would consider a rail gun a work of art the sad sods that they are. Fine art is there to be admired, savoured and respected not as an excuse to send someone to a welfare queue.

Neil · 03-10-2006, 06:08

Did you read it all? The school are saying that they would not sack a teacher over the incidental viewing of nude art by a pupil and that the teacher is 'waving that banner'. They say she is suspended for performance issues not the art thing.

WillowTheWhisp · 03-10-2006, 07:36

There must be more to it than the art thing because that museum had been checked out by the head before the teacher went there so if there had been a complaint about nudity surely the buck would have stopped at the head, so to speak.

We'll probably never know because "teacher sacked for not beijing up to par" doesn't make good headlines does it?

garinda · 03-10-2006, 07:50

Quote:

Originally Posted by Neil

Did you read it all?

Yes.

She apparently wore 'flip-flops' as well.

That proves she was trying to turn those little kids into perverts, showing them those dog gone dirty devil's work statues.

WillowTheWhisp · 03-10-2006, 07:56

Ah but they were Via Spiga.

SPUGGIE J · 03-10-2006, 09:25

Quote:

Originally Posted by Neil

Did you read it all? The school are saying that they would not sack a teacher over the incidental viewing of nude art by a pupil and that the teacher is 'waving that banner'. They say she is suspended for performance issues not the art thing.

How can a teacher with 28 years experience have performance issues? That is always the easist way to dismiss someone from their job. Not long ago a guy I know was made redundent and put down to "performance issues" yet when you look at most of the others that got tapped it was the highest grade and pay in their respective areas or the job. The other being that the job no longer existed yet the responsibilities ended up with a person on a lower grade and pay.