Can You Learn About Art Without Seeing Naked Statues?

Apparently, some Texas parents think so:

FRISCO, Texas -- An award-winning Texas art teacher who was reprimanded after one of her fifth-grade students saw a nude sculpture during a trip to a museum has lost her job.

The school board in Frisco has voted not to renew Sydney McGee's contract after 28 years. She has been on administrative leave.
The teacher took her students on an approved field trip to a Dallas museum, and now some parents are upset.

The Fisher Elementary School art teacher came under fire last April when she took 89 fifth-graders on a field trip to the Dallas Museum of Art. Parents raised concerns over the field trip after their children reported seeing a nude sculpture at the art museum.

Hat tip: Cole Wakefield

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This is silly. If you sign a permission slip allowing your fifth grader to visit a major metropolitan art museum, you have to expect that he or she will see an artistic rendering of someone naked. Contact the Frisco Independent School District and tell them to reinstate andor formally apologize to Sydney McGee.