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Oh, Texas, my home, sweet home. I've stopped going mad over your charming reactionary ways. Your flaws are what make you.
An art teacher at a Dallas suburban elementary school was fired after taking students on a field trip to the Dallas Museum of Art. You know how artsy some art can be, and, of course, you know Texas. Well, a child apparently complained to mommy and daddy about seeing some nudity in this so-called art. The teacher had to go.
The school administrators claim that the nudity fiasco is not the reason. Perhaps it is the flip-flops she wore to work. Ah, my Texas:
(source: Paul J. Weber for The Associated Press)
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Oh, Texas, my home, sweet home. I've stopped going mad over your charming reactionary ways. Your flaws are what make you.
An art teacher at a Dallas suburban elementary school was fired after taking students on a field trip to the Dallas Museum of Art. You know how artsy some art can be, and, of course, you know Texas. Well, a child apparently complained to mommy and daddy about seeing some nudity in this so-called art. The teacher had to go.
The school administrators claim that the nudity fiasco is not the reason. Perhaps it is the flip-flops she wore to work. Ah, my Texas:
Her dismissal resurfaced familiar stereotypes of Texas conservatism run amok and the intemperate prudishness of suburban life. In the words of one parent walking her child last week to Fisher Elementary School, McGee's former campus buffered by newly bricked McMansions and neatly manicured lawns, the story typifies "over-the-top America for you."
(source: Paul J. Weber for The Associated Press)
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Date: 2006-10-10 11:04 pm (UTC)From:that's dallas for ya. we're so closed-minded compared to you guys in the san antonio and austin area.
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Date: 2006-10-10 11:12 pm (UTC)From: