Posted by:
yummy
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Date: December 31, 2017 10:02AM
I find a couple of things interesting.
-That the pictures to be prohibited were in the kids' library, and it was the teacher, not the librarian or principal, who was fired.
-That only female nudes were in the collection.
-That no concernerd parent knew the content of art in the school lihrary.
-That anyone would be able to differentiate between differentiate these images given out in an off-hand classrom setting, or in a "private session" with a single child. The former could be considered grooming for the latter. We are talking eleven and twelve year olds. Taking them on a field trip where nudity is a part of the artwork being displayed is a very different situation to giving a child a nude picture to carry around in a backpack, to take home and share with possibly even younger children, or play show and tell with a horny older teenage neighbor or sibling, to ask questions of a teacher in an after-classes session.
I don't think that the teacher is necessarily "guilty" of anything except possibly apathy or poor judgement. On the other hand, I think his firing is a red herring to detract from the fact that the artwork has likely been in that library for a long time. Was the art a part of a set appoved and purchased by the district, part of a donated collection? In any case, the ignorance of the teacher is believable, because apparently, so was the ignorance of most other adults giving care to those children.
One can only wonder how long it will take how many RS ladies to clean up that den of iniquity.
https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1981.317/btw, I have no problem teaching children art, including nudity, but to do it in such an uncontrolled and careless way is another thing. Little girls being "laid bare" with the little boys sitting next to them, without preparation, explanation or context is just plain unhealthy, especially when one considers the lack of naked penises in the collection. That would have made it no more "right," given the lack of education to go along with the nudes, but the one-sided presentation adds to male entitlement at a very impressionable age. Little girls sell cookies, little boys go camping, right?
The teacher was scapegoated. No other way for me to see it. If he was "guilty," so were a lot of other adults.