Art Teacher Fired After Museum Field Trip

An art teacher is out of a job after one of her students saw nude art in the museum on a field trip to the Dallas Museum of Art.

The Wilma Fisher Elementary School teacher, Sydney McGee, had been teaching for 28 years but was suspended after a complaint from the parent of a student on the trip.

Although the tour had been approved by the principal, McGee says she was called to the principal the next day and 'bashed'. She later received a letter in which the principal, Nancy Lawson, wrote: "During a study trip that you planned for fifth graders, students were exposed to nude statues and other nude art representations".

A representative of the Texas State Teachers Association, which has come to McGee's defense, calls it the first 'nudity-in-a-museum case' they have seen.

"Teachers get in trouble for a variety of reasons", says the association's Kevin Lungwitz, "but I�ve never heard of a teacher getting in trouble for taking her kiddoes on an approved trip to an art museum".

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