Just some final thoughts on this thread - 1. Nobody said it was a nude female body that the students saw. 2. When you characterize the actions of a community as "nutty" and place religous connontations on their actions it insinuates a tendancy of the accusor to be biased against that religon. 3. Every parent regardless of religous background or ethnicity has the right to complain if they don't agree with something their child is exposed to regardless of where that exposure happens. 4. According to Wikipedia: "There is a large Protestant influence on the Dallas community. Methodist and Baptist churches are prominent in many neighborhoods and anchor the city's two major private universities. The Catholic Cathedral Santuario de Guadalupe in the Arts District oversees the second largest membership in the country. There is a vibrant Mormon community, which led the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to build the scenic Dallas Texas Temple in 1984. Many members of the Jewish faith have also contributed to the city for a long time. Dallas has a significant Muslim community and is also home to the Cathedral of Hope, the largest GLBT congregation in the world [27]. Also, Dallas is a home for two eastern Orthodox Christian temples." Frisco is a suburb of Dallas.
Now here is something interesting, in digging for updated articles I came across these two paragraphs, not printed elsewhere: District officials have said the museum field trip didn't spark reprimands of the teacher. They have repeatedly pointed to other performance issues. The district rejected McGee's request in August to transfer to another Frisco school. They said they didn't want to give her a chance to move elsewhere without addressing other issues, including lesson-plan preparation. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/4214639.html And here School officials deny they were reacting to the field trip but say there have been problems with McGee's work. http://wjz.com/watercooler/watercooler_story_269083828.html I also found this blog entry that includes quoted articles from both sides of the story: http://texased.wordpress.com/2006/09/02/what-a-mess/ That last link is a very interesting lead. The ISD is now saying that the parental complaint and field trip had nothing to do with the teacher's being put on suspension or having her contract let go. I found the link on this forum thread http://www.dallasnews.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2890 All *very* interesting reading and NONE of it religous. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:216267 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
