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Archive for October 5th, 2006

WON’T YOU THINK OF THE CHILDREN

That title’s all I got. I can’t really think of any way to make this funny. Award winning art teacher takes kids on field trip to art museum, kid sees rendered naughty bits, teacher loses job of 28 years.

TheDenverChannel.com – Education – Art Teacher Loses Job After Kids See Nude Sculpture

Of course, it’s Texas, so.

When Bush was caught saying “shit” on tape, Michael Medved was talking about the growing permissiveness of our culture, and how all crude language has become more acceptable, and he could think of no examples where a word in normal usage became less acceptable. I thought about it for a while and thought of one: “ejaculate”. And if the concept ever comes up again, I’ll have to remember this story about a teacher getting fired for letting a student see a statue.