Utah teacher to appeal firing after students see nudity in art

[oberliner]

A Utah art teacher says he will appeal a decision to fire him after his sixth-grade students saw nudity in classical paintings.

The Herald Journal newspaper reported Thursday that Mateo Rueda was fired after police came to the school to investigate a classroom-pornography complaint filed over the educational postcards at the elementary school library in Hyrum.

Rueda says he didn't know some works on the postcard set contained nudity, and took them away when they made students uncomfortable. Police say prosecutors determined the Impressionist and Rococo nudes aren't pornography.

http://www.sltrib.com/news/2017/12/29/teacher-to-appeal-firing-after-students-see-nudity-in-art/

[Achilleaze]

1. republican "values" are so twisted

sad

[msongs]

2. utah is the #1 internet porn using state is it not? nt

[Sneederbunk]

3. Yes, but postcards are a whole new ballgame.

[RKP5637]

4. Yep, "psychological projection" at its best. It's not me, it's those postcards. Damn, we often

live in such ridiculous times. I'm glad to see the teacher standing his ground! Hey, let's look at republican values, wow, look at our grand leader. I think children should be shielded from him as obscene.

[Igel]

10. It happens more often than you'd think.

Parents and kids are being conditioned to look for things to take offence at, because intended offence is entirely up to the perceiver. Or intention doesn't matter. And when it's a point of pride and Instagram or Youtube celebrity to go on about being offended, the culture's set up for a real freezing and fracturing of social solidarity.

[RKP5637]

13. Definitely ... and so dangerous. "the culture's set up for a real freezing

and fracturing of social solidarity." Today the tools are available for mass group think, almost instantaneously. And, then AI can hone the message thereby increasing adherents IMO.

[GoneOffShore]

5. The comments on that article are overwhelming in favor of the teacher.

And seeing as it's Salt Lake City, that is pretty unusual.

[oberliner]

6. Salt Lake City is liberal

Voted overwhelmingly for Hillary over Trump.

[crazycatlady]

7. I wonder if they teach Michaelango

His work is on exhibit at the Met right now, and so many naked men. So many dicks.

[oberliner]

8. To 5th and 6th graders?

I doubt it.

Edit to Add: I stand corrected - lots of "Michelangelo for kids" stuff out there.

[Igel]

11. Are you sure it's not about a turtle?

For a lot of people, that's the only Michelangelo that matters.

[procon]

9. Bodies in war porn is OK, but the display of bodies in fine art is condemned.

How fucked up is a society that teaches that lesson to impressionable young minds?

[Initech]

12. Seriously??? This is why we can't have nice things!

[CTyankee]

14. Oh, jeez, here we go again.

I thought we won that war. Maybe not.

It's never won. Glad to see some fighting back, tho.

[oberliner]

16. He seems to have a lot of support

I have a feeling it will work out for him.

[ProudLib72]

15. They probably only want to show Soviet era "art"

Everything else doesn't fit into their agenda.