Look at what I drew in school, mom....

[Marie5656]

I have a feeling this artwork will not be showing up on any refrigerator doors any time soon....



Teacher reassigned for anatomy drawings



YONKERS, N.Y. - A teacher has been barred from classes after having his seventh-grade students draw male genitalia on the blackboard during health class, a school spokeswoman said Friday.

The teacher, whose name was not made public, was assigned to administrative duties and Superintendent Bernard Pierorazio will ask trustees to fire him, said Yonkers school spokeswoman Jerilynne Fierstein.

"There was no way we were going to let him be in front of children," she said.

Fierstein said the state's seventh-grade curriculum calls for lessons in human anatomy and sexuality, but "as a teacher you have to be sensitive and you have to look at the age-appropriateness of any activity that you ask a child to do. And this was just not appropriate."

Fierstein said the administration learned of the drawings, which occurred in a class of boys and girls at the Pearls Hawthorne school, when a parent complained.

Trustees will consider the teacher's firing at a March 21 meeting, she said.

Pierorazio issued a statement saying, "I will not tolerate insensitive, inappropriate behavior by any staff member toward our students. Every student's physical and emotional well-being is paramount in our decision making, therefore immediate action was taken."

[RedGlitter]

I don't see a big problem with this. Just check inside any teenage kid's Pee-Chee folder.

[chonsigirl]

You know, they just put an art teacher on administrative leave because they took a field trip to an art museum. And there were nude statues and pictures there among the other art objects. Now, I do not know the age group, but what do they think is in an art museum? It makes me afraid to take my science students on any field trip, like the zoo or anywhere else!

[chonsigirl]

Ghads, if they saw the notes these kids pass!

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I learned long ago, to empty my pockets before going home from school. I forgot once, and got home and of course there were lots of student notes I had grabbed during the day. One had some explicit drawing on them, and my son picked it up. Oh brother!

I only tell a parent if there is something really important in the note, otherwise, it is good blackmail to make them behave the rest of the class...............

[RedGlitter]

I think this is sad because it puts forth the notion that body parts are indecent. Especially sad because it was in a health class. Now what exactly is the difference between seeing diagrams of penii and uterii inside the health textbook and actually drawing an image of same? Should we be ashamed of our hands and mouths too since they could be used as sex tools?



Chonsi, as soon as I read your comment I got an image of ahem....mad monkey sex at the zoo. You know that would happen the day you chose to take your students there! :wah:



Was the art teacher a teacher in your own school? I think that's terrible that they would do that to this teacher. Sometimes I swear there's no common sense left in the world.

[Lulu2]

Chonsi...your zoo reference made me remember a tour I once did for a Christian school.

As we passed the Galapagos tortoises, I looked over and saw that "Bubba" was mounting another tortoise. Cleverly decided to IGNORE that, I tried to steer their attention away, but the teacher said, "OH, LOOK, boys and girls, that tortoise is climbing a rock!"

A Galapagos tortoise makes a loud ROARING sound when he's copulating and good old Bubs began to do just that. It became pretty obvious that he wasn't "climbing a rock" at ALL! The children stood with mouths AGAPE!

"You brought it up," I laughed.....and we had a discussion about making baby tortoises.

We've dealt with childrens' curiousity as we've seen blatant copulations, oral sex, rhinos with erections, elephants with the old "fifth leg" dragging on the ground, etc. It's life!

[chonsigirl]

LOL Climbing a rock!

I know the chimps at our little zoo are always mischievous, and throw their leftovers around. Middle school kids just laugh alot, but you never know what a parent will say.

I remember one field trip, where I had to reprimand the parent-for wrestling with a student on the bus!

[Lulu2]

"CHILDREN! STOP WRESTLING!"

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