Teacher Sacked Over Nude Art

A Texas schoolteacher claims she was sacked after allowing her pupils to see a nude art work during an art gallery trip. A parent complained that his child had been exposed to "an abstract nude" - a Greek funerary relief from 4BC depicting a marble torso. Later, the teacher was sacked. But the school board, battling against criticism from the media, has defended itself, claiming that the row over nude art told only part of the story. The teacher took 89 students aged nine and 10 around the Dallas Museum of Art. The school board said they had been taking students to the Dallas Museum of Art for years and no teacher has ever been fired for that. The school alludes to other complaints against the teacher, but cannot go into details because of confidentiality agreements. It has only suggested that the teacher wore flip-flops to work and did not plan the field trip sufficiently. The plot has thickened further after the Dallas Morning News revealed that 8 years ago the teacher accepted an $8,300 (£4,446) settlement to leave a previous teaching job. The cause of the settlement is not known. For the full story - click the title Irish Art