Art Teacher and District Reach Settlement

What a complete outrage that this teacher wasn't immediately reinstated (here's the link to the article a few weeks ago that I sent around: http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res=F70E10FA3C540C738FDDA00894DE404482)

October 25, 2006, NYT

Texas: Art Teacher and District Reach Settlement

By RALPH BLUMENTHAL

A veteran art teacher has reached a settlement with the North Texas school district that had suspended her after a student caught a glimpse of nude artwork on field trip. Under the settlement, approved Monday by the school board, the teacher, Sydney McGee, gave up her job but will be paid the balance of her $57,600 annual salary through next May. Ms. McGee, above, and the Frisco Independent School District agreed not to “disparage” each other, and the district agreed to add to her personnel file a 2004 letter of recommendation from a previous principal. The agreement ended a dispute that broke out after Ms. McGee led 89 fifth graders from Wilma Fisher Elementary School on a visit last April to the Dallas Museum of Art. Ms. McGee was berated the next day by the principal, Nancy Lawson, who later complained in a memorandum that “students were exposed to nude statues and other nude art representations, and time was not used wisely for learning during the trip.”