Post by Logan on Apr 28, 2016 2:56:42 GMT -6
Saying 'vagina' got me fired, Battle Creek middle school teacher says
Vagina. It's a noun describing female anatomy that caused such outrage in the Michigan Legislature in 2012 that a legislator was blocked from speaking after using it.
Now, a substitute teacher says using it got her fired from a Battle Creek middle school after she said it in an art history lecture — though administrators rejected that claim and say there were other policy issues that they can't specify.
Allison Wint, who had been teaching art at Harper Creek Middle School since January, says she was speaking about a broader topic of controversy in art when she held up reproductions of paintings by Georgia O’Keefe, some of which have been seen as erotic.
At some point, Wint remembers saying: “Imagine walking into a gallery when (O’Keefe) was first showing her pieces, and thinking, ‘Am I actually seeing vaginas here, am I a pervert? I’m either a pervert or this woman was a pervert.’ ”
Read more: www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/michigan/2016/04/26/teacher-says-vagina-in-class-battle-creek-vword/83571076/
Vagina. It's a noun describing female anatomy that caused such outrage in the Michigan Legislature in 2012 that a legislator was blocked from speaking after using it.
Now, a substitute teacher says using it got her fired from a Battle Creek middle school after she said it in an art history lecture — though administrators rejected that claim and say there were other policy issues that they can't specify.
Allison Wint, who had been teaching art at Harper Creek Middle School since January, says she was speaking about a broader topic of controversy in art when she held up reproductions of paintings by Georgia O’Keefe, some of which have been seen as erotic.
At some point, Wint remembers saying: “Imagine walking into a gallery when (O’Keefe) was first showing her pieces, and thinking, ‘Am I actually seeing vaginas here, am I a pervert? I’m either a pervert or this woman was a pervert.’ ”
Read more: www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/michigan/2016/04/26/teacher-says-vagina-in-class-battle-creek-vword/83571076/