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Fired art teacher learning the art of being smeared
Posted on October 6, 2006 2:13 PM
The inevitable whispers about Sydney McGee, Texas art teacher fired for (she claimed) taking her class to the Dallas Museum of Art where the 5th graders saw (gasp) nude artwork have begun.
They're spelling her name as McGee instead of McKee, and since I don't care enough to dig out the right one, I'm just going to call her Sydney like I have been.
Anyway, those whispers, right. She lost another teaching job too:
One parent told a school official her child was, “…suicidal prior to leaving that class. He was extremely frightened of her.�Her current school, Frisco ISD, also offered to give her a letter of recommendation too. This despite all kinds of complaints in her private personnel file, the same one being bounced around the Texas media now.
McKinney ISD paid McGee $8,300 to leave her job as a second grade teacher, at Glen Oaks Elementary. They also offered to give her a positive recommendation.
So is she an unfireable lemon of a teacher like our friend from Brooklyn, or is she a persecuted artist instead? Here's more "evidence" of Sydney's failings as a teacher...
“Children just weren’t excited to go to art,� says parent Lisa Zeigler. “When I heard my daughter say that I kind of crumbled inside, because this is somebody she was looking up to for guidance and direction, and she never got that. She had to get it from the substitute teacher.�Yeah, her daughter had to go to the substitute teacher for guidance and direction...which says a lot for Mommy's status in her little girl's eyes too. (*cough*Joan Crawford was from Texas too*cough*)
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