American Thinker: Like most media reporting on the story, People magazine presented disgraced teacher Mateo Rueda in a flattering light. He was recently fired from Lincoln Elementary School in Hyrum, Utah for showing young children nude “artwork.” He’s actually, we’re to believe, an intrepid martyr persecuted by prudish, uncultured rubes who can’t distinguish between porn and fine art. To prove its point, People printed a couple of the pictures shown to the fifth- and sixth-graders, one of which is a full-frontal female nude titled “Iris Tree.”
Only People obscured the woman’s nipples and nether region.
Apparently, adult readers shouldn’t see what the children saw.
Now the magazine is trying to obscure the truth. After I and others called People out on Twitter – I wrote, “If the ‘artwork’ Iris Tree really is appropriate for 10-year-olds, why are you blurring out part of the picture in your article?” – the image completely disappeared from the piece.
Thanks to Internet archiving and the computer function “print screen,” the evidence remains. more here
They should reveal the postings of the art teacher and that will be enough for a pitchfork mob to go after him.
When I was in 6th grade the ‘gifted’ students all went to see movies every month or two, I think from all the elementary schools in the Santa Monica-Malibu district. We saw Franco Zefferelli’s Romeo and Juliet, nothing censored. And we were supposed to see Great Expectations but the projector didn’t work, but we were able to see a movie called Lies My Father Told Me. I vividly remember a scene where all the kids gather around somebody’s window, watching a guy sucking on a woman’s breasts for several seconds before he sees the kids and closes the shutters. Later, the main kid’s mom is breastfeeding his young sibling and he asks if he can suck too. “No, only babies suck breasts.” “But I saw Mr. Smith sucking Mrs. Jones’s breasts!” Oops.
I am still traumatized, obviously. 🙂
Disgusting. A repressed pervert forces children to view nudes? That’s pretty much the basis for child molestation charges, right? Don’t let this guy near any kids in the future.
Hillary?
Hyrum is a quiet town, part farm town and part university commuter town for staff and faculty at Utah State University. I’d say that those kids parents are pretty knowledgeable of the world, and they know a twisted pervert when they see one. It certainly explains why someone so overqualified for the position would be so eager to be around children — unsupervised.
By the time I was 6 I had viewed many of the great art museums still standing in Europe, David and the Sistine stand out.
I am pretty sure that included a lot of nudes, however, it was my parents accompanying me on those trips, not some skuzzy artist with “dirty pictures”.
I have no problem with 10 year olds viewing nude art, clear it through the ‘rents first, eh?
What is it about him not understanding Utah?
I would rather read the Irrational Enquirer or the late great Weekly World News rags before I’d read a copy of Sheeple magazine.
The middle school my twins attended had a principal who was in thrall to an education huckster who advocated unorthodox methods for keeping the attention of students. One of these methods was for the teacher to climb up on student tables and lecture from there. My son complained that it was distracting and weird to have Mr. —– clomping around amongst the pencils and papers. I went to school and met with an assistant principal, who staunchly defended the creepiness. Until I asked if the female teachers did table dances, too. The shock was visible. The school no longer does this. Lefties never think things through to their logical conclusion.