On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 09:08:16 -0700, Scott Gomez wrote:
>This has gotta be one of the most complex aspects of teaching in what would
>be High School here in the US. Uneven experience, moral and physical
>development and sexual awareness in students complicated by the widely
>varied (and often blinkered) expectations of parents and the general public.
My wife teaches art at the local school, and trying to simultaneously
satisfy a controversy-shy school board, religious conservative
administrators, rebelling teens and one's own sense of aesthetics and
artistic freedom makes for a tough balancing act. She had to take
down an exhibit a day early last year after a school administrator
objected to student editorial cartoons that were part of the exhibit.
A perpetual balancing act.
Private schools have it much easier in this regard. Vicki and I
currently have pieces on exhibit at the St. Andrew's-Sewanee School
art gallery, where the art program encourages students to take
artistic risks, and sees controversial subjects as fodder for
discussion, instead of a threat to community standards. I wish public
schools could be more like them.
OB zuiko note - my photograph in the exhibit was a macro photograph
of a Library card taken with OM-4T, Olympus auto bellows and 100/2.8
at f/11.
BBB
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B.B. Bean bbbean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Bean & Bean Cotton Co
http://www.beancotton.com
Peach Orchard, MO
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