Should "Butt-Printing" Teacher be Fired?

[Meathead]

and please no cheeky comments

Va. school board fires ‘butt-printing’ art teacher (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16557455/)

Paintings done during off-hours sell for as much as $900

RICHMOND, Va. - An art teacher whose off-hours work as a so-called “butt-printing artist” became widely circulated among high school students has been fired.

The Chesterfield County School Board, in a unanimous voice vote, fired Stephen Murmer at a meeting Tuesday night, spokeswoman Debra Marlow said.

In its decision, the board reasoned that students have a right to receive their education in an environment free from distractions and disruptions, Marlow said. The decision also is in keeping with court rulings that hold that teachers are expected to lead by example and be role models, she said.

Jason Anthony, Murmer’s attorney, called the vote “a bad day for the First Amendment.”

“Chesterfield lost a tremendous asset today,” he said.

Murmer, a teacher at Monacan High School, was suspended in December after objections were raised about his private abstract artwork, much of which includes smearing his posterior and genitals with paint and pressing them against canvas.

His paintings sell for as much as $900 each on his Web site.

[Gibby]

As long as he isn't doing this in front of his students or having his students do this in front of him then it really doesn't matter.

[35Pete]

He can print all he wants but there are still limits as to what affects his job.

[Gibby]

He can print all he wants but there are still limits as to what affects his job.

His right, his free time, and his own . . . err. . . tools he can do whatever the hell he wants. As long as he isn't demonstrating his technique in class there is no reason for him to be terminated.

[35Pete]

His right, his free time, and his own . . . err. . . tools he can do whatever the hell he wants. As long as he isn't demonstrating his technique in class there is no reason for him to be terminated.

There's the question. Does it affect the school environment? If it does then bye bye. If not then it is not the school's business.

[nehemiah]

smells statist in here.

[Gibby]

smells statist in here.

beat me to it. Ah Pete, he do love his government intrusion into the lives of private citizens, or is it citizens' privates? :D

[Meathead]

just knowing he paints with his peepee makes the students unable to learn the color wheel

[Gibby]

just knowing he paints with his peepee makes the students unable to learn the color wheel

those are some ****ed up kids.

[Mouldsie]

“Chesterfield lost a tremendous asset today,”

tehe

[SpikedLemonade]

$900.00 US for a painting done with one's ass, taint, balls and dick?

What the hell did I go to 10 years of post secondary education?

Can someone please post a sample of this guys "art"?

It probably makes great dinner conversation when hung in the diningroom.

"Oh, here the artist really rubbed his left testicle in any interesting way."

"His use of the colour brown seems limited to only his ass prints however."

[Lucidvizion]

I was about to say yes because I thought he was doing it at school.

PRIVATE ARTWORK (hehe!)

[BLeonard]

Hell, if I was making $900 on EBay for doing that, I would have QUIT the damn teaching job.

That being said, my question is, how did people find out about this interesting hobby of his? Was he in class, saying "In my spare time, I like to get naked and roll around on canvas, with paint covering my nuts and ass." If that's the case, OK, I have a problem with him bringing his personal life into the classroom. My bet is, the school stuck their nose into his personal life, as is usually the case... Schools are getting WAY too involved in what goes on outside of their buildings, if you ask me.

Recent example: I read that a kid came to school with a haircut that the principal didn't feel was appropriate. So, the principal took it upon himself to pull the kid out of school, drive him to a barber shop, and tried to force the kid to get a haircut.

Schools need to worry about what's going on INSIDE their walls, not outside them. Judging by some of these test scores, I'd say they already have their hands full, without worrying about stuff that takes place away from school.

-Bill

[JLB]

If you look upon her naked body you shall be struck blind.

http://news.softpedia.com/images/news2/The-Island-Actress-Scarlett-Johansson-Shocked-By-Her-Own-Breasts-2.jpg

So the decon in the 2nd row covering one eye said I'm gonna take a chance on the one eye anyway.