Teacher Suspended For Being Artistic
Have you heard about this guy? He paints with his body parts so the school district he works for placed him on administrative leave.
Chesterfield County school officials have suspended a teacher they say may be setting a bad example for students through his outside artistic activities.
Stephen Murmer is a self-described “butt-printing artist.”
He creates floral and abstract art by plastering his posterior and genitals with paint and pressing them against canvas.
His cheeky creations sell for hundreds of dollars.
But Murmer is also known as a popular, joke-cracking art teacher at Monacan High School.
Chesterfield County schools spokeswoman Debra Marlow says school system regulations state that teachers must set an example for students through their personal conduct.
Murmer was placed on administrative leave on Friday.
Here’s a teacher who paints on his own time, away from the students, not involving the students, not harming the students, and he gets removed from his job.
How many teachers go home and get comfortable with a bottle of Jack Daniels or some other bottle of their favorite liquor?
How many teachers smoke? How many teachers use language that wouldn’t be appropriate around students?
How many teachers do things that would not “set an example for students through their personal conduct”?
If they do these things away from the school, and the students are not affected by them, does it matter? Should they all be removed from their positions and put on “administrative leave”?
Don’t we have a shortage of good teachers as it is? If we remove everyone whose personal conduct would not set an example for students, our schools would be void of teachers.
Heh. Some might think they already are.