https://www.posetteforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=1314&p=19418#p19418 ----------------------------------- Visitor Thursday, 10 March 2005, 07:37 AM ----------------------------------- Very well said, Rayera. Like I was saying about being "protected" from the beauty of art and be a very dangerious thing. Such an incident that happened back when I in as I recall my eigth year in school so the ages of the students in that class were between 13 and 15 years old. The school year was coming to the end. Thinking back, I believe that we had less than a week left before the end of the term. There was not enough time left to start anything new, so my english litrature teacher was trying to occupy our remaining time in class with other little educational items. One thing he did during his summer vacations was to travel the world, so on this day he was delivering a slide show presentation of pictures he took while visiting Europe, he said that teh next day would be Asia and the day after Latin America. I was watching, listening, and enjoying the presentation of his European travels. I think that I was the only student who was enjoying it, the rest of the students were bored and ignoring the presentation. Then one particular slide came up, it was of a statue. He asked us if anyone of us could identify the statue. I did, it was the [i]Venus de Milo[/i]. He then asked me about the its history, I started to mention what I knew of it. His expression was one of suprise. That is when one of the other students, a boy, noticed the image on the screen and caused the rest of them to take notice as well. Their reaction to the sight of the nude Venus statue was to go wild, they grabed at the slide projector and broke it. They ripped off the slide magazine and spilled the slides on the floor. They boys and girls alike then started to fight for possesion of the slides which they were trying trying to find more images of the same images on. I remained in my seat well away from their activities. The teacher was not able to regain control of the situation, they were out of control. The only thing that stopped them was when the bell rang announcing the end of the session. The next day when it was time for the same class to begin, what do you think happened? The students came in as usual and were as roudy as usual, but the teacher was not there. A few minues after the final bell to signal the beginning of the session rang, the teacher came in along with one of the vice principals. The teacher then had to read an prewritten apology to the class, in which he had to acknowledge the terrible and permanent damage that his improper actions had caused to the students. None of the students who had misbehaved were ever disciplined for their actions. However, for the remaining few day of that school year, someone from administration always sat in all the clases of that teacher, to make sure that he does nothing else to harm the students. I know that his all sound quite ludicrous, but I can assure you that it did happen. And it was not an isolated incident either, somthing similar to that happened twice more during my time in that school. Pangor