N.Y. teacher barred for anatomy drawings

[shittyhambrgers]

* class=&quot;lrec&quot;&gt;<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="174" height="13"> <tbody><tr> <td align="center">&nbsp;</td></tr></tbody></table><p>YONKERS, N.Y. - A teacher has been barred from classes for having his seventh-grade students draw male genitalia on the blackboard during health class, school officials say.</p><p>The teacher, whose name was not made public, was assigned to administrative duties and Superintendent Bernard Pierorazio will ask trustees to fire him, Yonkers schools spokeswoman Jerilynne Fierstein said Friday.</p> <p>&quot;There was no way we were going to let him be in front of children,&quot; she said.</p> <p>Pierorazio said the teacher opened a lesson on human anatomy and sexuality by asking students in a class of boys and girls to volunteer to come to the board to draw male anatomy.</p> <p>Fierstein said the state's seventh-grade curriculum calls for the anatomy lessons but &quot;as a teacher you have to be sensitive and you have to look at the age-appropriateness of any activity that you ask a child to do. And this was just not appropriate.&quot;</p> <p>Fierstein said the administration learned of the drawings at the Pearls Hawthorne school when a parent complained.</p> <p>At least one parent said he did not believe the material was inappropriate.</p> <p>&quot;This is biology, it's anatomy, it's human sexuality,&quot; said Jon Klibonoff, who has a child at the school but not in the class. &quot;They're in puberty. They're aware of it on one level or another.&quot;</p><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070127/ap_on_re_us/anatomy_lesson">http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070127/ap_on_re_us/anatomy_lesson</a> </p><p><strong>so this is what it's come down to.. can't even teach anatomy in a health class. </strong></p><p><strong>now, in college, i took human sexuality, and the professor had us shout out slang terms for male and female anatomy, and sex. i'd never heard &quot;murder that pussy&quot; before that day. </strong></p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by shittyhambrgers on 1-27-07 @ 12:05 PM</span>

[Drunky McBetidont]

teachers need&nbsp;combat pay

[Don Stugots]

this stroy makes me worry about our society.&nbsp;

[shittyhambrgers]

<strong>Don Stugots</strong> wrote:<br />this stroy makes me worry about our society. <p>&nbsp;and this is in fucking NEW YORK!</p>

[Wallower]

This teacher was just explaining how the body works. I don't see what's so wrong with that. Besides, the kids have already been scratching pictures of dicks and pussys into their desks for years.

[Don Stugots]

<strong>shittyhambrgers</strong> wrote:<br /><strong>Don Stugots</strong> wrote:<br />this stroy makes me worry about our society. <p> and this is in fucking NEW YORK!</p><p> i know. if they are this uptight and dumb here what is the rest of the country trying to prevent teachers from teaching? how far away are we from seeing books being burned due to content. or is that happening and we dont know it? </p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by Don Stugots on 1-27-07 @ 1:32 PM</span>

[A.J.]

Health class was the most uncomfortable class ever.&nbsp; Moreso at a Catholic school.

[angelinad128]

<p>I can understand teaching the class and using books, but why would you have drawings on the blackboard?&nbsp; It's funny when it's done as a joke, but for teaching, I don't get it. There are plenty of pictures and diagrams in the textbooks.</p><p>And by NO Means am I uptight or a prude...</p>

[DonInNC]

My guess is that the point of the exercise was to get kids over the uneasiness of discussing sex in a classroom setting. We're really going backward as a society.

[FUNKMAN]

i think it became a problem when he started clearing the chalkboard with his tongue...

[DonInNC]

<strong>FUNKMAN</strong> wrote:<br />i think it became a problem when he started clearing the chalkboard with his tongue... <p>Or that he didn't draw it in free hand.</p><p>edit: the kid, I mean&nbsp;</p><span class="post_edited"></span><span class="post_edited"></span>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by DonInNC on 1-27-07 @ 2:05 PM</span>

[Midkiff]

If only he had known he would be fired, he could have just gone for the gusto- whipped it out, and had all the girls examine it first-hand.

[FUNKMAN]

<strong>DonInNC</strong> wrote:<br /><strong>FUNKMAN</strong> wrote:<br />i think it became a problem when he started clearing the chalkboard with his tongue... <p>Or that he didn't draw it in free hand.</p><span class="post_edited"></span><span class="post_edited">&nbsp;</span> <p>i think it also became&nbsp;an issue when he began using his erect penis for a pointer stick</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

[DonInNC]

<strong>FUNKMAN</strong> wrote:<br /><strong>DonInNC</strong> wrote:<br /><strong>FUNKMAN</strong> wrote:<br />i think it became a problem when he started clearing the chalkboard with his tongue... <p>Or that he didn't draw it in free hand.</p><span class="post_edited"></span><span class="post_edited">&nbsp;</span> <p>i think it also became&nbsp;an issue when he began using his erect penis for a pointer stick</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Especailly when he used said pointer stick to point out where his has a freckle.</p>