good ol' Texas!

From this week's This Week:

A Texas school district fired a popular art teacher for taking her fifth-grade class to a museum where they saw nude statues. Sydney McGee, 51, who's been teaching for 28 years, says the Wilma Fisher Elementary School approved the trip to the Dallas Museum of Art, which receives more than 500,000 student visitors each year.

Days later, though, she received a memo from principal Nancy Lawson complaining that "students were exposed to nude statues and other nude art representations," after which her contract was not renewed. "I thought she was the greatest," said parent Maijken Kozcara. But "knowing Texas, the ways things work here, I wasn't realy amazed."

Kids can play games in which they blow people's heads off, but if they see a naked Michelangelo, for example, the world's over! Sad, sad, sad.

(Picture from the Cathedral Church of St. Peter, Exeter, England)