Why we need Art in Grade Schools

What boy hasn’t had fantasies or dreams about carrying on with a hot teacher?

cough

Besides me, of course. I don’t subscribe to those sort of chauvinistic, insenstive, and objectifying ideals. But I digress…

For those of you who didn’t hear about the 23-year old florida teacher who did all sorts of crude things with a 14-year old student, you can catch up here. Anyway, the court case against the woman is proceding and so some evidence is starting to come out. Among other things, some audio and a transcript from a phone call can be found here. In looking through The Smoking Gun’s files on the topic, though, something stuck out…

This kid… 14 years old… he can’t draw for shit.

I mean, I’m no artist… but I swear to Paris Hilton^[#] that I’ve been able to draw a better diagram than that since I was 10.

I’d love to see what Maddox would have to say on the topic.