Sunday, January 14, 2007
The Virginia high school teacher who spent his off hours smearing his privates with paint and selling the results in his off hours has been fired by unanimous vote of the local school committee: Teacher fired for creating butt art
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The "butt-printing artist" is getting his butt kicked out of the classroom. The Chesterfield County, Virginia, School Board has voted unanimously to fire high school art teacher Stephen Murmer. He has a thriving sideline business of creating abstract paintings with his rear end. He smears paint on his nether regions and presses them against canvas. His paintings sell for up to 900 bucks each. Murmer maintains that what he does is perfectly legal and is kept private from the students. But members of the school board said Murmer's butt painting activities could lead to disruptions in the classroom. Murmer's lawyer says the decision to fire the teacher amounts to a bad day for the constitution.
See, if he'd only confined himself to anti-Semitic raving and organizing, he'd probably still be employed.
This art teacher's mistake was to butt-paint abstract images instead of stamping anti-American political messages with his ass. In such case he could have claimed a viewpoint discrimination and consult with Andover MA school lawyers - he would still be teaching at his school.