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|date_of_action=January 2006-May 2007 | |date_of_action=January 2006-May 2007 | ||
|location=Middletown High School, Middletown, NY. | |location=Middletown High School, Middletown, NY. | ||
|description_of_content=Highschool art teacher Peter Panse encourged his students to take nude-figure drawing courses | |description_of_content=Highschool art teacher Peter Panse encourged his students to take nude-figure drawing courses to build their portofolios and help them with their applications to art colleges. Thereafter, four students have attended nude figure drawing lessons at the New York Academy of Art during the summer, which helped earn at least one of them a scholarship offer. | ||
|description_of_incident=The teacher was given a 15-day suspension as "the kids are too young for such classes, and Panse didn't involve their parents" (school board President Vincent Crescenzo). The school was "proactive" in light of previous scandals of teacher-student sexual relationships such as the Robert Sigler case. | |description_of_incident=The teacher was given a 15-day suspension as "the kids are too young for such classes, and Panse didn't involve their parents" (school board President Vincent Crescenzo). The school was "proactive" in light of previous scandals of teacher-student sexual relationships such as the Robert Sigler case. | ||
|description_of_result=Panse returned to the classroom in February 2007 and sued the school district over suspension, the violation of his rights and the public embarassment that followed. | |description_of_result=Panse returned to the classroom in February 2007 and sued the school district over suspension, the violation of his rights and the public embarassment that followed. |
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