School board skates onto naked ice

[simonsebs]

School board skates onto naked ice
(http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/editorial/story.html?id=33a5308b-5b03-4820-9a4f-d844a0b7480c)

It would help if the author went into a little more detail. But if this is what I think it is, then they are right this is taking things too far. If some of our Canadian friends know what going, please tell us.

[Nudist Coop]

My question is (and anyone is free to point me in the right direction if I read this wrong) why would you let them go to a known clothes-optional beach if you don't want them skinny-dipping? Really, I don't see a problem with it, but if you think mere nudity is harmful, wouldn't a "regular", clothes required beach be the better option?

[Nude in the North]

I guess I would have to actually read the mandate before I could understand this article.

I doubt any teachers were taking class trips to Wreck Beach. I doubt they were filling their classrooms with nude art or pictures.

I'm just guessing , but I imagine the school board is just taking preemptive measures out of fear of legal action in some unlikely future scenario.

With any luck, they will succeed in raising a generation of children ignorant of the anatomical differences between male and female.

[Naturist Mark]

In the USA public school students are required to turn in signed parental permission slips in order to leave the school for any field trip. So I don't see how this could even be an issue here ... if the unimaginable happened and a school trip went to a c/o beach - only those with parental approval would be attending.

Of course in the USA a teacher could very well get into trouble for even mentioning the existence of nude beaches or nudism.

-Mark

[Joontiki]

Hmm. That article sure does leave you hanging. No information there! I'm from Vancouver, and i didn't hear about this. But then again, i don't keep up with the news. I'll ask my partner, who does. Maybe he's heard something about it.

[nimrod]

The article does leave me with alot of questions. Is this a preemptive strike as Nude in the North brings up, or was there a teacher wanting to go on a field trip to a c/o beach, or did and this is after the fact, or is it just being discused in the class room like, "Did you know that there are some people that skinny dip and this is what they believe."? To many unanswered questions.

[Joontiki]

Hmm. That article sure does leave you hanging. No information there! I'm from Vancouver, and i didn't hear about this. But then again, i don't keep up with the news. I'll ask my partner, who does. Maybe he's heard something about it.

Ok, i asked my partner, and he does remember something about it. But he doesn't know if it is this particular incident we are talking about or not though. . .

In a nutshell: A male highschool teacher who also was a "Quest" leader, took his students skinny dipping. BUT, one student (then a few more former students) came forward saying that they had sex with the teacher. That they had "parties" on his boat. The school board created a mandate that teachers were not allowed to take kids skinny dipping.

If this is indeed the correct incident, then this is not as much about nudism as as it is about sex & abuse of power.

As far as i'm concerned, in this textile world we live in, it is highly inappropriate for a teacher to take kids skinny dipping. One would think it would be common sense that they shouldn't be doing this. Because we can never be inside people's heads, and in this case, he actually was a sexual predator... they end up creating new laws & mandates that are just going to set things even further back for naturism. It's unfortunate.