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Georgia school officials caught painting George Washington's crotch

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Harry Hope

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Oct 13, 1999, 3:00:00 AM10/13/99
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From The Hill, 10/13/99:
http://www.hillnews.com/features/opensecrets.html


Georgia school officials altered famous painting

People for the American Way thinks it's got the ideal punishment for
Georgia school officials who touched up Emanuel Leutze's famous
painting, Washington Crossing the Delaware.

Muscogee County school district officials, worried that Washington's
watch, lying across his right thigh, might be too suggestive, used
paint brushes to touch up the page in more than 2,300 history
textbooks used by the district's fifth graders.

"Kids are disciplined for defacing school textbooks, so let's make
the punishment fit the school officials' crime," said Carole Shields,
president of the People for the American Way Foundation.

"The superintendent should be kept after school to write on the
blackboard 100 times, `I will not deface public property.'"

Maybe it wasn't his watch after all.

Harry

"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he
made school boards."

Mark Twain


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