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  1. 1701
    Name: Amanda Coffelt on Sep 7, 2006
    State: GA
    Country: US
    Comments: Leonardo Da Vinci said whomever masters drawing the human figure can master drawing anything.
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  2. 1702
    Name: Anonymous on Sep 8, 2006
    State: CO
    Country: US
    Comments:
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  3. 1703
    Name: Julius Francis on Sep 8, 2006
    State: FL
    Country: US
    Comments: I'm a retire teacher and administrator of a local school district here in Florida. When will we learn that education must be free in order for mankind to aggressively reach its full potential. If parents were involved in the process, I do not have the right to object to the participation of the students.
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  4. 1704
    Name: Brett Panelli on Sep 8, 2006
    State: CA
    Country:
    Comments: As an instuctor of head and figure drawing, the actions of Pete Panse seem to me to be nothing more than resposible. I urge the school board to reverse the suspension of Pete Panse and reinstate an obviously dedicated and inspired teacher.
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  5. 1705
    Name: Janice Gossman on Sep 8, 2006
    State: NJ
    Country: US
    Comments:
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  6. 1706
    Name: Michael Sacco on Sep 8, 2006
    State: NY
    Country: US
    Comments: As a fellow art teacher I applaud Mr. Panse actions on behalf of his students. He is only helping them to develop and grow as artists. This action by the Board is absurd and should be halted immediately.
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  7. 1707
    Name: Wendy Free on Sep 9, 2006
    State: FL
    Country: US
    Comments:
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  8. 1708
    Name: Marsh Gegerson on Sep 9, 2006
    State: FL
    Country:
    Comments: There is a difference between nudity as God created us and sensuality where there is a clear message of sexuality They are not to be confused. Mr. Panse's students have received the highest training for a competetive field. It is to be applauded.
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  9. 1709
    Name: Rebecca Burch on Sep 9, 2006
    State: WV
    Country: US
    Comments: It's a sad day for education when those in charge can't tell the difference between art and pornography. And it's not like he brought the models into the classroom! He merely recommended that these students take additional figure-drawing classes in an academic setting.
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  10. 1710
    Name: Marleigh Atherton on Sep 9, 2006
    State:
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  11. 1711
    Name: Victoria Magee on Sep 10, 2006
    State: WI
    Country: US
    Comments:
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  12. 1712
    Name: Lisa Gratton on Sep 10, 2006
    State:
    Country: CA
    Comments: It is important for art students to draw from life, it improves the quality and skill of the artist. I know from experience, being an Art Student myself.
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  13. 1713
    Name: Anonymous on Sep 10, 2006
    State: MA
    Country: US
    Comments: As a practicing artist and public school art teacher I am shocked at this incidence of prohibition of excellent teaching.
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  14. 1714
    Name: Lorraine Whittlesey on Sep 10, 2006
    State:
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    Comments: I find this suspension disturbing beyond belief. Is the human form a thing of shame or beauty Should we shut down the Louvre, The Metropolitan Museum, The Prado, so that those who are uncomfortable with these classical images can be appeased
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  15. 1715
    Name: Nicole Fall on Sep 10, 2006
    State: MD
    Country: US
    Comments: Public arts high schools teach figure drawing from the nude model. Contact some of them. Unless Mr Panse is guilty of something else reinstate him. What God-forsaken (and I mean that) planet are you all operating from
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  16. 1716
    Name: Nicole Fall on Sep 10, 2006
    State: MD
    Country: US
    Comments: Public arts high schools teach figure drawing from the nude model. Contact some of them. Unless Mr Panse is guilty of something else reinstate him. What God-forsaken (and I mean that) planet are you all operating from
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  17. 1717
    Name: Christina Manucy on Sep 10, 2006
    State: MD
    Country: US
    Comments: In a time when qualified an dedicated teachers are difficult to find, it's sad that one such teacher is suspended for encouraging his students to excell.
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  18. 1718
    Name: Lynne Steiner on Sep 10, 2006
    State: NJ
    Country: US
    Comments: Anyone with any kind of knowledge about art education should be aware that life figure drawing is an essential part of the education of an artist. Informing his students of this information is totally unrelated to sexual innuendo.
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  19. 1719
    Name: Pravina McClure on Sep 11, 2006
    State:
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    Comments: It is extremely important for representational artists to draw the nude as well as the clothed figure as much as possible.
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  20. 1720
    Name: Paulo Emiliano on Sep 11, 2006
    State:
    Country: PT
    Comments: No true artist can be a complete artist without nude lessons. That is fundamental. I thought witch hunt had been banished from civilised societies. Or is it that the school has muslim orientations Is the board fundamentalist It would be unthinkable here in Portugal in our Art Schools, and all over Europe, I believe, to forbid nude lessons!
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  21. 1721
    Name: Steve Jones on Sep 11, 2006
    State:
    Country: GB
    Comments: For goodness sake, grow up and stop being rediculous. Stop looking at the human body as being just a lump of muck. If that is what you think of it then get out of the teaching profession. Otherwise Reinstate The teacher immediately immediately. no delay. How dare you try and degrade his name with your warped views. I repeat - GROW UP!!!! I hope you understand the message!!!
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  22. 1722
    Name: Anonymous on Sep 11, 2006
    State: MD
    Country: US
    Comments: This suspension is ridiiculous and has made your school board the subject of world-wide ridicule. I don't believe that there is a magnet high school art program in the country where students would not be REQUIRED to take figure drawing at the second year level. I realize that Mr. Panse is not teaching at a magnet high school but his (former) students will have to compete with students from those high schools as well as many high schools around the world who are encouraged to draw from the nude. Drawing from the nude model has long been a part of a well-rounded education and is as important to the study of anatomy, medicine and bio-mechanics as it is for visual art. I have two teenaged children; my son has drawn from the nude since he was 15 (he is now in one of the top art colleges in the world) and my daughter, who would like to study medicine, has not yet drawn from the nude but knows that she has the option. By not allowing a teacher to suggest the possibility of drawing from the nude model, you are leaving your students in the Middle Ages or in a learning environment not unlike the worst of the Soviet Sociaist Republic. I hope that you will allow them to join with learners who have experienced The Renaissance and all that followed.
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  23. 1723
    Name: Joy Holmes on Sep 11, 2006
    State: AR
    Country: US
    Comments:
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  24. 1724
    Name: Brian McInnis on Sep 11, 2006
    State:
    Country:
    Comments: Sounds like a fine teacher. Surely there are some "legitimate" cases for the court to hear and issues for the school to pursue. Let this man do his important work!
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  25. 1725
    Name: Sylvia Nitti on Sep 11, 2006
    State: OK
    Country: US
    Comments:
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  26. 1726
    Name: Michael Kloepfer on Sep 11, 2006
    State: FL
    Country: US
    Comments:
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  27. 1727
    Name: R CABANO on Sep 11, 2006
    State: NY
    Country: US
    Comments: THAT THIS IS HAPPENING NOW IN THE 21ST CENTURY IS ALMOST BEYOND BELIEF
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  28. 1728
    Name: Michael Wiesmeier on Sep 12, 2006
    State: CA
    Country: US
    Comments: I am an instructor of animation and figure drawing at an animation college. I have been drawing from the figure since I was fifteen years old. This practice among artists is crucial to their development and it non-sensual, non-sexual, and always of the utmost in professionalism and respect between artist and figure model.
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  29. 1729
    Name: Cristina Mikulasek on Sep 12, 2006
    State: WA
    Country: US
    Comments: This is important! No one can excel in figurative art unless they work from life and study anatomy - understand how a real human body is arranged. And fortunately, if you want to express your self - your sense of life - in this way, there is now the possibility of making a living from it. But only if you do it well.
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  30. 1730
    Name: Mawi Gituma on Sep 12, 2006
    State: CA
    Country: US
    Comments: Its laughable and ridiculous that childrens artistic futures are witheld due to moral and religious status of a single parent towards his daughter. From my understanding Mr. Parse simply suggested ways that his students may be better artists and practice their skills. How this can be viewed as sexual in any way clearly presents the board as a circus show on a witch hunt
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  31. 1731
    Name: Nanci Sabino on Sep 12, 2006
    State: NH
    Country: US
    Comments: This is ridiculous. Mr. Panse, in advising students (with potential) to take a figure study course, is doing his job. I am an artist and HS art teacher. There is NOTHING sexual about studying the human form. If a parent has a problem with it, he should not allow it for HIS CHILD. This father is just a trouble maker looking for a cause to yell about. REINSTATE Mr. Panse.
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  32. 1732
    Name: Becca Shields on Sep 12, 2006
    State:
    Country:
    Comments: as a past high school art student, i spent many hours at the local college doing figure drawing, and honestly, i wish i had taken advantage of the opportunity earlier. that an art teacher is on trial for encouraging his students to develop their skills is just pathetic.
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  33. 1733
    Name: Kathy Diina on Sep 12, 2006
    State: NY
    Country: US
    Comments:
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  34. 1734
    Name: Mark Skrobola on Sep 12, 2006
    State: NJ
    Country: US
    Comments:
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  35. 1735
    Name: Anonymous on Sep 12, 2006
    State: CA
    Country: US
    Comments: The use of nude models is paramount to the study of anatomy.
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  36. 1736
    Name: Anonymous on Sep 12, 2006
    State: PA
    Country: US
    Comments: Where would the masters be without drawing the human figure This is an outrage to the arts! Reverse the suspension of Mr. Panse.
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  37. 1737
    Name: Susan Jones on Sep 12, 2006
    State: WA
    Country: US
    Comments:
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  38. 1738
    Name: Cheryl Fish on Sep 12, 2006
    State: OR
    Country: US
    Comments: Clearly,(to me) the impropriety commited here was the suspension of Mr. pete Panse.
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  39. 1739
    Name: Kara Faust on Sep 12, 2006
    State:
    Country:
    Comments: Art is something that should be appreciated and the human form is a piece of art even though the media today tears it apart. A teacher shouldn't be reprimanded for teaching their students to appreciate the human form; they should be honored for it.
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  40. 1740
    Name: Andrea La Vigne on Sep 12, 2006
    State: TX
    Country: US
    Comments:
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  41. 1741
    Name: Anonymous on Sep 12, 2006
    State: WA
    Country: US
    Comments: Does the board of Education think we still live in the dark ages They ought to thank their lucky stars they have an art teacher like Mr. Panse.
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  42. 1742
    Name: Mary Malm on Sep 12, 2006
    State: FL
    Country: US
    Comments: Understanding the anatomy of the human figure is essential for art students. The only way this can be done successfully is by drawing from the nude. Magnet high school art programs in Miami require nude figure drawing as part of the curriculum. No serious art program can do without it.
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  43. 1743
    Name: Colleen Williams on Sep 12, 2006
    State: OR
    Country: US
    Comments: This is a sorry state of affairs when the traditional underpinnings of an art education are under attack by the religious right. The only inappropriate action here was the suspension.
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  44. 1744
    Name: Anonymous on Sep 12, 2006
    State: OR
    Country: US
    Comments:
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  45. 1745
    Name: Kenneth Belanger on Sep 12, 2006
    State: ID
    Country: US
    Comments: I find our societies fear of our own species body ludicrous. We should probably promote advance in education not backwardness.
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  46. 1746
    Name: Martha Ferguson on Sep 12, 2006
    State: TX
    Country: US
    Comments:
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  47. 1747
    Name: Nancy Christy-Moore on Sep 12, 2006
    State: AZ
    Country: US
    Comments: When I was 14 my mother gave me the gift of a private drawing class taught by a local professional in our community. It did not damage me in any way and indeed gave me a head start for all my art classes early on in my career. It was embarassing at first, but I quickly got over it and produced some nice drawings.
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  48. 1748
    Name: Anonymous on Sep 12, 2006
    State:
    Country: US
    Comments: It is really sad when the world begins to shut out art for being controversial. Many famous paintings were controversial at one time, but they do not have to be if people would accept other's beliefs and think rationally about the subject. A closed mind will not learn and move forward. I wish Pete Panse the best of luck in regaining his standing that was unjustly taken away.
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  49. 1749
    Name: Sandra Tascarini on Sep 12, 2006
    State: NY
    Country: US
    Comments: God created the human body. Adam and Eve were naked and sin made them know their nakedness. The perverted see the human body as sin. We were created in God's image, therefore, when we draw the human form we are glorifying God.
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  50. 1750
    Name: Nancy D. Carville on Sep 12, 2006
    State: PA
    Country: US
    Comments: Parents and administrators who assume drawing nudes is about sex are wrong. Pretty soon kids see figures like anything else they draw in terms of line, shape, texture, value, color, proportion etc. If you think today's kids have not already learned about sex, put your heads back in the sand.
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