Teacher Allison Wint fired after using the word ‘vagina’ in art history class

Apr 29, 2016 - 03:06
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Teacher Allison Wint fired after using the word ‘vagina’ in art history class
Allison Wint, a former substitute teacher at Harper Creek Middle School, says she was fired after using the word "vagina" in a lecture about art history.(Photo: Allison Wint)

A TEACHER spoke a word apparently so outrageous, so nauseating, that she was fired from her job. That word? Vagina.

Last week, substitute teacher Allison Wint was leading an art history class at Harper Creek Middle School — a job she had been in since January — while discussing the paintings by George O’Keeffe, according to the Detroit Free Press.

Some of O’Keeffe’s work does actually look like abstract portrayals of the female anatomy, and Wint recalled saying to her class: “Imagine walking into a gallery when (O’Keeffe) was first showing her pieces, and thinking, ‘Am I actually seeing vaginas here, am I a pervert? I’m either a pervert or this woman was a pervert’.”