Post by: 280plus on February 28, 2006, 10:24:27 AM
It has to remove a stain left by a wad of gum stuck on the painting by a 12-year-old visitor.
It happened Friday. Museum officials said the boy was with a group from Holly Academy in Oakland County, Mich., when he took the gum out of his mouth and stuck it on Helen Frankenthaler's 1963 abstract painting "The Bay."
The gum didn't stick to the fiber of the canvas, but left a stain the size of a quarter. Museum experts are researching the chemicals in the gum to decide how to clean the painting.
Holly Academy director Julie Kildee said the boy had been suspended from the charter school and said his parents also have disciplined him.
"Even though we give very strict guidelines on proper behavior and we hold students to high standards, he is only 12 and I don't think he understood the ramifications of what he did before it happened, but he certainly understands the severity of it now," said Kildee.
Post by: charby on February 28, 2006, 10:25:48 AM
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"Even though we give very strict guidelines on proper behavior and we hold students to high standards, he is only 12 and I don't think he understood the ramifications of what he did before it happened, but he certainly understands the severity of it now," said Kildee.
Bullshit, the kid is old enough to know that he shouldn't have done that.
"Even though we give very strict guidelines on proper behavior and we hold students to high standards, he is only 12 and I don't think he understood the ramifications of what he did before it happened, but he certainly understands the severity of it now," said Kildee.
Post by: K Frame on February 28, 2006, 10:43:52 AM
Post by: garrettwc on February 28, 2006, 11:47:03 AM
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Bullshit, the kid is old enough to know that he shouldn't have done that.
Big +1. My grandsons are half that age and they know what the consequences are if gum is found anywhere other than a trash can.
Post by: 280plus on February 28, 2006, 02:37:20 PM
