Utah Teacher Fired after Showing Her Elementary School Students Postcards with Nudity on Them THE SCHOOL PURCHASED 3 Years Prior

A former Cache Valley elementary art teacher said he was wrongly fired after students became uncomfortable looking at post cards that he said were bought by the school district.



Some of the paintings featured European nude art.



At Jack’s Wood Fired Oven in Logan, murals of various painted animals and vegetables fill the walls. In one little area, the artist’s signature sits over a simple black background: Mateo Rueda.



“Very fun to create,” Rueda said, of the mural.



Art is his passion, and for the last year and a half, he’s expressed it through teaching at Lincoln Elementary in Hyrum.



“I love teaching,” Rueda said.



On December 4, he said he had the students do a color study exercise.



“We used some materials from the school that were there in the library,” Rueda explained.



Those materials, he and the Cache County Sheriff’s Office said, were purchased by the school about three years ago, and included eight boxes filled with 100 post cards each.