Pupil defaces artwork during school field trip
Published: 14 Oct 10 07:55 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/29606/20101014/
When a class from a Södertälje high school visited Stockholm's Moderna Museet art museum last week, a pupil drew a line on one of the artworks, reported the local Länstidningen Södertälje daily.
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"It is very regrettable. I don't want to speculate on what will happen before we make our assessment," Gabriel Gunnarsson at the museum press office told the newspaper.
The class, from Igelstaviken High School visited the museum on October 7th. The museum subsequently discovered that a line had been drawn on the painting.
The museum is unable to specify what the Malevich is worth, as it is part of the permanent collection and has thus not been valued for sale.
The school's principal has been in contact with the pupil's parents in connection with the incident, and is awaiting the result of Moderna's assessment of the damage, Länstidningen Södertälje reported.
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Can the parents be held accountable for their child's action while under the care and supervision of the school and museum?
Personally it sounds to me that the school and museum are at fault for not supplying adequate staff to look after the children.
Sweden needs to give parents a little more control over their kids, God help them if they ask me to pay for havoc wreaked by my child when the law also says i have almost no rights or options to put him straight.
Can the parents be held accountable for their child's action while under the care and supervision of the school and museum?
Personally it sounds to me that the school and museum are at fault for not supplying adequate staff to look after the children.
You know what? I am already tired of people like you.. There is always someone guilty except children. When 12 years kid kills someone, then he or she is too young to take responsibility, when 14 years boys rape some girl, they are too young to take responsibility..When 15 years old boys attack older guy and beat a s..it out of him, they are too young to take responsibility..
Come on and wake up.
When I was about 7, I was stealing strawberries from other people garden and even then I knew that it was wrong.. When I was throwing stones to the windows, I knew what I was doing..And when I was caught I had to take full responsibility.
Children must take full responsibility for their actions. I think Swedish parents already know too good what it means, when children know their right, but don't know and don't do their duties.
He is not a child. He is a young adult and should know better. Let him pay through his nose!
If the kid wants to be an artist let him do whatever with his own work, I am against teaching him/her what should be done and what not with his/her art work but he/she should have the basic sense to respect somebody else's property and work.
What about giving value for the interpretation of the original artist?
Well said sarah, I agree with you
Therefore the fault lies entirely with their parents for not raising their child correctly and so they should bear the full responsibility of the cost to fix the damage.
Being a parent comes with responsibilities, if you decide to ignore those you need to be held accountable.
Also, when does common sense come into play? If this kid had an item that someone else broke or vandalized in some way, they'd be pissed off and want compensation/revenge. The item wasn't that person's to destroy or vandalize. This kid didn't own the painting, thus it wasn't his to destroy and vandalize. Thus he should give compensation.
Hmmm. You wouldn't happen to be the little punk that did this, would you?
and if anyone ojects then they get tagged too
most probably one of the best comments I have ever read, direct, precise and frank.
This problem didn't start yesterday, people!
Now, there is obviously a big lack of education/authority - sense of duty coming from the family, because it all stems from there in the begining, but please the kid is RESPONSIBLE for his actions !!! i can't beleive what i am reading !
It's not a matter of coming from Södertälje and being an immigrants kid, it's the matter of nobody ever telling the kid how to behave in society...Teachers cannot take on parent's job of educating a kid. Parents should be interviewed in this matter and damage should be paid by them, they might in turn be tougher on their kids education...