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Posted on March 25, 2024 5:01 pm

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Ten Montreal-area parents are suing a high school teacher and school board after their children’s classroom art assignments were posted for sale online. The lawsuit in Quebec Superior Court seeks $155,000 per family, along with punitive damages and an apology from Westwood Junior High School art teacher Mario Perron and school board Lester B. Pearson. A file dated March 15 says Perron assigned his students at the St-Lazare, Que., school to produce a “creepy portrait” of themselves or a classmate inspired by the style of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. The lawsuit alleges that the students discovered in February that the professor was selling their artwork online without their permission, such as prints or on T-shirts, coffee mugs, bags and ornaments, for prices ranging from US $9.50 to US$113. “Defendant Perron knowingly appropriated and used the work of his 96 younger students to sell and personally profit from them,” the court document states. “Furthermore, the totality of the works of art used by the defendant Perron for commercial purposes indicate the name of the student as author, which allowed them to be identified on a public stage, especially since they are portraits” their own works.” As of Monday, Perron’s pages were taken down from the sites where he claimed to be selling the art. But screenshots provided by one of the parents, and included as evidence in the lawsuit, show dozens of colorful portraits listed on the website fineartamerica.com, each marked as a “creepy portrait ” and then first name. “Here we are in a digital age, where families and parents are there to scrutinize everything our children look at, but who would have thought that the parents should have scrutinized the teacher?” said Joel DeBellefeuille, whose son’s art is among the pieces allegedly posted online. The Lester B. Pearson school board has declined to comment on the legal action but said in February it was looking into’ r claims and takes them seriously.

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Quebec parents file $1.6M suit after teacher allegedly put student art up for sale online – Montreal Achi-News

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