UPDATE: World’s Most Famous Sculpture “Too Pornographic” To Show Florida’s 12-year-olds
Update: The Florida school principal fired for showing her students Michelangelo’s statue, David has been invited by the mayor of Florence to visit Italy. On Twitter, politician Dario Nardella said he would “personally invite” Hope Carrasquilla to Florence, where the statue is located, to “give her recognition on behalf of the city,” adding that “art is civilization and whoever teaches it deserves respect.” Meanwhile, some have been posting photos of nuns giggling as they pose for selfies with the nude statue.
A Florida school principal has been forced to resign after showing students aged 11 and 12 an image of Michelangelo’s sculpture of David and his Creation Of Adam painting in a lesson about Renaissance art.
Both famous artworks feature male nudity. Michelangelo’s marble sculpture of the biblical figure David was crafted between 1501 and 1504 and is often hailed as the world’s most famous art sculpture.
School principal Hope Carrasquilla was asked to resign after three parents complained that their children felt uncomfortable in the class. One of those parents labelled the lesson “pornographic”.
Carrasquilla told HuffPost one parent was “point-blank upset” and “felt her child should not be viewing those pieces”.
Barney Bishop, the chair of Tallahassee Classical – a charter school that is part of a private conservative college – claimed the art lesson was one of several issues with Carrasquilla but did not elaborate.
“Parental rights trump everything else,” Bishop said. “They didn’t like the woke indoctrination that was going on,” he said.
He claimed Carrasquilla was attempting to “gin up a lot of publicity” by speaking to media outlets.
Carrasquilla, who had been at the school for less than a year, said, “It saddens me that my time here had to end this way.”
Florida’s schools have rarely been out of the news over the last 12 months.
A challenge to the state’s infamous “Don’t Say Gay” 2022 law restricting classroom instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation has this week gone to a federal appeals court as state lawmakers and education officials look to expand the restrictions.
