Tell DeSantis if kindergarten people are shown pictures of penises or Michelangelo's David, in full, most, if not every one of the young people, would grow up with fewer sexual hangups.
Florida principal resigns after parents decry Michelangelo’s David as pornography
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Tallahassee Classical school’s governing board heard complaints after sixth-graders were shown classical sculpture
Maya Yang Sun 26 Mar 2023 05.29 AEDT Last modified on Mon 27 Mar 2023 08.14 AEDT
The original statue of Michelangelo's David. Photograph: Paolo Lo Debole/Getty Images
In Florida, parents are always right – even when they think a Michelangelo is porn [Excerpt[t This may seem completely bonkers to many of us but, Carrasquilla, the former principal, told the Huffington Post that she wasn’t entirely surprised by the reaction. Every “once in a while you get a parent who gets upset about Renaissance art”. Indeed, normally, a letter is sent out to parents of students warning them that their kiddos are going to see a picture of one of the world’s most famous sculptures. (I believe this is known as a “trigger warning”, something I thought the right were vehemently against.) This year, however, due to a “series of miscommunications”, the letter wasn’t sent out, exacerbating parental anger. P - According to Slate .. https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/03/florida-principal-fired-michelangelo-david-statue.html , who interviewed Barney Bishop III, the school board chair responsible for forcing Carrasquilla out of her job, three parents were behind the bulk of the David-related outrage.] Arwa Mahdawi Read more > https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/25/florida-school-principal-fired-michelangelo-porn-desantis-law
Hope Carrasquilla resigned on Monday as principal of the Tallahassee Classical school after the campus’s governing board told her to either step down or be fired over parental complaints that came in after sixth-grade students were shown the 16th-century sculpture, one of the Renaissance’s most famous pieces of art.
While not directly related to the legislation, Carrasquilla made her decision to resign as far-right Florida governor Ron DeSantis pushes to expand a law prohibiting public schools from teaching sex education and gender identity. That law is part of a broader conservative movement advocating for so-called parents’ rights .. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/24/republicans-parents-rights-education-culture-war , which purport to give parents more of a say in their children’s education but – according to critics – is really a guise to advance a rightwing ideological agenda in schools.
One parent “felt her child should not be viewing those pieces” and described being “point-blank upset”, Carrasquilla told the outlet.
Tallahassee Classical school is affiliated with Hillsdale College, a Michigan-based private conservative Christian institution. According to .. https://tlhclassical.org/academics/barney-charter-school-initiative/ .. its website, the school aims to “train the minds and improve the hearts of young people through a content-rich classical education in the liberal arts and sciences, with instruction in the principles of moral character and civic virtue”.
“We have a practice,” Bishop said. “Last year, the school sent out an advance notice about it. Parents should know: in class, students are going to see or hear or talk about this. This year, we didn’t send out that notice.”
He added: “This year, we made an egregious mistake. We didn’t send that notice. Look, we’re not a public school. We’re a public charter. Parents, after they saw all the crap that’s being taught in public schools during [the Covid-19 pandemic] decided on their own that they didn’t want their children to be taught that.
“The rights of parents, that trumps the rights of kids.”
People have a right to go to a christian school, they don't have a right to force religion into a public school. Plenty of catholic schools sucking peoples money down.