Principal Of Christian School Resigns After Parents Decry Michelangelo’s David As Pornography

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Principal Of Christian School Resigns After Parents Decry Michelangelo’s David As Pornography

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"A Florida principal has resigned after students at a Christian charter school in Tallahassee were shown the statue of the biblical figure David by Michelangelo, prompting at least one parent to complain that the children had been exposed to pornography.

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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, 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.

The Tallahassee Democrat reported that one of the school’s parents called the image of Michelangelo’s David “pornographic”. Carrasquilla told HuffPost that the school’s usual protocol is to notify parents by letter when students are to be shown “potentially controversial” classical artwork. However, as a result of a “series of miscommunications”, the letter was not sent out to the sixth-graders’ parents before they were shown the David sculpture.

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 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”.
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So, is this really helping our children?

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This is an example of the snowflake Right Wing that couldn't get everything they wanted, so they'll complain about anything they can find as a "own the libs" moment. I have lost all expectation that the Right Wing has any kind of plan, or even a glimmer of a plan of a plan... They are just upset women aren't chattel, Christianity isn't mandatory, and slavery isn't legal. Since that isn't going to happen, they will act out like petulant children their whole lives. They will try to destroy as many lives as they can.
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It'd be a shame if some young child saw a statue's pp.

They might stop and stare when when what they need to is hide from the gunman.
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JoeyKnothead wrote: Wed Mar 29, 2023 5:51 pm It'd be a shame if some young child saw a statue's pp.

They might stop and stare when when what they need to is hide from the gunman.
Spot on. :approve:


One has to wonder how a parent who is disgusted by the sight of a pp ever had the courage to use one. But perhaps they never did. .
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And let's not forget the Right Wing is banning books, and now trying to ban art, all while claiming the Left is trying to censor them.
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Liberals and conservatives both do this and it appalls me. The school can't please everyone. And they have to teach something to avoid admitting they're a ludicrously expensive free daycare for breeders with the cost borne by others, some of whom want kids but can't afford them.

If you don't like how the school teaches, you're welcome to homeschool your child instead of whining like a stuck pig.

Now I have heard they're putting some red tape up around that. And to the extent that they have, they have an obligation to please everyone they're forcing to use their moneypits.

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Purple Knight wrote: Fri Mar 31, 2023 5:03 pm Liberals and conservatives both do this and it appalls me. The school can't please everyone. And they have to teach something to avoid admitting they're a ludicrously expensive free daycare for breeders with the cost borne by others, some of whom want kids but can't afford them.

If you don't like how the school teaches, you're welcome to homeschool your child instead of whining like a stuck pig.

Now I have heard they're putting some red tape up around that. And to the extent that they have, they have an obligation to please everyone they're forcing to use their moneypits.
While I sure understand the sentiment of not wanting to be responsible for helping raise someone else's child in a "money put", I can't escape the irony of using the internet to present that complaint.
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JoeyKnothead wrote: Fri Mar 31, 2023 5:45 pm
Purple Knight wrote: Fri Mar 31, 2023 5:03 pm Liberals and conservatives both do this and it appalls me. The school can't please everyone. And they have to teach something to avoid admitting they're a ludicrously expensive free daycare for breeders with the cost borne by others, some of whom want kids but can't afford them.

If you don't like how the school teaches, you're welcome to homeschool your child instead of whining like a stuck pig.

Now I have heard they're putting some red tape up around that. And to the extent that they have, they have an obligation to please everyone they're forcing to use their moneypits.
While I sure understand the sentiment of not wanting to be responsible for helping raise someone else's child in a "money put", I can't escape the irony of using the internet to present that complaint.
The complaint isn't about being forced to fund the breeding and child care of others. The complaint is about the recipients of that complaining about their free horses.

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Purple Knight wrote: Fri Mar 31, 2023 9:04 pm
JoeyKnothead wrote: Fri Mar 31, 2023 5:45 pm
Purple Knight wrote: Fri Mar 31, 2023 5:03 pm Liberals and conservatives both do this and it appalls me. The school can't please everyone. And they have to teach something to avoid admitting they're a ludicrously expensive free daycare for breeders with the cost borne by others, some of whom want kids but can't afford them.

If you don't like how the school teaches, you're welcome to homeschool your child instead of whining like a stuck pig.

Now I have heard they're putting some red tape up around that. And to the extent that they have, they have an obligation to please everyone they're forcing to use their moneypits.
While I sure understand the sentiment of not wanting to be responsible for helping raise someone else's child in a "money put", I can't escape the irony of using the internet to present that complaint.
The complaint isn't about being forced to fund the breeding and child care of others. The complaint is about the recipients of that complaining about their free horses.
My bad. I totally misunderstood.

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