The principal of a charter school in Florida was ousted from her position because parents complain that Michelangelo’s masterpiece ‘David’ is “pornographic”.
According to the Tallahassee Democrat, the statue was shown during a sixth grade Renaissance art history lesson at Tallahassee Classical School.
Hope Carrasquilla, the former principal of the school explained that a small portion of their curriculum requires them to teach Renaissance art lessons to students in the sixth-grade.
Two months ago, the school enacted a policy that requires teachers to give parents two weeks advance notice before teaching any “potentially controversial” information.
Carrasquilla told Huffpost that due to “a series of miscommunications,” the letter did not go out to the parents of sixth-graders and three filed complaints.
Two parents say they wished they were notified before the lesson and the other called the masterpiece “pornographic.”
School board president Barney Bishop, a lobbyist and a supporter of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ education agenda, gave Carrasquilla an ultimatum to either quit or be fired.
Bishop told the Tallahassee Democrat that “parental rights are supreme.”
“And that means protecting the interests of all parents, whether it’s one, 10, 20 or 50,” he added.
Carrasquilla was the school’s third principal since it opened in the fall of 2020, according to the Tallahassee Democrat.
