Forced to resign for having shown students Michelangelo's David during a lesson on the Renaissance.
It happens in a public middle school in Florida: the principal, Hope Carrasquilla, ended up in the sights of her parents, who defined the sculpture shown to the kids as "pornographic".
The US media evoke a "DeSantis effect", the Republican governor who has launched a crusade to give more powers to parents in the management of school education and to ban lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity.
To give the aut aut to Carrasquilla (resignation or dismissal) was the president of the board of the Tallahassee Classical School, Barney Bishop, a fervent supporter of the educational policies of DeSantis. “Parental rights are paramount, and that means protecting the interests of all parents, whether they are one, 10, 20 or 50,” Bishop explained, refusing to formalize the reason for his resignation. But the principal said she was convinced that everything is linked to her lesson on Michelangelo.
Which sounds decidedly paradoxical in a school that calls itself "Classical school" and which presents itself as an institute that «trains the minds and improves the hearts of the young through a classical education rich in content in the liberal arts and sciences».
In addition to David, considered one of Michelangelo's masterpieces and one of the greatest sculptures of the Renaissance, the Birth of Venus by Botticelli or the Creation of Adam by Michelangelo himself would also have caused discontent in parents.
(Unioneonline/L)
