Hope Carrasquilla, director of the Tallahassee Classical School (Florida, USA), claims that she lost her job after teaching her students about Renaissance art.
The American took over as director just under a year ago, but announced her resignation on Monday (22) during an emergency board meeting, says the Tallahassee Democrat newspaper.
Carrasquilla revealed that school board president Barney Bishop told her she would need to resign or be fired, but did not explain why.
However, she believes the problem lies with the statue. Michelangelo’s David , a milestone in Renaissance art. Considered “pornographic” by the father of one of the students in the class, the work has detailed representations of the human body. This, by the way, is one of the reasons why the sculpture is considered a reference.
To the newspaper, she explains that the law obliges schools to teach the subject as a small part of the annual curriculum for sixth grade students (generally, children between 11 and 12 years old).
Three parents complained that their children felt “uncomfortable,” the Tallahassee Democrat reported. Two of them claimed that they would have liked to have been warned about the subject earlier, while the third defended that the class was “pornographic”.
Contacted by the newspaper, Bishop declined to speak about the reasons that led to Carrasquilla’s resignation, but said that “the rights of parents are paramount and that means protecting the interest of all of them – whether 1, 10, 20 or 50”.
The “invitation to withdraw” made to the director took place in the same week as the governor of Florida Ron DeSantis announced that it intends to ban the teaching of sex education and gender identity in all schools across the state. The act is like an extension of the law”Don’t Say Gay “, which prohibits topics related to the LGBTQIA+ community from being taught and authorizes parents to sue institutions that fail to comply with the law.
Bishop publicly embraces the Florida government’s educational agenda, and told the paper that the Tallahassee Classical School is on the “leading edge” of adopting the state’s rules. “We agree with everything the governor is doing in the educational area. We support him because he is right,” he pointed out. “All indoctrination about pronouns and drag queens It’s not appropriate at school.”
Other parents have been bothered by the lack of communications about the high turnover rate of teachers and staff. According to Carrie Boyd, mother of a child in the third grade at the institution, the parents were not warned about the possible resignation of the principal. “It’s starting to look like school is becoming part of an agenda,” she told the paper.
Michelangelo’s David Tells Biblical Story
Michelangelo’s David is a solid marble sculpture over 4 meters high and 5 more including the base. Commissioned to the artist in 1501, it is a landmark of the Renaissance.
The statue refers to the biblical story between David and the giant Goliath. Until then, the battle was represented in different ways, but Michelangelo chose to sculpt David without Goliath in a moment that precedes the combat.
In addition to the literal grandeur, the work stands out for the artist’s choice to sculpt a body with muscles, something unusual at the time, and which shows Davi’s anatomy of tension, challenge, fragility and action.
For many specialists, the sculpture is considered a “suspension action”, showing movement through the dilated veins, the furrowed forehead, the look and the apprehension in the body.
Currently, Michelangelo’s David is inside the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence, Italy.
Source: CNN Brasil
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