Florida principal who lost job over ‘pornographic’ David statue visits Italy — Hope Carrasquilla, forced to resign after parents condemned Michelangelo’s statue as pornography, was invited to Florence
Florida principal who lost job over ‘pornographic’ David statue visits Italy — Hope Carrasquilla, forced to resign after parents condemned Michelangelo’s statue as pornography, was invited to Florence
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>Hope Carrasquilla, the former principal of Florida’s Tallahassee Classical school, touched down in Florence on Friday and visited the Accademia Gallery with her family where David’s statue resides.
>Carrasquilla’s visit follows her resignation in March after parents at the Christian charter school complained over their children being shown the 16th century Renaissance statue of the biblical figure in class.
>One of the school’s parents condemned the statue of David as “pornographic”. A parent also said that she “felt her child should not be viewing those pieces,” and said that she was “point-blank upset”, Carrasquilla told the Tallahassee Democrat at the time of the incident.
>Her resignation came after the campus’s governing board informed her to either step down or be fired.
>After media reports emerged of Carrasquilla’s resignation, the mayor of Florence pushed back against the outcry towards Carrasquilla.
>Cecilie Hollberg, the director of Accademia Gallery, echoed similar sentiments, telling the Associated Press: “To think that David could be pornographic means truly not understanding the contents of the Bible, not understanding western culture and not understanding Renaissance art.”
^1 Maya Young (30 Apr. 2023), “Florida principal who lost job over ‘pornographic’ David statue visits Italy”, The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/30/florida-principal-david-statue-visits-florence
This reads like the onion lol
Every single religious person I have ever met is fucking mental and uses religion as a cover for doing shady shit. As soon as I hear the fucking ‘Jesus’ line, i immediately distrust them knowing there’s a really good chance they’ve done or are doing some seriously bad things.
Hope she enjoyed her visit, Florence is a fantastic city to visit and the statue of David is breathtaking, nothing like you’d think it would be.
Parents are the worst.
“Classical school”. Right.
Such a great troll job by France. God I love it!
What do you expect from a backwoods school that’s full of the children of far-right conspiracy theory loving crazies.
Simpsons did it
The irony is that this school calls itself the “Tallahassee **Classical** school”
**Classical.**