The former rector had not warned the students’ parents that their children would see the statue, a Renaissance masterpiece.
By Le Figaro
Published 3/25/2023 at 5:24 PM, updated 3/25/2023 at 5:41 PM
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Reproduction of Michelangelo’s David in Florence, Italy. Fiora Garenzi
Hope Carrasquilla, a middle school principal in Leon County, Fla., was forced to resign after parents complained that their sixth-grade children were studying pictures of Michelangelo’s statue of David in class. A parent thought the art class about the Renaissance masterpiece was pornographic, The Washington Post reports.
The principal tendered her resignation on Monday, March 20, after receiving an ultimatum from the school board. “It is with a sad heart that my tenure as principal of Tallahassee Classical School has come to an end,” she wrote Thursday in a letter to the school board obtained by the Washington Post.
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School board president and lobbyist Barney Bishop III confirmed to the US daily that he had given Hope Carrasquilla an ultimatum after receiving complaints from three parents who called the David classes “controversial” and inappropriate for their children’s ages held. He criticizes the former principal for not warning students’ parents that their children would see the Renaissance statue. “She wasn’t pushed aside because of the artistic nudes. We show it to our students every year,” he said, however, adding that Hope Carrasquilla “resigned voluntarily.”