Offensive art - again

Mar 25 2023 The Guardian

Florida principal resigns after parents decry Michelangelo’s David as pornography

The principal of the Tallahassee Classical school resigned, because a parent complained to the board that the children had been exposed to pornography.

This is a classical school, it says so in the name, so you would think that classical art would be part of the curriculum. But showing the students a picture of Michelangelo’s 16th-century sculpture of David, is not classical art, it is pornography.

Good thing that the principal resigned; “the lesson plan also included pictures of Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam and Botticelli’s Birth of Venus.” That would have included both male and female nudity, and the Florida governor wants to ban (among other things) all discussions of sexuality in public schools.

Then again this is a charter school, so they could do something differently, but this is a Christian charter school, so pornography, classical or not, is out of the question.

Maybe schools should not teach art at all, there is definitely something offensive in it; a few months back it was Muslims offended by Islamic art, and now it is Christians offended by art made by Catholics!

And it does not even help that sometimes these Catholics worked for the Pope.