Following a former principal’s forced resignation after some parents thought it was inappropriate for their 6th graders to see Michelangelo’s statue of David during art class, parents at the Tallahassee Classical School are speaking out.

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  1. I’m 66, raised Jehovah’s Witness – an ultra conservative religion – and went to a conservative Christian school in Christiansburg, VA. Our parents had Time Life books and huge table art books – common for that era that had photos of classical art, including statues of Venus and David. Conservatives then taught that the statues were created in a religious environment and that nudity in European art was not dirty or obscene as it celebrated God’s creation. We saw it in High school art class. We giggled but it was taught within the Christian art perspective while at the same time promoting God’s creation and that marriage was the highest expression of love between men and women. Taken as reported, these parents are creating more curiosity about why this is forbidden. This will backfire once they go to college. The kids will go into a much wider world, where mom is no longer flying the helicopter.

  2. Classical Education in the Title of the school and they can't show art from the Renaissance Era and the interpretation of what the biblical characters looked like. 😂 I am so thankful my parents provided me with a quality education to make me competitive in the world and not a moron. And the anchors didn't address the original issue at all.

  3. Greetings from Europe, where people are very concerned about the ongoing talibanization of US-American culture. Michelangelo's "David" pornographic – can you imagine the abyss of bigotry yawning here?

  4. I guess don’t take ur kids to the Sistine chapel cause it ceiling is full of pornography. The audacity of the enormous ignorance of some people is bringing destruction to their own children. It is ART and a master piece. I went to catholic school full of nuns only for girls and they would show us this as art, never was it seeing as anything else than master pieces of art! This is to get mad. This is an art connected to the Bible and was for a cathedral what the heck !!! Ignorant people! I guess the Pope who ordered Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling was a pornographic director ughhh so many people of this country have no sense of direction or education and they are messing up their kids.

  5. Did anyone understand this spaghetti talk? Interesting to note that no one mentions the original issue, which is that the David Statue is not wearing a kilt. But that would be a provocation, as Scots wear nothing under their kilts… America, the land where a Michelangelo statue is considered shocking (by some), but owning an AK17 gun is normal (for too many) .

  6. So now that they realized how dumb was to complain, parents say that the problem is a general trend of the school. Come on! Do you think we are stupid? You all were acting like judges from an inquisition trial of the far ages and now you are trying to cover how old fashioned and ignorant you were. I don't take it. Here in Italy we are not stupid and woke

  7. and I'm sure these concerned parents have no problem with their kids playing violent video games or playing with guns!!! only in the conservative U.S ! wonder what De-Sanitised thinks,,I'm guessing he thought the statue was of David Hasselhoff…

  8. Florida, are you going to BAN everything? Your State is a laughingstock around the world about this. So it appears the children were shown a naked Michelangelo statue. 97% of the children’s parents felt it was fine. But some far right nuts or about 3% complained. The principal was fired over this. How crazy can Florida get? I saw the statue when I was 6 years old. It didn’t scar me for life. If this is DeSantis vision of America, you can have him.

  9. This channel seems to give a lot of coverage to this school in spite of the fact that a few of its parents are horrified by the exposure of their children's eyes to classical art.
    I wonder if one of the parents has friends at this tv station…

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