Fired Florida principal visited David statue

A Florida school principal was forced to resign after parents complained she showed children a picture of Michelangelo’s David statue.

Now she herself has visited the work in place in Florence, after being invited by the director of the museum where the statue is exhibited.

During a school class in Tallahassee, Florida, principal Hope Carrasquilla showed students pictures of some of the Renaissance’s most famous works of art — including Michelangelo’s David statue, which depicts a naked man.

However, the initiative was not unanimously appreciated by the children’s parents, where a number instead claimed that the lesson contained pornography. After a board meeting, Carrasquilla was then fired – who has now been able to view Michelangelo’s masterpiece in place in the Italian city of Florence with his own eyes, writes the BBC.

“The statue is wonderful”

The former headmaster had been invited to the Galleria dell”Accademia, where the statue is located, by the museum director – and after seeing David in real life, Hope Carrasquilla is impressed.

– Michelangelo would not have done him justice if he had chosen to depict him in any other way. I think the statue is wonderful, she tells the BBC.

School education is a hot question

School education in Florida has recently become an increasingly hot issue, primarily through the policies pursued by the state’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis. Among other things, schools in the state are no longer allowed to teach students about sexual orientation or gender identity, according to the so-called “Don’t say gay” law.

The news of the American vice-chancellor’s resignation has led to an increasingly fierce stream of tourists to the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence – where many of the visitors, along with the statue, take selfies.