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Oh wow. >> Just to be clear, last year you sent a notice to parents warning them that students were going to see Michelangelo’s David? >> Yes. This year, we
by taeric 4y ago
Oh wow.
>> Just to be clear, last year you sent a notice to parents warning them that students were going to see Michelangelo’s David?
>> Yes. This year, we made an egregious mistake. We didn’t send that notice. Look, we’re not a public school. We’re a public charter.
Why in the F do schools feel they need to send a notice that kids might see the statue of David? That the board honestly feels that this was a mistake this year is just mind blowing to me.
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- dekhn 4y agoBecause the statue contains nudity (originally, classic-style statues were displayed clothed but had fully articulated genitals) and in a state like Florida, there are parents who would like to keep their kids from seeing that, and by being informed, can keep their kids home for the day. It's a different mental model about education than I'm used to (where subversive teachers showed us all sorts of stuff, but never told us not to tell our parents, nor did they get fired, or said anything about whether this sort of art was 'pornographic'. Our teacher had us watch Romeo & Juliet and explain that showing 16-year-olds naked made sense in context because real people have sex at that age!) We can sit here and be unhappy about this but the reality is that Florida is choosing to go this way and many parents support it, and support it by voting in people who enforce these policies.
- taeric 4y agoOh, apologies. I "knew" the dumb reason. :D I'm just baffled that it is a reason.