Florida Principal Out After Viewing Of Michelangelo's 'David' Upsets Parents (1 Viewer)

[rajncajn]

That's a great point

It would all hinge on what was already in her file and how I felt about her job performance overall. Also, maybe I missed it if there was a statement about her previous experience before this job?

For example, my last education director was promoted from within. Obviously she made several minor errors which was completely understandable since she had never had the position before. If this was a similar situation, and I saw the desire to do the job and learn from mistakes (not repeating the same errors constantly), I would back her without question...it would be just a matter of documenting the counseling and progress for my annual audits. Finding good people was ridiculously difficult so I would have held onto her in that or a similar scenario

If this was someone who had previous experience before working for me and kept screwing up and they made an error that could lead to a lawsuit or issues with the state, accrediting board, or US DoE? I would have fired her

There are so many variables here that making an educated judgement is impossible without more info

Like I said from the get go....there is very likely far more than we know. If I were in her shoes and I had a clean record, I would have forced them to fire me and gone after them for wrongful termination. Even in an at will state, if a business has set policies and procedures regarding how they discipline and terminate employees (which this school would) they would be actionable for violating those policies to terminate someone

I'm also reading between the lines that the board may also be facing pressure from Hillsdale College, who's already pulled funding from them once before. Could also explain why they'd replaced principals before.

 

[nolaspe]

 

[Optimus Prime]

HILLSDALE, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan college has ended its partnership with a Florida charter school whose principal was forced to resign after a parent complained sixth graders were exposed to pornography during a lesson on Renaissance art that included Michelangelo’s “David” sculpture.

A Hillsdale College spokesperson said Tallahassee Classical School no longer is affiliated with the small, Christian classical liberal arts college in southern Michigan, MLive.com reported Thursday.

“This drama around teaching Michelangelo’s ‘David’ sculpture, one of the most important works of art in existence, has become a distraction from, and a parody of, the actual aims of classical education,” spokesperson Emily Stack Davis wrote in a statement. “Of course, Hillsdale’s K-12 art curriculum includes Michelangelo’s ‘David’ and other works of art that depict the human form.”

Tallahassee Classical School was licensed to use Hillsdale's classical education curriculum, but its license was "revoked and will expire at the end of the school year,” Davis said............

College ends partnership with school over 'David' issue

 

[kjun3724]

Look I consider myself conservative/just right of center, but more and more librarian. But really the remove the principle for this?? This is a tad much. Hell I am more than positive school kids in Italy take field trips to see this. Come on man do better. This is a simple case of give an inch and they take a mile.

 

[SystemShock]

Fixed it...

ei/eis

 

[SoggyBottomBoy]

Having a degree in applied arts, I've taken several art history courses. Sat and memorized slides of great works from different eras. In the last decade or so, I've been to exhibits at museums in NYC, Houston and Europe (The Louvre, Uffizi, Vatican City) and experienced many of works of art I'd only known from books. Michelangelo's David is far and away the most beautiful, incredible piece of art I've ever seen. Seventeen feet tall sculpted in marble.

Sculpting in stone is a subtractive rather than additive medium (painting, clay sculpture, etc.) Think of it as whittling a 17 foot statue out of a single piece of wood - except this is marble. Here's an incomplete work by Michelangelo:



Also at this Gallery of the Academy of Florence they have a lot of exhibits that explained a lot of the process. Basically small scale models with pins as relief points that helped estimate the depth to reach in various areas of the sculpture. 3D plot points like digital animators use today.

Interesting sidebar. When were leaving this Gallery of the Academy of Florence crossed a couple in that alley. Kareem Abdul Jabbar and his lady. My wife and daughter didn't even notice (no one else in Florence for that matter) and didn't know why I turned to get a quick pick as they walked away. If the timing would have had us in the museum at the same time, it would have been great to get a pic of him viewing David who was more than twice his height.

 

[nolaspe]

 

[DaveXA]

 

[Optimus Prime]

A Florida principal who resigned after parents at her school decried Michelangelo’s David statue as pornography has traveled to Florence, Italy, following invitations from the museum director and mayor of Florence.

Hope Carrasquilla, the former principal of Florida’s Tallahassee Classical school, touched down in Florence on Friday and visited the Galleria dell’Accademia with her family where the David statue resides.

Carrasquilla’s visit follows her resignation in March after parents at the Christian charter school complained about their children being shown the 16th-century Renaissance statue of the biblical figure in class…….

Florida principal who lost job over ‘pornographic’ David statue visits Italy

Hope Carrasquilla, forced to resign after parents condemned Michelangelo’s statue as pornography, invited to Florence

www.theguardian.com

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

Having a degree in applied arts, I've taken several art history courses. Sat and memorized slides of great works from different eras. In the last decade or so, I've been to exhibits at museums in NYC, Houston and Europe (The Louvre, Uffizi, Vatican City) and experienced many of works of art I'd only known from books. Michelangelo's David is far and away the most beautiful, incredible piece of art I've ever seen. Seventeen feet tall sculpted in marble.

Sculpting in stone is a subtractive rather than additive medium (painting, clay sculpture, etc.) Think of it as whittling a 17 foot statue out of a single piece of wood - except this is marble. Here's an incomplete work by Michelangelo:



Also at this Gallery of the Academy of Florence they have a lot of exhibits that explained a lot of the process. Basically small scale models with pins as relief points that helped estimate the depth to reach in various areas of the sculpture. 3D plot points like digital animators use today.

Interesting sidebar. When were leaving this Gallery of the Academy of Florence crossed a couple in that alley. Kareem Abdul Jabbar and his lady. My wife and daughter didn't even notice (no one else in Florence for that matter) and didn't know why I turned to get a quick pick as they walked away. If the timing would have had us in the museum at the same time, it would have been great to get a pic of him viewing David who was more than twice his height.

That gallery is mesmerizing- David had all sorts of scaffolding around it when I was there and it was still incredible
And thank you for mentioning the slaves - just amazing to be in the room with them