Florida Principal Out After Viewing Of Michelangelo's 'David' Upsets Parents (3 Viewers)

[rajncajn]

Ask me how many conversations about content and this very topic I've had in that time. You are here to defend this nonsense and nothing more. It's your MO for all of this conservative nonsense.

Conversations with who?

 

[Boy_of_wonder75]

Conversations with who?

Admin and once the Superintendent of Catholic Schools

Also, um...whom.

 

[rajncajn]

Again. I am speaking of the censorship of the curriculum. This is the root cause of the problem. This action, and others that are being written into law around this country, is specifically designed to feed children a certain point of view and keep them oblivious to others.

I thought the whole point of learning was growth! But hey, who says the child has the freedom to grow beyond their parents wishes.

How is there censorship if no children were denied participation?

 

[rajncajn]

Admin and once the Superintendent of Catholic Schools

And what was the purpose of those conversations?

 

[rajncajn]

I don't find it offensive, I find it stupid. It demonstrates a deep ignorance of art as well as history. Parents are not subject matter experts. A parent can feel however they want about anything, the school does not have to give that opinion any weight.

Then why notify parents at all?

 

[Boy_of_wonder75]

And what was the purpose of those conversations?

In the case of the superintendent, it was so she could laugh while she told me about a complaint she received about a production we were staging. The parent was concerned b/c they had looked up the show and saw clips from a different production in which "the excessive sweating of the actors was indicative of indecency." I sat in the principal's office as the three of us laughed. Then she asked when it opened.

 

[Boy_of_wonder75]

Then why notify parents at all?

They shouldn't.

 

[Dago]

In the case of the superintendent, it was so she could laugh while she told me about a complaint she received about a production we were staging. The parent was concerned b/c they had looked up the show and saw clips from a different production in which "the excessive sweating of the actors was indicative of indecency." I sat in the principal's office as the three of us laughed. Then she asked when it opened.

Wow...that makes you an expert!



That's so much more relevant than me going to multiple DoE seminars every year, writing multiple self-studies, assisting the Region VI DoE in 2 school investigations, dealing with annual DoE and accrediting audits, and assisting the state with enacting the vocational curriculums for Louisiana High Schools.

 

[SystemShock]

A parent called it 'pornographic'. What ought to have happened is that parent should have been laughed at and ignored.

Do you feel that's the reaction one should have when people express any belief that one thinks is laughable?

My favorite part of the article is when the head of the local school board said, "We don't use pronouns." These people reveal themselves to be among the most stupid on the planet.

On the contrary... avoiding the use of pronouns in this day and age of preferred pronouns and the raised hell that ensues when someone uses the wrong pronoun seems reasonable to me.

 

[SystemShock]

So, you think the principal should have been fired because the staff forgot to send out the info to the parents? No other reason, just that reason right there? And this is the third principal in 2 years? Yeh, there's no red flags there at all.

I think @Dago does have a point. Whatever we think, or however we feel about the situation, it all hinges on the conditions of employment set forth by the employer and the agreement to abide by those conditions by the employee. As long as those conditions are not against some regulation or unconstitutional, it is what it is. Of course, that he has a point doesn't make what happened to this principal righteous.

I know I'd have to be very desperate to seek employment in any Christian institution. I'd end up stoned, and not the good stoned.

 

[Boy_of_wonder75]

Do you feel that's the reaction one should have when people express any belief that one thinks is laughable?



On the contrary... avoiding the use of pronouns in this day and age of preferred pronouns and the raised hell that ensues when someone uses the wrong pronoun seems reasonable to me.

Eh...'we' is a pronoun.

 

[SystemShock]

Eh...'we' is a pronoun.

So is 'I", "you", "they", but we know which ones can be a problem, don't we?

 

[Boy_of_wonder75]

So is 'I", "you", "they", but we know which ones can be a problem, don't we?

That's not what the moron said though, is it?

 

[Buickman]

Just to throw this out there, but this is from the school's home page. Shouldn't this have been a flag to the parents?

Tallahassee Classical School is training the minds and improving the hearts of young people through a content-rich classical education in the liberal arts and sciences, with instruction in the principles of moral character and civic virtue.

 

[Consigliere]

You are displaying your ignorance. That wouldn't even be a matter of substance. The only thing that would matter is that the school didn't follow its own rules and regulations

I think you are missing the most important point.

The most important point is not whether the firing was because of rule-breaking or art-porn.

The most important point is that there should not be a rule requiring teachers to call parents about what art they can show.

The regime down there is imposing a significant chilling effect. Teachers won't bother to teach anything that one parent might complain about.