The principal of a Florida charter school resigned after parents complained that a picture of the statue of David by Michelangelo was shown to a 6th grade class.
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#Florida #Statue #Michelangelo
When your entire platform is basically “Everything I don’t like is Woke”, you’re going to flame out pretty quick, even among the knuckle draggers.😂🤣
🤣 Republicans 💩
no, why
This seems like an incredible curriculum !
what lucky children
DeSantis is against freedom of speech.
don’t want kids to see what a man looks like?
What’s a man?
@John Dinglebery a man is your momma in drag
The people complaining about this stuff saw the same stuff when they were in school. So what makes it different now? It’s art, grow up.
This is nuts lol. WTF is wrong with people??
Wait a sec…
Yup. He had the balls to say it.
😂😂😂 oh please. Common FLORIDA!!! Wake TF up!
They hate being “woke” up.
I bet these redneck ignorant parents had no idea what the statue of David was. I can see how they thought it was a pornography.
So nice that a term was invented just so you can proclaim how much of a racist you are, how much of a sexist you are, how much of a trans or homophobe you are, without actually having to say anything against specific all you have to do is say “woke” and that instantly shifts blame to someone else and you’re clear and free.
sfs. Truth!!!
The term been around way before they heard of it. Just like any other term/slang that gets popular. They use it ignorantly and try to change its true meaning. Don’t let them fool you, woke still means what it has meant for the past 4 decades and on
NOBODY USES OR LIKES THE WORD “WOKE” AS MUCH AS RIGHTWING POLITICIANS, and most don’t even know WTH it means! 🤦🏻♂️😂
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Yeah if you are triggered by literal art.. keep your kids out the art museum and in your right wing safe spaces snowflakes.. its art.. its a museum.. don’t sign the permission slip if museums and history and art trigger you.
Simpson’s did it.
Simpsons did it.
Hopefully she will find a better position at a school who appreciates her. Absolutely ridiculous this has happened over a historic piece of art. Lousy parents. Children should be encouraged to learn of the world and all of the wonderful things, places and people in it.
Yeah, although it is religious and religion has no place in schools
@Buster of Covid Deniers maybe move to a different country.
@justmejenny go for it kiddo. Move to a religious African country since you love those things so much
@Buster of Covid Deniers you’re such a waste of a person.
You know, yeah, it’s appropriate if you’re in college where I learned about it. But not a 6th grade class. You must be a mor’on with no standards to children
I would say that Floridians are going to be embarrassed about this period in their history in another 20 years, but I lived in North Beach for a few years.
They won’t ever even remember this, much less take a lesson from it.
That’s my mom’s most favorite piece!
Oh!
Thank you for The Goonies reference!
@Rory Dobbs Loved that movie growing up
@Carpet Beetle Oh it’s a classic! So proud of Data winning an Oscar!
Did she know Michelangelo sodomized young boys? Literally everyone in Florence sodomized young boys during that time period. That’s why it was created. You’re welcome.
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Conservative snowflakes
Cloistered medicated wrecks made a ruckus.
This is BS I would say Fire me Fools and I will stand tall for Sanity
Oh it’s Florida … There you go
Healthy Minds are open, Not closed and welcome honest Debate (never derision)
Wha
So yeah! Why so much hate on nudity?! Especially on the female human?!
On Inside Edition’s channel: the modesty yearbooks is one thing, the “too revealing” (two-piece) bikinis is one thing, the “pink tax” is another, but censoring a topless little girl who thought up an ingenious strategy to stay cool in a stuffy living room during a Tennessee house fire? That’s really crossing the line!
America is so soft. 🤣 This is what you clowns are worried over and not gender fluid classes? Cmon ppl, the world’s at war, Russia is literally training the next generation of invaders how to field strip AK’s while you’re arguing about a naked statue historically regarded as one of humanities greatest pieces. 👏
And I’m quite certain that the three parents who complained were probably quite supportive of that guy who stated that, “he could grab them be the p___y!”
It is so ironic that parents can’t stop kids transgender, but can stop them from seeing naked David!
Hey, aren’t these the same kids who are always drawing the same in online games?
Same what?
The Simpsons did it! The Simpsons did it!!
Remember when The Simpsons predicted this would happen?
They will put a statue of Larry the Cable Guy up next week..
Are these stunted, complaining parents the same who accept alphabet soup ideology and think trans anything is legitimate?
If they have a problem with a statue then most likely not. They are most likely right wing.
A statue being naked anyway.
???? You do realize the parents that got mad at Republicans right??
It’s HEBREW, it’s not for the heathen anyway…………
So left wingers have a problem with statues of confederate Generals and leaders and right wingers have a problem with nude statues.
Lets make a naked Confederate statue and then both sides can be equally offended.
No problem with teachers talking about race and inequality so long as they remember to talk about ALL INEQUALITIES OVER THE YEARS and not just of one races struggles. Not gender. Maybe in their last year or 2 certainly not 6th graders. We make our BIG decisions as an adult. Children change their minds on everything like the weather so anything life-changing to their body and how they are recognised should be done as an INFORMED ADULT. Art is art tho.
*Types in stuff in Google….
Aren’t all animals naked?
Florida officially became Communist state. Well done GOP.
Not communist, just authoritarian. Definitely not communist tho
They mentioned there were other factors besides the showing of David. I, honestly, do not believe that she was fired for only showing a work of art. The media has a habit of sensationalizing and focusing on small details, also of inciting and fomenting hate and division. When you read or dig further you find out there is more to the story.
it took 3 karens and kens to wreck this woman’s career and she didn’t even plan or teach that lesson. why these be the loudest ones lying about how they value educators/vets/freedom/god- but go ahead, keep chasing out educated ppl and business bc you dont know tf ‘woke’ is, see the future you have left for your kids. don’t complain when you have the FL you want and deserve, that you fought for.
Will the same parents start complaining because of the shortage of teachers?
This is so stupid. So who is woke. So if you go to a museum and cave men don’t have shirts on you close museum it’s a statue with history
Ridiculous!
A bet those parents are freaks
Idiot’s don’t know what woke means. To be “woke” politically in the Black community means that someone is informed, educated and conscious of social injustice and racial inequality, …
Florida’s self-induced teacher shortage is just going to get worse.
Better to have young boys learning a trade than to be groomed by pedophiles.
Every place seems to have a teacher shortage. I’m a teacher in Texas and the shortage (from what I can see) is based on the following factors:
1. Unruly children with no consequences
2. Parents who are either overbearing or uninvolved (this is the factor that almost made me quit)
3. Lack of support from admin
4. Heavy workload with poor support–too many meetings, planning period taken away so I have to either stay on campus late or work at home to complete what I couldn’t during the day
Did anybody notice that the da Santas vocabulary is pretty limited to wok. Maybe he needs more time reading books
People like you get on my nerves because you are an elitist. Just because a person has a limited vocabulary doesn’t mean they should be looked down upon.
Poveri americani 😂😂😂😂😂 David of Michelangelo is standing naked in public since 1504.. no one complain😂😂 poveri, poveri americani ottusi
You know how many people probably walk by that every day even kids it gives kids and some adults confidence and courage
A long time ago I interviewed for a teaching job at a private high school in Red Bluff CA. The principal told me if a film showing the Venus de Milo was shown in class the parents would call complaining of pornography. This was in the 1980’s in California long before anyone dreamed of this happening now. 😒
So Florida is 20 years behind, amazing, thanks for that factoid. Still sad but it shows that there may be hope yet.
In the 80‘s I was asked what is the title of this painting (Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix) my response was „Paris or Bust“. Which was a welcomed joke. I am glad to be educated in Illinois it was the breast education I could have.
Simpsons did it.
Keep repressing America its obviously working
hahahah you are now officially showing in your page …..you meant to say now adays kids will not see in you tube your post ….
Smh sigh
Americans are so prude it’s embarrassing.
These parents act like their child doesnt know what Euphoria is about 😂😂😂😂
Its not sexual nudity it’s… art…
Like it’s not supposed to be sexual….
People have NEVER had a problem with this type of art until now…
To all the people trying to say that it was the liberals that got mad…. it was Republicans…
Yes, people have always had a problem with sodomy and graven images. Why do you think the Jews don’t have a naked statue of juvenile David?
Shown*
Come on guys.
Best for Branch Floridian art books to not have illustrations.
We’re doomed. This is what happens when you give stupid people a voice.
And they call the woke snowflakes lol.
Yup, the far right and far left have more in common than they want to admit. Both are offended by petty little things and want to raise their children in safe spaces.
Lmao classic jesus freaks reaction. They probably don’t even know that the staue is based on a character from the bible. Morons!
SpongeBob forgot to add the seashell on this one
So they can’t see this but they can show trans being naked.
They cant see either
Sounds like alot of people in Florida just doesn’t want their kids to know anything.
I bet those parents/snowflakes know who Michelangelo was and what David look like from their days of school. But they are so backwoods prudish that they cripple kids. And by the way what about Madonna breastfeeding baby Jesus in churches? Is that not scandalous? Those poor kids sitting in Sunday mass looking at statues or paintings of Maddona with bare breasts….
They’re trying their hardest to change the meaning of woke. That word has had meaning for decades. Bunch of weird ones.
I know, it once means being against the system or at least be socially aware, but now its all conspiracy and conservative nutjobs appropriating it to people they didnt like
It’s odd that nude art statues are banned but gun culture is acceptable… We live in a weird time.
Or that lewd men in drag interacting with kids is acceptable.
Resigned not fired…the difference
They threatened to fire her if she didn’t resign. That’s how it works in a lot of jobs.
Yea why would that be an issue …. insane people think art like this is innaproproate
That art was created during and for the man boy love period of Florence. It’s a pedophile statue, it’s blasphemous, and it’s a graven image. It’s Satanic.
Wait bra!!! No wait!!! The same body parts are attached to them 🤨W….T….F….???
Evidently, not all parents are well read. People love banning books that they don’t know how to read.
wow
One of the most beautiful and famous statue in history right next to The Thinker statue. ❤
It’s a Sodomite statue.
@Francis Marion what are saying exactly? That David was a sodomite or that Michaelangelo was a sodomite? And let’s be real here, the overwhelming majority of Americans support sodomites and their lifestyles even so-called Christians.
My god, this is like something straight out of South Park.
All part of the left wanting to control your children
How are you justifying this?
@Air20 I saw a report that said China gives most universities in American millions of dollars every year. I saw interviews with college kids where they asked who George Washington was and one of them says didn’t he play in a band?
@DAVE Smith 1. Nothing of what you said makes any sense whatsoever as it just doesn’t relate.
2. Can i have a source for the china thing?
3. So? That report could be skewed as those types of things usually are, i can assure you most of america knows who george Washington is
Right-Wing Platform for the 21st Century: Make Americans Morons, Forever.
Heh, heh. Much better for kids to share genital selfies via social media.
OMG ridiculous
Tell me your parents are dumb&proud without telling me they’re dumb&proud.
I saw pic of this statue when I was 8-9 & was reading greek mythology and history books. I giggled at a little stone peepee and that was pretty much it. I moved on to Zeus & Hercules and beef between gods – you know, things that are more interesting to a child…
What a bunch of hillbillies 😂
Ignorant Americans
Haha Ron is getting fired too.
So many ignorant people out there now
They had better not show kids paintings of the baby Jesus…. 🙏
Florida and the republican party in general is a freaking JOKE. This country struggles BECAUSE of that party.
No sense of context? The human form in itself is not obscene imo. I had an automatically correct male baby doll when I was 7 or 8 they sell them at the store I had seen real babies too by then. SMH. Grade 6 if they are going to treat 11 year olds like morons don’t be surprised how stupid they will be at 21 31 etc. too at 11 some are going to start puberty shouldn’t they know some facts of life by then?
Here’s a fact. Michelangelo was a pedophile.
The world we live in these days 😅
Immature parents are a woe unto Thier own children!
Woke = Black
Freakin wackos…
What happened to the United States? 🤦
We never had a homosexual sub culture take us over like the Greeks and Romans.
The Dark ages were more enlightened than todays GOP.
I’m surprised that the GOP hasn’t called for burning of witches.
The GOP is a party of insurrection, subjugation, misery and death.
Register and vute. You and your loved ones lives depend upon it.
Those statues should’ve been removed from American society along time ago. I always wondered why people wanted to keep them around.
this is your brain on baptism
If the sissy lala is that sensitive he shouldn’t be teaching
Thanks governor keep the woke trash out of Florida !! go to NY or Cal if you want your child to be professional victims I hear Chicago is nice this time of year !
I’m sure in Florida this statue is more scary than people with guns 😅
And their plan to teach students about art, biology and history isss….??? 🤔 Or is the plan keeping them ignorant?
Cannot talk about race, yet history is plagued of racial related stuff. They can’t discuss gender because they’re not allowed to discuss human biology, development and reproduction? Yet it’s okay to push the LGTBQ+RSTUVWXYZ agenda? They don’t know pornography entails sexual intercourse? 🤣🤣🤣😂😂
and USA is wondering why all the world hates them 🙄🤮🙄