David And The Sixth Graders

They may well have parents who have inflicted nudity upon them from birth.
Maybe they do, maybe they don't. This is not a school's decision to thrust nudity on young children, overriding the parents who don't want their sixth graders exposed to nudity. If a parent wants to do this at home then fine.
 
Maybe they do, maybe they don't. This is not a school's decision to thrust nudity on young children, overriding the parents who don't want their sixth graders exposed to nudity. If a parent wants to do this at home then fine.
No school is "thrusting nudity" upon anyone. (It's a picture of a big piece of sculpted marble.)

They are educating kids regarding the greatest artistic masterpieces that Western culture has produced without concessions to phobias.
 
No school is "thrusting nudity" upon anyone. (It's a picture of a big piece of sculpted marble.)

They are educating kids regarding the greatest artistic masterpieces that Western culture has produced without concessions to phobias.
There are literally zillions of art masterpieces they can show children that aren't nudes.
 
There are literally zillions of art masterpieces they can show children that aren't nudes.
What is your problem with nudity in art? What evils do you believe it promotes?

Do you not distinguish between the pornography 6th graders can readily find on line and an academic approach to great art?
 
What is your problem with nudity in art? What evils do you believe it promotes?

Do you not distinguish between the pornography 6th graders can readily find on line and an academic approach to great art?
I'm an adult. I have no problem with it. My problem is showing it to sixth graders.
 
Not even the Christian college associated with the school wants anything to do with what the school did.



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.”


 

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