A viral news story about a Florida principal, reportedly forced to resign over a lesson on Michelangelo’s nude sculpture of the biblical “David,” simply isn’t true, according to a school trustee and the principal.
Despite media reports that have attracted attention around the world, no one associated in the matter called the world-famous, 17-foot statue, or the art lesson featuring it, “pornographic,” said Barney Bishop III, board chairman of the Tallahassee Classical School.
And news stories asserting the principal of the school was forced to resign over the art lesson’s content are “disingenuous,” Bishop told The Epoch Times….