Over the past week or so, mainstream media has been going wild with a report that a Florida school principal was fired for teaching a lesson on Michelangelo's David statue. But as it turns out, it wasn't true. Shocking.

Media claimed parents deemed the lesson about the statue to be pornographic. This was clearly meant to hit back at Governor DeSantis's policies that ban porn in schools. Since Michelaneglo's work clearly isn't porn, the media tried to frame the story as if DeSantis's policies and conservative parents are ridiculously Puritan and actually limiting children's education.

But they're not, of course. DeSantis and conservatives literally just want to ban porn in library books. Because there was literally porn in library books. And that's something most parents would call a "problem."

Plus, the principal in question wasn't even fired for this lesson. Mark Hemingway of RealClearInvestigations sleuthed this out by reading past the headline of CNN's article, in which they admitted the principal wasn't fired for the lesson.

The article quoted the school board chair as saying, "She was not let go because of Michelangelo's David lesson."

Oh.

It goes on to explain:

"'Our school is two and a half years old. Every year we show that picture in the Renaissance Art class taught to our sixth graders,' [the school board chair] added. The problem that arose in this instance was that the procedure for notifying parents of the upcoming lesson was not followed."

"'We aren't trying to ban the picture,' he said, referring to the statue of David. 'We think it's beautiful, but we are going to make sure the concept of parental rights is supreme in Florida and at our charter school.'"

And 97% of the parents were fine with the lesson. So no, Florida schools do not consider beautiful pieces of Renaissance artwork to be pornographic. They consider pornographic library books to be pornographic. And they just want to make sure parents are aware of what their children are being taught.

The audacity.

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