On one hand this seems like a pretty minor incident at a school outside Paris. On the other hand, this is part of a larger trend which has led to violence several times already. The incident started with a group of young Muslim students who objected to looking at a painting which included nudes during an art class.
The row began when a teacher showed Diana and Actaeon, a Renaissance-era painting portraying a mythical scene from Roman poet Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
Several first-year high school students, aged 11 and 12, said they were offended by the work by 17th-Century Italian painter Giuseppe Cesari, Sophie Venetitay from the Snes-FSU teachers union told AFP.
“Some students averted their gaze, felt offended, said they were shocked,” Ms Venetitay said, adding that “some also alleged the teacher made racist comments” during a class discussion.
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