I don’t know if the school does not allow them to have any kind of sexual images, no matter if they are mythical Greek gods or what, because even in the 10 years I have been out, things have changed dramatically. It could be because of the age they are that no one would pay attention to her presentation because they’d all be giggling or making comments. Or it could be that she knew she’d blush in front of all of her classmates and that would be more humiliating than having the pictures on her board. In my opinion, I would think the cartoon images would give her a lower mark for not being authentic enough, but hey I am not the teacher. I think that if they are old enough to be studying these gods than they are old enough to know how they were truly represented.
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I’m pretty sure the teacher would not have said a thing about the naked statues on the posters.
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In the boy’s room, they learned exactly what we did. They got to see naked lady bits and the interiors just as we got to see naked boy bits and their interiors.

When the classes were re-co-eded (yeah, made up word), we all refused to look each other in the eyes.

In the span of a single afternoon, we were all thinking “OMG, that’s what’s under [Insert Insanely Cute Boy or Girl's Name Here]‘s clothes?”

In some cases, we were even looking at our teachers with a slight level of nausea. (At that point, I’m glad my teacher was a woman because I don’t think I could have handled looking at a male teacher through opened eyes.)

As a result, we became a bit more shy about nudity and our own bodies. And it didn’t go away for a while…in fact, for me, it’s lingered well into adulthood. Plus, the amount of sexuality that we’re exposed to (and by we, I mean everyone including children) on a daily basis isn’t helping.

Long comment short(er), I believe your daughter is at a healthy stage. She’s beginning to blossom and her lady bits are becoming more pronounced. It’s jarring to say the least. LOL

The best you can do is love her and remind her that it’s normal and that she has absolutely nothing to be ashamed of. And it seems as though you’ve already got that covered.

As for the nudity in art situation, I completely agree with you that there’s nothing wrong with it–however, at that age, we don’t quite look at art the same way. Not saying your daughter is not mature, but being able to look at art with sound judgment comes with life experience and a certain level of maturity. Give her time, I’m sure she’ll come around, then look back on this little argument and laugh.
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I think if I was hanging out with girlfriends at that age, I probably would have giggled and said “ew” to naked male art statues just because of embarassment, and also just not knowing what to say.

Now if my mom had been helping me with a school project and we were forced to handle printouts of said statues, well I’m sure there would have been a lot of giggling too, and embarassment. And if my mom would have tried to be all modern and cool and start defending male anatomy in art I probably would have flipped and started arguing with her. (Well, because at that age I argued with her about practically everything.)

But when it comes down to it, there is no way in heck I would have ever had naked statue pictures on one of my school projects. Way too much potential to be teased by other kids, not to mention having to carry the thing into school and thinking “everyone knows I’m holding pictures of penises.” Kind of like Doris Day in That Touch of Mink, where she thinks everyone knows about her affair. (I love that movie BTW.)

Anyway, I think that your kids are perfectly normal.
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My daughter is getting to the stage where her nakedness is embarrassing to her, but this doesn’t stop her from walking in on me in the bathroom or bedroom. She’ll just say, “Oh, we have the same parts.”
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