Temecula School Board Outlaws Pride
Do you remember the hissyfit that Temecula’s Ultra Right-Wing school board trustees pitched over the adoption of a widely-used California social studies curriculum? Yeah, THAT one. The one that nearly cost California taxpayers $1.5 million in fines.
Backed into a corner, the trustees suddenly saw the light, reversed themselves, and adopted the text that they claimed glorified pedophilia as long as they could launch an investigation into the “questionable” paragraphs.
So now they, along with another Left Coast school district, have drawn a line in the sand over a new cause celebre: Pride Flags.
They don’t want ’em.
The Hill has their stories well-documented.
Out from obscurity, a SF bay area school district, the Sunol Glen School District has weighed in on the issue, per The Mercury News.
The district is comprised of one school, an elementary school. Their governing board voted 2-1 to ban the Pride Flag from flying over their school. Just the Pride Flag.
1st Amentment lawsuit, anyone?
Temecula Valley’s school board was considerably slyer. In their vote this week, the board voted 3-2 to ban ALL flags in their schools except for the state and national flags. How brilliant is that?
How can you fault a school board for forbidding the Pride Flag when instead they effectively discriminate against all flags?
Too bad. It reminds me of my previous workplace, a high school, that took pride in the fact that many in their student population came from a wide array of countries. So much so that they displayed the national flags of every one of their students.
Like this:
OK, the US flag is a little bigger. That’s fine.
This news also comes on the heels of the story of a Southern California shop owner who was shot to death for the crime of flying a Pride Flag in front of her store.
What class, huh?
Unlike Sunol Glen SD, three of Temecula Valley SD trustees are already under recall for their past indiscretions. You can do that in California. But not to be outdone, Sunol Glen parents are making sure that two of Sunol Glen’s trustees are about to meet the same fate.
Same rule in deep red Carroll County, Maryland.
The schools and the ounty public library are committed to equality, however.
https://www.wbal.com/article/569911/3/pride-flag-among-others-banned-by-carroll-county-board-of-education#:~:text=The%20Carroll%20County%20School%20Board%20has%20voted%20to,as%20other%20flags%20that%20can%20represent%20political%20symbols.
1There is a Muslim-controlled community in Michigan that’s doing the same thing. Prejudice by anyone is horrible.
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/wayne/2023/07/09/lgbtq-pride-flag-ban-hamtramck/70393216007/
2Tangentially related, but … several years ago I got tired of trying to sort out my black umbrella from the dozens of others drying out in the back of conference rooms and classrooms. So I found a multicolored one that satisfied my three criteria: folding to fit in my bookbag, oversized to fit my increasingly bloated carcass, and not black.
In the past year it as become a weird focus of LBGT supporters who smile and say “like your umbrella”, to the MAGATs that shout or scream insults and garbled political slogans at me. I just wanted something to keep the rain off.
BTW, a tip if you’re on a university campus or at a large corporate or government site and it starts raining. Go to their lost-and-found and tell them you’ve lost a black folding umbrella. When they bring out the dozens of them in their storage, point at one and say “that’s it!”.
3I am so ashamed of the bigots in California. You would think they understand they are wrong and hateful, that they put children at risk, that most of us here do not support their twisted ideas. Maybe they can move to Idaho where a lot of our bigots and haters have already moved. I know this personally.
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