Posted on 08/27/2017 2:51:41 PM PDT by 11th_VA
Students and parents at a high school in Alabama are calling for the removal of a classroom LGBT “rainbow pride” flag, saying it is comparable to the Confederate flag.
More than 2,400 people thus far have signed a Change.org petition calling for the flag to be taken down at Auburn High School. “The following signers of this petition ask that the Pride Flag flown in Mrs. Yeager’s classroom be removed as we strongly feel that it creates a hostile and provocative learning environment for students not comfortable to openly supporting the LGBTQ+ community in a public school where students come from diverse political and religious backgrounds,” the petition reads.
“Furthermore, we believe it is unprofessional and distracting for a teacher to be so openly displaying their political views in an unbiased and socially neutral public setting.”
The New York Post reports the pride flag was hung up two weeks ago as part of a school fair.
The students’ petition asks school principal Shannon Pignato to “consider the uproar and chaos that would ensue were a teacher to hang for example a Confederate, Christian, or Heterosexual Flag in their classroom.
“There would likely be protests, emails from teachers, and threatening of lawsuits from parents with differing viewpoints. As such, one does not see teachers hanging these flags in classrooms due to the same argument that it is unprofessional and can create a hostile and unideal learning environment.
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Yeah! LOL
The students do a little "survey" and find out if the muncher has "come-on" to any of the girl students. If she has, accuse her of being a child molester.
Earlier liberals wanted equality for groups. The Social Justice victimhood stack explicitly calls for separate moral standards for various groups, the more officially oppressed, the higher up on the hierarchy. Intersectionality can be explained as people trying to move up the stack by claiming multiple group memberships, more oppressed, so higher than the others with just one check box.
The new class structure social justice warriors are demanding results in unfair treatment based on group membership, which they see as fair because those groups are officially oppressed.
This has resulted in contradictions / double standards that are only insane if you expect them to stick to the Western standard of fairness - which they’ve abandoned.
Hate crime / civil rights rules stating that homosexual owned businesses can refuse service per their rights but Christians cannot refuse service per their oppressive faith. The Civil Rights Commission issued rulings in the same week to that effect, where a homosexual could refuse service to a traditional marriage group per his free speech but to refuse homosexual marriage was a violation of theirs.
Diversity training intentionally promotes homosexuality and transgenderism as moral, acceptable, without seeing that this is ideological proselytizing. Express conservative or traditional opinions, that is a punishable offense.
Liberals defining their views as love make conservative views hate. And Human Resource departments “trust and respect” policies used to penalize actual bullying and sexual harassment are routinely used to penalize sharing a conservative opinion because it is by liberal definition impolite, threatening, disrespectful.
At least someone is doing something.
Lately, the conservatives whine; and yet this stuff happens in just about every school in the nation.
Good for these folks.
(And I will bet that MOST kids don’t care—they don’t care for it either way.)
The fag flag is more of a religious symbol, so it’s doubly offensive.
I call them flaggots.
Public schools are much more involved with sports, arts and social clubs than real academics. All of the social clubs are fueled by the left leaning faculty as conservatives are weeded out year by year.
Except in Colorado where everyone is weeded out.
I despise the use of “and so it begins”!
The Fag flag is much worse as it is a sign of depravity
The Fag flag is much worse as it is a symbol of depravity
The Fag flag is much worse as it is a symbol of depravity
The fag flag is much worse as it is a symbol of depravity
Yeah - it gets old...
POW/MIA is a political agenda? Yeah, I guess so, as the left hates the military.
LOL !!!
Yes. I may agree with a “POW” flag or MIA flag and you and I may see them as non-political.
However I don’t think that is a universal view.
I think PUBLIC schools need to be totally agnostics( teachers and administrators) as much as possible, as to all social, religious and political agendas. Leave those things out of school and the schools would not become vehicles for them. That position is about PUBLIC schools being faithfully everyone’s public school and not an institution captured by or a captive of any such agenda and operating AGAINST the views of those students (and their parents) who disagree.
;-)
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