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Burlington community calls for action after middle school students disrupt Pride event - Burlington middle school students reportedly tore down Pride banners, chanted "U.S.A. are my pronouns," and glared down students and teachers supporting Pride.
Boston Globe ^ | June 12, 2023 | Susannah Sudborough

Posted on 06/13/2023 5:01:35 AM PDT by Jim Noble

The Burlington community is calling on town leaders to take action in the wake of a recent middle school incident during which students disrupted a Pride event...

According to a letter to parents from Marshall Simonds Middle School Principal Cari Purchase, the incident took place during a school-approved spirit day celebrating Pride month on Friday, June 2. The spirit day was requested and sponsored by Spectrum Club — a student group for LGBTQ+ students and allies...

As part of the event, the letter said, Spectrum Club decorated the school with handmade “Happy Pride Month” signs and educational posters with messages such as “Why it’s not ok to say ‘That’s so gay’.” The club members also put up rainbow streamers and Pride flag banners, handed out rainbow stickers, and invited students and faculty to wear rainbow clothing...

But throughout the day, some students showed their disdain for the event in a number of ways. The letter said students were seen “being inappropriate” with the stickers and tearing down the banners and signs.

Other students tried to intimidate faculty and students showing support for Pride through glares, chanted “U.S.A. are my pronouns” in the halls, and wore red, white, and blue clothes with face paint in protest of the event, the letter said...

(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: burlington; children; education; freespeech; indoctrination; massachusetts; pride; pronouns; publicschools; students; usa; woke
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1 posted on 06/13/2023 5:01:35 AM PDT by Jim Noble
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Finally, students with balls. Go for it. Make the left cry.


2 posted on 06/13/2023 5:03:59 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Jim Noble

Resisting indoctrination.


3 posted on 06/13/2023 5:04:40 AM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: Jim Noble
As has been attributed to many (Churchill for one), "A lie can make it halfway around the world before the truth can get its pants."

Looks like the truth is putting on its pants.

4 posted on 06/13/2023 5:08:05 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (See my FR homepage for a link to the entire Bible narrated by David Suchet on youtube. FREE!)
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This is surprising. I guess there are still a few that don’t have the herd mentality.


5 posted on 06/13/2023 5:08:50 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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You go kids. You have more support than you probably know.


6 posted on 06/13/2023 5:10:10 AM PDT by dforest
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Burlington, Massachusetts? You’ve got to be kidding me. The worm is turning. Way to go to these young Americans.


7 posted on 06/13/2023 5:12:01 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The southern invasion has been a big success. Foreigner invaders are running the government now.)
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To: Jim Noble

“Why it’s not ok to say ‘That’s so gay’.”

It’s okay with me, always has been, always will be.

That’s so gay, is offensive?

But then again I’m not thin skinned.

You can’t be if you are a Christian.

Add white, male, heterosexual who supports a nationalist like Trump to that and you better have some really thick skin


8 posted on 06/13/2023 5:13:41 AM PDT by Biblebelter
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The enablers of evil are upset that the students resisted indoctrination.

How can anyone be proud of disgusting homosexual acts and body mutilation?


9 posted on 06/13/2023 5:13:43 AM PDT by hoosierham (Freedom isnt free)
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Has president poopy pants swatted their homes, jailed their families and shot their pets yet?


10 posted on 06/13/2023 5:15:28 AM PDT by RandallFlagg ("Okay. As long as the paperwork is clean, you boys can do what you like out there." -Fifi)
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Oh, no. “Glared down”? Awful, how how could they?


12 posted on 06/13/2023 5:18:10 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Toda la creacion pregona la grandeza del Senor.)
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There’s hope yet for America.


13 posted on 06/13/2023 5:18:38 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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14 posted on 06/13/2023 5:23:58 AM PDT by Bounced2X (Boomer - I survived childhood with no bike helmet.)
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Ahhh.. freedom. So uncomfortable and distressing to the woke sensibilities.


15 posted on 06/13/2023 5:32:17 AM PDT by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Strange that a man with his wealth would have to resort to prostitution.)
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What a misleading lying headline. Sounds like the community raised no call for action at all. Instead the principal of the school wrote a letter to parents expressing her complaints about students who no longer tolerate the insanity.

That letter by the principal, was then followed by a letter from the superintendent of schools, in which he too says that this action is unacceptable.

Next to write a letter, which is the cause of the BS to begin with, the Burlington Equity Coalition — a group of local non-profits working to promote diversity and inclusion, condemning what happened at the school and calling on town leaders to take action.

The group demanded the school district discipline students involved in the protest and fill the position of diversity, inclusion, and equity (DEI) director for the district — a position that has been open for nearly a year.

So no, the community itself called for no action whatsoever. Just more lies being peddled from the lying press.

Time to show support for the students who are fed up with the BS they are being subjected to on a daily basis, not limited to just the BS pride month expressing support for sexual proclivities which is no accomplishment at all, let alone one to be celebrated for an entire month.

16 posted on 06/13/2023 5:33:12 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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This makes me happy this morning. Those kids know that the alphabet movement is wrong and aren’t having any part of it.


17 posted on 06/13/2023 5:33:12 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Jim Noble

Every generation rebels against its predecessor.

The MAGA revolution is underway.

The kids are all right.


18 posted on 06/13/2023 5:33:12 AM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trintarian. Deal with it!)
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Kids will always rebel against the established authority. That’s what rock and roll was. Surprised there isn’t more of this. I suppose that’s why kids are medicated and docile these days to prevent this sort of thing.


19 posted on 06/13/2023 5:34:20 AM PDT by Rural_Michigan
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It was always “cool” for yutes to rebel against the “establishmnet”

And the “establishment” these days are the perv and perv supporters...

My how the worm turns.


20 posted on 06/13/2023 5:35:03 AM PDT by dominusobiscum (Scripture is infallible, interpretations of Scripture not so much.)
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