Passaic high school students hang Pride banners after rule kept them from flying flag

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Students at a school in New Jersey wanted to celebrate Pride month, but when a rule wouldn't let them fly the flag on their flagpole, they found a way around that.

Derick Waller reports the state's 16 cent per gallon gas tax is suspended, and some counties are going further.The banners are how students responded. One student, who didn't want to be identified, told Eyewitness News reporter Toni Yates why.

"You can't go on tell us how to feel every single day when a lot of us have internal anger towards it," the student said. Poet Gregory Rodriguez lives in Passaic and has children in the school system. He said he has no issue with the LGBTQ community. "The problem with being gay, because I've been around for quite some time and I've worked with the gay community -- it's become politicized," Rodriguez said."The question is, were the teachers informed, was the community informed," he said.

For students like the young lady Eyewitness News spoke to, their push to reverse the Policy 1316 is not over.----------

 

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