Students from Passaic High School want the school board to scrap a new policy that allows only American flags to be flown on school grounds. Students want to fly the Gay Pride flag during Pride month in June. Here, Camila Perez, a freshman, was one of about a dozen students who protested at the school board meeting on Monday night.Some Passaic high school students want to raise the rainbow flag on school grounds to celebrate Pride month—just like they did last year.
“I think it is unfair and it discriminates,” said Camila Perez, who draped herself in the rainbow flag when she spoke to trustees at the school board meeting on Monday night. “It bothers me and it bothers the whole community.” “It wasn’t so much of a complaint as it was inquiries as to how the flags were put up there,” Rodriguez said. Passaic is a diverse city with many ethnicities and religions, he said, so it was easier to enact a blanket ban than to have to choose which flag displays to allow.But the state’s leading LGBTQ advocate said the board had done its students a diservice by lining up against the LGBTQ community.
One teacher, Jesus Velez, spoke of the “hurt” that he and members of the LGBTQ+ community feel. Velez reminded the board that New Jersey was one of the first states to require its public schools to have a curriculum that is LGBTQ-inclusive.
Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)
Fly fly fly all flags
Schools AND students do not need to advertise or discuss sexual preference, they need to learn how to read, write, learn math, learn economics and budgeting so they can learn how to live and suceed financially
No matter your identity, we are all Americans under one flag🇺🇸! Flying a flag that isolates people that aren’t gay separates us into groups and not at all inclusive
When did Passaic move to Alabama?
The only flags flying at our schools should be the American and their State Flags.
As it should be
Good!! They don’t even allow the pledge of allegiance for God sake
In this case let’s just start hanging every flag every where. No Damn reason at all for this to happen.
Greater fights to fight.
i want to fly the straight flag too but they disallowed it. Do you see how stupid this sounds?
Why wouldn’t they be able to fly the flag? Are we in 1950’s still? We should’ve been flying this flag! stonewall GovMurphy NJDHS njassemblydems NJArtsCouncil
Huh? Whatsupwidat GovMurphy
So glad this generation is so inclusive - for equal rights and justice! It’s so awesome to see young people speak their voice and do what we should’ve done years ago!!!
Because it doesn't speak for everyone! 😒
Hate
Not every moment has to be a 'Moment'
High school seniors should be wanting to read beyond a fourth grade level. Young people reorganize your priorities for your life.
If nobody was complaining, there was no reason to pass that rule 👍
it shouldnt be able to about time state does something right
It's about time school boards kept to the basics
Good.
They wipe their ass with my flag but want to display theirs.
Ya know, maybe it's because of these sodomites this country is in such bad shape. They took God out of school and our hearts.
The stupidity has no end. smh
it’s honestly not fair that they don’t get to
Only flags flown should be the state and US flags. Easy fix. Nothing to see here. Move along. 🤣🥃👍🏼
Ask the Blue Lives Matter flag and see how far you get
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