The Paso Robles Joint Unified School District has banned large Pride flags in its classrooms after a group of students posted a TikTok showing themselves attempting to flush a flag and defecating on it, local newspaper The Tribune reported. The incident started "about three weeks ago," the news item said, when two students at Paso Robles High School "ripped down the 3-by-5-foot LGBTQ Pride flag that was hanging on one of the walls" of a classroom. Another student gave chase, but was unable to stop the theft. "Later, a video surfaced on TikTok of students attempting to flush the rainbow Pride flag down a toilet," the article added. When that didn't work, "the video showed one student defecating on the flag in the toilet, according to those who had seen and heard about the video," which is no longer online. Calling the vandalism "an act of hate directed at the LGBTQ community," teacher Geoffrey Land said that the school's students "felt that attack very acutely." Students were quick to take action and replace the stolen and vandalized flag. The school district's response, however, was markedly different: To ban flags larger than two feet by two feet, as well as banning all flags that are alterations of the U.S. flag. District Superintendent Curt Dubost sent a letter to the district's personnel, noting that Pride flags "to many are a symbol of safety, inclusion and equity," and adding that the district has "a duty...to ensure that hate speech and bullying conduct does not create an unsafe campus environment." Tap link in bio to continue on @EDGEmedianetwork ?️???? ?: Getty
October 28, 2021
The Paso Robles Joint Unified School District has banned large Pride flags in its classrooms after a group of students posted a TikTok showing themselves attempting to flush a flag and defecating on it, local newspaper The Tribune reported.
The incident started "about three weeks ago," the news item said, when two students at Paso Robles High School "ripped down the 3-by-5-foot LGBTQ Pride flag that was hanging on one of the walls" of a classroom. Another student gave chase, but was unable to stop the theft. "Later, a video surfaced on TikTok of students attempting to flush the rainbow Pride flag down a toilet," the article added. When that didn't work, "the video showed one student defecating on the flag in the toilet, according to those who had seen and heard about the video," which is no longer online.
Calling the vandalism "an act of hate directed at the LGBTQ community," teacher Geoffrey Land said that the school's students "felt that attack very acutely." Students were quick to take action and replace the stolen and vandalized flag. The school district's response, however, was markedly different: To ban flags larger than two feet by two feet, as well as banning all flags that are alterations of the U.S. flag. District Superintendent Curt Dubost sent a letter to the district's personnel, noting that Pride flags "to many are a symbol of safety, inclusion and equity," and adding that the district has "a duty...to ensure that hate speech and bullying conduct does not create an unsafe campus environment."
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The incident started "about three weeks ago," the news item said, when two students at Paso Robles High School "ripped down the 3-by-5-foot LGBTQ Pride flag that was hanging on one of the walls" of a classroom. Another student gave chase, but was unable to stop the theft. "Later, a video surfaced on TikTok of students attempting to flush the rainbow Pride flag down a toilet," the article added. When that didn't work, "the video showed one student defecating on the flag in the toilet, according to those who had seen and heard about the video," which is no longer online.
Calling the vandalism "an act of hate directed at the LGBTQ community," teacher Geoffrey Land said that the school's students "felt that attack very acutely." Students were quick to take action and replace the stolen and vandalized flag. The school district's response, however, was markedly different: To ban flags larger than two feet by two feet, as well as banning all flags that are alterations of the U.S. flag. District Superintendent Curt Dubost sent a letter to the district's personnel, noting that Pride flags "to many are a symbol of safety, inclusion and equity," and adding that the district has "a duty...to ensure that hate speech and bullying conduct does not create an unsafe campus environment."
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