Florida High School Student Suspended After Handing Out Pride Flags

[fooferdoggie]

sounds like as usual florida stupid is at work.


A Florida high school student has been suspended indefinitely after handing out pride flags during a walkout to protest the state’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bill.
Flagler Palm Coast High School junior Jack Petocz helped organize a statewide walkout on Thursday to protest House Bill 1557, a hugely controversial measure that would prohibit school instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade.


About 500 students at his Palm Coast school participated in Thursday’s walkout, chanting, “Say gay!” Petocz handed out 200 pride flags he said he purchased with his own money. Students had been given just 15 minutes to protest.
Petocz told the Daytona Beach News-Journal he was called into the principal’s office after the protest, “told I was disrespectful and openly advocating against staff.”

Florida High School Student Suspended After Handing Out Pride Flags

"I may have been suspended, but I will not be silenced. I am proud of who I am," said junior Jack Petocz after a protest against the "Don't Say Gay" bill.

www.huffpost.com

 

[Thomas Veil]

Sounds like the Florida Gezpacho police are hard at work.

I blame Governor Ron DeFascist and the state legislature. They are setting the standard there with their perversely restrictive laws.

 

[fooferdoggie]

Sounds like the Florida Gezpacho police are hard at work.

I blame Governor Ron DeFascist and the state legislature. They are setting the standard there with their perversely restrictive laws.

yep they are going crazy with Christian Right wing laws.

 

[Alli]

yep they are going crazy with Christian Sharia laws.

Let me fix that for ya.

 

[SuperMatt]

More attacks on school kids by Florida’s government. But this time, the kids won!

Florida students win yearbook flap over 'Don't Say Gay' bill

Students at a central Florida high school are declaring victory after taking their protest to their school board over plans to censor a yearbook page showing a student walkout against the state's so-called “Don’t Say Gay” law

abcnews.go.com

 

[rdrr]

Hang on, I thought the bill was limited to classroom teaching in K-3rd grade.

 

[SuperMatt]

Hang on, I thought the bill was limited to classroom teaching in K-3rd grade.

It specifically bans certain teaching in those grades, but it adds a clause about “age appropriate” teaching in other grades that could be interpreted pretty liberally if they want to shut it down in any grade.

The specific language:

…in kindergarten through grade 3 or in a manner that is not age appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards.

The second part of that is open to a wide range of interpretations.

 

[fooferdoggie]

Hang on, I thought the bill was limited to classroom teaching in K-3rd grade.

keep telling yourself that

 

[rdrr]

It specifically bans certain teaching in those grades, but it adds a clause about “age appropriate” teaching in other grades that could be interpreted pretty liberally if they want to shut it down in any grade.

The specific language:



The second part of that is open to a wide range of interpretations.

LOL "state standards", Florida...

 

[Edd]

Can we build a fucking wall around FLA to keep the crazy contained? I can go the rest of my life without visiting again. We don’t need it, let’s have them secede and think it’s their idea. That state is a fucking house of horrors.

 

[DT]

Can we build a fucking wall around FLA to keep the crazy contained? I can go the rest of my life without visiting again. We don’t need it, let’s have them secede and think it’s their idea. That state is a fucking house of horrors.

Can you put a secured door on it so we can escape? Just make it a lock where the combination is a solution to a simple math equation. Since the GOP thinks math is evil and loaded with covert CRT teachings, they'll never figure it out ...

 

[DT]

And I shit you not, I know some people talk the talk, but if things get too far off the rails around here, we will move.

 

[Joe]

And I shit you not, I know some people talk the talk, but if things get too far off the rails around here, we will move.

Same