{"id":1615677,"date":"2022-08-19T07:16:50","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T11:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1615677"},"modified":"2022-08-19T07:17:49","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T11:17:49","slug":"wisconsin-school-board-bans-pride-blm-flags-from-classrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wisconsin-school-board-bans-pride-blm-flags-from-classrooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin School Board Bans Pride, BLM Flags From Classrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwisconsin-school-board-bans-pride-blm-flags-from-classrooms%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1615677&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A Wisconsin school board voted Tuesday to prohibit the displaying of LGBTQ pride and Black Lives Matter flags in classrooms.<\/p>\n<p>The Kettle Moraine school <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/08\/10\/fargo-north-dakota-school-board-votes-not-recite-pledge-allegiance-diversity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">board<\/a> in Wales, Wisconsin, examined a policy that prohibits educators and staff from \u201cpromoting partisan politics and sectarian religious views\u201d which Superintendent Stephen Plum clarified to include pride and Black Lives Matter flags, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox6now.com\/news\/pride-flags-political-kettle-moraine-schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox 6.<\/a> The board approved the policy at the <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/740206554?fbclid=IwAR31RQWscH1-w5WHR1NS26iZbDFBT1iB4Vqr_xATvEmEPSuyL8TQ7LwWaBk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">meeting<\/a>, claiming that the flags are a violation of the code of conduct because they are political. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/08\/12\/florida-school-advisory-labels-lgbtq-race-books\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Florida School Slaps Advisory Labels On More Than 100 LGBTQ, Race-Based Books)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The vote also prohibits teachers from including their <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/08\/11\/national-gay-straight-alliance-capitalism-anti-lgbtq\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pronouns<\/a> in email signatures, Plum said. Public comment was open at the school board meeting but was closed after an hour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you have a policy that says \u2018nothing political,\u2019 does that mean you can\u2019t have a sign up that says, \u2018Support our Troops,\u2019 or \u2018Believe Women\u2019 or \u2018Save the Planet?\u2019 By some people\u2019s definitions, all of those things are political,\u201d Christine Donahoe, an attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin, said at the meeting.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7504673\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7504673\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">People wave Pride flags as they watch the New York City Pride Parade on Fifth Avenue on June 26, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/kettle-moraine-s-new-policy-for-staff-no-pride-flags-in-classrooms-and-pro-noun-usage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">petition<\/a> against the policy was created by two students in the school district, Bethany Provan and Brit Farrar. The petition has received more than 13,000 signatures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen walking into a classroom where we see a pride flag hanging up, we have a sense of comfort and acceptance,\u201d the petition reads. \u201cWe already walk through the halls with fear. We both have experienced very hateful and homophobic comments in the halls of our high school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Kettle Moraine school board did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Wisconsin school board voted Tuesday to prohibit the displaying of LGBTQ pride and Black Lives Matter flags in classrooms.The Kettle Moraine school board in Wales, Wisconsin, examined a policy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1615937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1615677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1615677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1615937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1615677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1615677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1615677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}