{"id":1946819,"date":"2023-06-14T10:26:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T14:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/middle-schoolers-accused-of-homophobia-after-chanting-usa-tearing-down-pride-decorations\/"},"modified":"2023-06-14T10:26:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T14:26:02","slug":"middle-schoolers-accused-of-homophobia-after-chanting-usa-tearing-down-pride-decorations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/middle-schoolers-accused-of-homophobia-after-chanting-usa-tearing-down-pride-decorations\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle Schoolers Accused Of \u2018Homophobia\u2019 After Chanting \u2018USA,\u2019 Tearing Down \u2018Pride\u2019 Decorations"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fmiddle-schoolers-accused-of-homophobia-after-chanting-usa-tearing-down-pride-decorations%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=1946819&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><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Middle schoolers in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/massachusetts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Massachusetts<\/a> were accused of \u201cintolerance and homophobia\u201d after they reportedly revolted against a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/pride\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pride<\/a> celebration at the school and chanted that their pronouns were \u201cUSA.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some students at Marshall Simonds Middle School in Burlington were accused of organizing a protest against a school-approved spirit day celebrating Pride Month, which encouraged students to wear rainbow colors, earlier this month. The event was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/schools\/2023\/06\/12\/burlington-middle-school-students-pride-event-marshall-simonds-select-board-lgbtq\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">led<\/a> by the Spectrum Club, an LGBT club for students and \u201callies.\u201d In response, some students reportedly wore only red, white, and blue colored clothing and chanted, \u201cU.S.A. are my pronouns,\u201d and took down LGBT-themed banners and stickers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThese displays of intolerance and homophobia are unacceptable and impact the whole community,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12190331\/Massachusetts-students-tear-rainbow-decorations-chant-pronouns-U-S-A.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Burlington Equity Coalition co-Chair Nancy Bonassera at a community meeting about the incident. \u201cWe challenge Burlington town leadership to take an active stand against hate under the guise of \u2018free expression.&#8217;\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">School officials are in panic mode over kids revolting against \u201cPride Day\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kids refused to wear colors and some even chanted that their pronouns are USA <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xuNBlMCrdq\">pic.twitter.com\/xuNBlMCrdq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EndWokeness\/status\/1668756274287357954?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 13, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While some parents were upset by the display, others said it was offensive for the school to urge children to wear rainbow-themed clothing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cSome of the kids threw the stickers on the ground. But I can only speak for my daughter, she just didn\u2019t want to wear that to school. It\u2019s not that she wanted to hurt anybody\u2019s feelings,\u201d Christine Steiner <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcvb.com\/article\/burlington-middle-school-pride-decorations-destroyed-protest\/44180426\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">told<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> WCBV.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Two days after the incident, which occurred on June 2, Burlington Public Schools Superintendent Eric Conti sent a <a href=\"https:\/\/s3.documentcloud.org\/documents\/23844114\/pride-msms-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter<\/a> to parents condemning the students who protested and noting that event participation was optional.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe recognize that intolerance can manifest in many different ways, and unfortunately our school community experienced intolerance during the school day on Friday. Students who participate in the Spectrum Club led a celebration of National Pride Month that included posters in support of identity pride, and other symbols of LGBTQ+ identity such as rainbow flags and clothing,\u201d Conti wrote.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some signs and posters in the school included messages like \u201cWhy it\u2019s not ok to say \u2018That\u2019s so gay,\u2019\u201d and \u201cHappy Pride Month.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI recognize that discussions and celebrations of individual identity are complex and impacted by individual values, religions, and cultural norms, the result of which may include expressions of racism, anti-religious hate, ableism, and in this case homophobia,\u201d Conti\u2019s letter continued.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He encouraged the community to take \u201ca stand against homophobia\u201d and said he would continue to make the school system a \u201cplace where anyone can feel safe and welcome.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Principal Cari Perchase also apologized to the parents and students, saying the Pride event turned into a \u201cday of intolerance.\u201d She added that the school would likely implement a program to teach students about tolerance and acceptance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Middle schoolers in Massachusetts were accused of \u201cintolerance and homophobia\u201d after they reportedly revolted against a Pride celebration at the school and chanted that their pronouns were \u201cUSA.\u201d Some students at Marshall Simonds Middle School in Burlington were accused of organizing a protest against a school-approved spirit day celebrating Pride Month, which encouraged students to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":1946821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[28599,4029,28598,28600,7088,6575,9096,4240,14541],"class_list":["post-1946819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-homophobia","tag-accused","tag-chanting","tag-decorations","tag-middle","tag-pride","tag-schoolers","tag-tearing","tag-usa"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946819","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\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1946819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1946821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1946819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1946819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1946819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}