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California Student Feels Left out Because of New District Policy About Flags

After a southern California school district voted to ban the display of any flag beside the American Flag and California State flag, one particular student is not happy about it. A 16-year-old high school junior in the Temecula Valley Unified School District has taken action on her own by handing out pride flags to students on campus. Supporters of the student have started a collection campaign for more flags, pins, booklets, and more for the student to hand out to fellow students on campus. 

After a 3-2 vote of approval on September 12th, the school board of trustees for the district put in place a policy that states the only flags that will be allowed to be displayed on district property would be the American Flag and the California State flag. An exception can be made only with the approval of the superintendent.

This is not the first controversy that has come out of this school district. Earlier this year, in May, the district voted to temporarily hold the approval of the curriculum of the 5th grade due to some books that included references to former San Francisco City Commissioner Harvey Milk, who was a noted gay-rights activist and known pedophile. 

[O]n May 16, when the Temecula Valley Unified School District (TVUSD) Board voted to put a pause on a portion of the recommended curriculum for kindergarten through 5th grade because one of the supplemental books referenced gay activist and San Francisco City Commissioner Harvey Milk, Newsom, who has been on a so-called anti-book banning spree, saw an opening. According to the East Bay Times, Board President Dr. Joseph Komrosky, as well as another board member, questioned the inclusion of a known pedophile in a curriculum for young children. A few weeks after that meeting, as the East Bay Times further reported, The California Department of Education opened an investigation of the TVUSD, without giving any credible reason for what necessitated it.

The investigation into the board's actions caused Governor Newsom, along with his Attorney General Rob Bonta, to fine the district $1.5 million as punishment. 

Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom followed through on his threats to fine the Temecula Valley Unified School District (TVUSD), launching his next culture war attack against conservative board members who rejected state-endorsed curriculum that allegedly mentions gay rights activist Harvey Milk.

"The three political activists on the school board have yet again proven they are more interested in breaking the law than doing their jobs of educating students — so the state will do their job for them," Newsom said Wednesday in a statement.

"California will ensure students in Temecula begin the school year with access to materials reviewed by parents and recommended by teachers across the district. After we deliver the textbooks into the hands of students and their parents, the state will deliver the bill — along with a $1.5 million fine — to the school board for its decision to willfully violate the law, subvert the will of parents, and force children to use an out-of-print textbook from 17 years ago." 

Now we have a student, probably with the help and or approval of the student's parents, directly violating the district's new policy by handing out the flags that represent a very small percentage of the students at the school. The student, identified as Moxxie, has been handing out flags and stickers to students as a form of protest and support for the LGBT community.  

“There’s always that risk of being unsafe when you’re part of a marginalized community like the LGBTQ community, especially when you’re so vocal about it,” he said. “The Pride flag, to me, symbolizes being allowed to be who you are, that sense of community.”

But Moxxie, along with the entire leftist movement, doesn't understand that the district is trying to keep politics and social justice agendas that are incredibly divisive out of the schools. More importantly, though, what makes Moxxie, or anyone else who identifies as LGBT so important or so special that they have to be able to fly or display their flags or other items? The answer is nothing. They are no more special than any other community, and they know it. 

The only reason why Moxxie and others feel so marginalized is because they do it to themselves. When a community of people, like the LGBT community, take a course of action like they are and make moves to shove their views in our faces, demand accommodations, special treatment, change rules to benefit only them, and require that we accept all of that or else; they tend to isolate themselves because eventually, people get tired of their crap. We are tired of being called radicals for objecting to teachers who force their ideology on their students,

People are tired of having to bend over backward for your movement and community as a whole. We get labeled as transphobes and all the other "phobe" words just because we ask why we need to do any of this or commit a "heinous crime" by wanting to keep books with porn and other sexual content out of schools. When we decide we are going to push back a bit and start to question why all the things they want are necessary, we are viewed as the oppressors. 

But it is the LGBT community that are the oppressors. They spread their agenda by forcing it down our throats. Any dissent from their own is met with instant and total banishment and more. Moxxie and her community force us to be complicit in their lies by demanding we call them by whatever pronoun they chose that day or referring to them as something they obviously are not. 

Nobody on the right is saying people like Moxxie don't exist, or that they are not deserving of respect or compassion. The problem is the LGBT community defines what is acceptable for compassion and respect, which means that anything short of affirmation and total acceptance of their identities and pronouns, or their agenda, means you're a transphobe at the very least. When they remove any option for questioning and demand blanket acceptance, they continue to make themselves a target for criticism and humiliation, which marginalizes them even more, 

The schools are the current battleground, and the left is hell-bent on destroying what schools should be. The LGBT community will stop at nothing to ensure students are force-fed their lies, which again marginalizes them even further. They do not understand that they are doing this to themselves. 

Our children are being exposed to a radical agenda that has no place in our schools. In California, for example, the state legislature is passing bills at a scary pace that either strip away parental rights, allow schools to take kids to see someone to begin, or learn more about transitioning, all without the parent's knowledge. Teachers and students are being forced in some schools to refer to trans staff or students by their preferred pronouns or face discipline. The transgender virus is not only attacking our kids, it's attacking our basic human rights guaranteed in our Constitution and Bill of Rights. The government cannot and shall not make any law or policy to abridge or eliminate one's 1st Amendment right to free speech. Nobody should be forced to be complicit in someone's personal lie. 

And when it comes to flags, why is it that the LGBT community is the only community of people that get their own recognition, AND they get their flags flown everywhere that liberal government controls? Schools, government buildings, the White House, and even some military installations and embassies around the world will fly their flag. But when you ask them to fly a flag that supports police, you're a Nazi sympathizer. Do the veterans get their recognition? Nope. Do firefighters? Nope. They won't even fly the BLM flag. The only flag that gets worshipped (by force) is the pride flag. 

And the main reason why the other flags aren't flown is they aren't asking for the recognition. They aren't using the power of government and social pressure to fly the POW/MIA Flag because they don't want the attention. The veteran community knows our worth and doesn't want special attention. I still feel uncomfortable when people thank me for my service on Veteran's Day. The only community that is demanding attention and worship is the LGBT community. 

I have news for them, they aren't special. They don't deserve to have their flags flown everywhere; they aren't marginalized or oppressed. It is far past time for them to learn their place in society: It isn't the front, but it isn't the back; it's right in the middle with everyone else.  

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