School district may ban Pride flags after parent spots one inside a classroom & freaks out

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The Bluffton-Harrison Metropolitan School District of Indiana is considering a ban on rainbow Pride flags after a parent freaked out over one being displayed in an 8th-grade classroom.

A parent contacted the school district to alert them about the “controversial material” being displayed in a middle school classroom, District Superintendent Dr. Brad Yates wrote in a note to families.

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The parent claimed they were worried that the flag would be “a trigger for student disciplinary issues,” as if merely seeing a rainbow flag would cause students to misbehave.

Yates informed families that the district is now consulting with legal counsel over the matter. The school board is also holding a special meeting on Tuesday to help develop “a school policy to outline parameters for controversial topics displayed in our classrooms throughout our district.” The district said it hadn’t considered the topic until the parent spoke out.

However, the local LGBTQ organization, Fort Wayne Pride, spoke out…

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