Temecula Valley Unified Bans Unofficial Flags Outraging Victimhood Filled Activists

The Temecula Valley Unified School District made headlines yet again. Not long ago, the board voted on a policy regarding flags that fly in their schools. No flag other than the American flag or the California state flag may be posted in any district campus unless permission is granted by the superintendent.

Earlier this year, the same school board voted against using a particular textbook in their classrooms that lauded Harvey Milk, the assassinated gay politician who was alleged to have had improper relationships with minor-aged boys. Governor Newsom called the school board “extremists”, and others attacked the move as homophobic. With that ridiculous label firmly emblazoned on Twitter and in the news, this recent policy has ruffled the same feathers.

The official policy states:

“No flag other than the United States of America and State of California may be displayed on school grounds, including classrooms, unless it is a country, state, or United States military flag used solely for educational purposes within the adopted curriculum. Any other flag must be approved by the Superintendent or designee prior to displaying if, and only if, it is used for educational purposes and only during the related instructional period.”

Despite the fact that the policy does not ban any specific flag by name, the petulant activists are crying discrimination. One Murrieta resident said of the decision, “I feel like it removes self-expression, and any sort of ability for teachers to say, ‘Hey, you’re welcome here, and we do support you, and we love you, and we want you here.’”

This resident seems to think that self-expression is the reason teachers are employed. Is self-expression helping teach reading, writing, and arithmetic to already woefully underperforming students? Furthermore, is self-expression a luxury and privilege only afforded to those in the LGBT community?

Many in the LGBT community see themselves as perpetual victims, and any policy that they do not like or approve of is automatically assumed to be a personal attack. The self-centered idea that the sole purpose and modus operandi of conservatives is to hate and target them is delusion of the highest order. They do not see the other side and how this policy also affects others.

A Catholic teacher would not be allowed to post the Archdiocese of Los Angeles flag in their classroom. A Republican teacher would not be allowed to fly a Make America Great Again flag. Both of these forms of self-expression are banned under the policy, presumably much to the delight of the vocal activists. And frankly, none of these flags and politically charged paraphernalia of either side should be allowed in classrooms. They provide nothing to support the purpose of the children being there.

To the argument that a Pride flag denotes a place of welcome for LGBT students, there are other ways to promote the same idea. In the 1990s, the Safe Space program was developed, and the emblem for a participating space was an inverted pink triangle. It has no official political affiliation; it simply shows a student where they are welcome to express themselves freely. That program seems to have been abandoned for the more overt political indoctrination, bordering on grooming, of children.

In the bigger picture, the amount of deference and outright reverence that some in the LGBT community give to the Pride flag is alarming. What used to be a simple rainbow flag has morphed into a hideous monstrosity with the trans chevron and intersex logo. What once was a symbol of equality is now a dogmatic symbol of tyranny and indoctrination that people follow as a religion. When Huntington Beach, California, banned the display of any auxiliary flags, activists acted as though it were an act of genocide.

At the time, the Los Angeles LGBT Center said in a statement, “The Greater Los Angeles area is for everyone and yet Huntington Beach officials landed on a cliche and reductive approach to making headlines: marginalizing queer Californians (and potentially, millions of tourists) in one fell swoop.” The statement further claimed, “For a city that prides itself on exercising its rights, it’s abhorrently inexcusable to infringe upon the First Amendment rights of the LGBTQ tax-payers; they’re sending us a clear message of hate and shamelessly putting young, queer lives at stake. Huntington Beach’s officials are taking a cue from the political playbooks of extremist politicians across the country — using their hatred of queer and trans people as launching pads for their careers.”

The people of Temecula Valley voted for these new school board representatives who ran on the promise of having the voices of parents heard in the school system. They are delivering on their promise, and the activists and leftist media are not happy about it. For people who rave about the power and importance of democracy, they seem to want to undermine it when it goes against their agenda.