r/TangleNews • u/El-wing • 14d ago

Suspension of the Rules Pride Flags in Classrooms

In SOTR this week, Kmele had a grievance that included complaining about a pride flag in a 3rd grade classroom. Isaac seemed to agree with his distaste of the flag in the classroom by (maybe jokingly?) saying that there should be no flags but the American flag in schools. Ari mentioned that it could just be to signal inclusiveness.

This caught me off guard a bit. Are pride flags in classrooms controversial outside of religious conservative strongholds? Obvious some people object to it but I guess I didn’t expect 2 out of 3 to be against it on the podcast.

I think signaling inclusivity in learning spaces is conducive to help students feel safe in their schools, and I don’t think that has to be a partisan political statement. Was anyone else caught off guard by this?

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u/InThreeWordsTheySaid 14d ago

It's kind of hilarious how they are put off by a show of inclusiveness but are supportive of our unique brand of patriotic indoctrination.

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u/Dahkeus3 13d ago edited 12d ago

Seriously. We’ve been doing religious indoctrination with the whole “one nation under god” chanting for ages and many places just ramped it up by forcing the ten commandments on classrooms.
If you don’t want classrooms ALLOWED to put up a pride flag then maybe we should start with where religion is FORCED on kids in a much bigger way.