There are only two flags that belong in a public school classroom in the state of Colorado: the American flag and the Colorado state flag. The board’s insistence on rewriting policy to call a flag “government speech” is preposterous, unless it is actually a governmental flag, as in the aforementioned two examples.
Black Lives Matter is a movement, not a governmental organization. Their intended purpose is to improve Black lives. In reality, they only improved the money that their Marxist founders (Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi) and their family members received. Likewise, LGBTQIA+ is also a movement, not a governmental organization. The board cannot write a policy to declare what government speech is by using its own definition of government speech. Literally, nobody within BLM or the LGBTQIA+ community is duly elected to or appointed to these entities by any governmental entity. They join them freely, which is their right. It is not the board’s right to legitimize their presence in the public school classrooms of this community by redefining what they are.
The board is showing a callous disregard for all dissenting voices in this blatant attempt to indoctrinate its ideologies into the community’s public schools. Stating that we the people should “vote them out” displays a tyrannical disdain for the community’s opinion; the community that pays for some funds the school district receives each year.
The board’s role is to ensure the children receive a quality education, period.
Diana Snodgrass
Durango
