Jason Rantz writes that a middle school in Marysville, Washington, has forced a teacher to remove a Blue Lives Matter flag from her classroom while both BLM and LGBT flags and signs are allowed. This from therightscoop.com.
MYNORTHWEST – A local school district forced a middle school teacher to remove a pro-police flag from her classroom wall. But the district allows Black Lives Matter and LGBT messages to be displayed.
The teacher at Marysville Middle School posted a Thin Blue Line flag in her classroom. It was meant to support the police. But according to documents obtained by the Jason Rantz Show on KTTH, the district’s human resources said the flag is a “political symbol” that could elicit a “disruption” in the classroom. She was ordered to take it down.
But why are BLM and LGBT displays allowed to stay up? While the district refuses to answer, the teacher’s brother says school staff indicated anti-police sentiment informed the decision.
The teacher is supportive of law enforcement. Her brother, Chris Sutherland, is a former officer with the Marysville Police Department. He was also a school resource officer during the deadly Marysville Pilchuck High School shooting.
The teacher first placed a Thin Blue Line sticker on her laptop to honor her brother and other law enforcement officers. The image is a symbol of support for the work of police officers to keep communities safe.
At the time, an assistant principal objected to the sticker.
According to an HR document on the incident, she alerted the teacher to “concerns about how students, families, and community members might interpret what the image is intending to communicate, and that this interpretation may cause a disruption to the learning environment.”
But the teacher says the objections were soon dropped.
Shortly after, the HR document says the teacher displayed a Thin Blue Line flag on her classroom’s bulletin board. She posted photos of her brother around the flag. Then, a second assistant principal ordered her to take the flag down.
“They told her that it’s controversial to have that flag up. That it makes kids and staff feel unsafe, which to me, that does not make sense at all,” Sutherland explained on the Jason Rantz Show on KTTH.
Supporting police with a Blue Lives Matter flag IS NOT political. These men and women risk their lives for us every day they put on their uniforms. All clear-headed thinkers understand this, yes?
In fact, I venture to say that demanding the removal of the Blue Lives Matter flag IS a political statement.
This is how bassackwards our country has become.
The police and other first responders are the ones putting their lives on the line to keep us safe, and all Americans should fully support them. Our young should be taught this. They shouldn’t be taught to disrespect the police.
Displaying a Blue Lives Matter flag is seen as ‘political’ or ‘offensive’ only by those who hate police, who want to see police officers replaced with social workers and psychiatrists.
And if a community is going to ban the Blue Lives Matter flag, then that community must do the same with the BLM flag, which is inherently political. But those charged with making these decisions are fearful of the retaliation this will unfold.
Instead of educating the rabble-rousers who feign offense, administrators and educators would rather pretend that BLMers are victims with legitimate grievances. They then wrongly cater to their every offense.
Is this not all part of bringing about the demise of America? At what point will this become obvious to We the People? At what point will taking back our country become a common theme?
I paraphrase what is quoted above: Our country has been turned bassackwards.
And I ask, Which of our past presidents might have initiated this problematic “hope and change” nonsense?
And I also ask, How much longer will conservative patriot deplorables tolerate this wrong-headed destructiveness?
