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Adults in a Burlington, Massachusetts, community are calling for “action” in response to middle school children tearing down Pride banners and chanting “U.S.A. are my pronouns.” The principal of the school reacted to the students’ choice of rebelling against pride month by saying, “When one individual or group of individuals’ beliefs and actions result in the demeaning of another individual or group, it is completely unacceptable.”
“The Burlington community is calling on town leaders to take action in the wake of a recent middle school incident during which students disrupted a Pride event,” reported Boston.com.
On June 2, students at Marshall Simonds Middle School reportedly disrupted the school’s so-called “spirit day” celebration for Pride Month, which was sponsored by the school’s Spectrum Club, an LGBT student group.
As part of the event, Spectrum Club had decorated the school with signs that read, “Happy Pride Month,” as well as posters with messages such as “Why it’s not ok to say ‘That’s so gay,'” according to a letter sent to parents from the school’s principal Cari Perchase, obtained by Boston.com.
They also put up rainbow streamers and Pride flag banners, and handed out rainbow stickers, as well as encouraged students and faculty to wear rainbow-colored clothing.
But some students reportedly reacted by tearing down the banners and signs, behavior that the Marshall Simonds Middle School principal referred to as “inappropriate.”
Other students chanted, “USA are my pronouns” in the hallways, and wore red, white, and blue clothing and face paint instead of the suggested rainbow-colored attire, the letter added. --->READ MORE HERE
The children at Marshall Simonds Middle School in Burlington, Massachusetts protested their school’s “Pride Day” by wearing red, white, and blue and chanting the meme “My pronouns are USA!”
The meme comes from a Daily Mail TikTok compilation mocking conservatives for making fun of pronouns with jokes such as “My pronouns are USA!” and “My pronouns are kiss my a**!”
Gen Z took the Daily Mail’s politically driven video and made it into a silly meme. Now, Gen Z is using it to protest Pride.
At Marshall Simonds, middle schoolers were asked to wear rainbows for “Pride Spirit Day.” They responded by tearing down Pride posters and stickers and wearing the colors of the American flag. According to a letter from the Burlington public school district, students intimidated their LGBT peers by chanting the popular meme.
School Superintendent Eric Conti addressed the incident in a letter: “I recognize that discussions and celebrations of individual identity are complex and impacted by individual values, religions, and cultural norms, the result of which may include expressions of racism, anti-religious hate, ableism, and in this case homophobia.”
In sum, if your beliefs and understandings of the world do not align with the religion of Pride, you are homophobic. Conti mentioned “discussions,” but it does not seem like there was a discussion when the school announced Pride Day.
LGBT students are free to express themselves however they want. They can wear rainbows and dress up as the opposite sex. They can meet in clubs and discuss their experiences. --->READ MORE HERE
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