Dad Sues School District Over Pride Flag Under 'Don't Say Gay' Law
The father of a middle school student in Florida is suing the Palm Beach County school district because a teacher allegedly displayed LGBTQ+ Pride flags in the classroom.Frank Deliu says his 12-year-old son came home from Emerald Cove Middle School in Wellington last month with information that disturbed the father.
According to the boy, a teacher displayed an LGBTQ+ Pride flag in the classroom, and Deliu took offense, West Palm Beach area ABC affiliate WPBF reports.Wellington is 15 miles west of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach.The school moved Deliu’s son to an elective art class after Deliu complained, but he has yet to hear back about an investigation, he told the station.
So he filed suit on October 12.According to Deliu, since he filed his lawsuit, a second teacher has posted an LGBTQ+ Pride flag in a civics class, and he is amending the complaint to include that instance as well. “It is not the school’s function to propagandize my child with individual teachers’ beliefs because that’s the danger,” he told WPBF.“One teacher might be in favor of gay pride.
The next one might be against gay pride. Do we just have random symbols of what each teacher feels like putting up in terms of indoctrinating our children on social or political, or religious issues?
