Pride flags and Black Lives Matter displays will no longer be allowed in Kettle Moraine School District in Wisconsin thanks to a vote by the local school board. The vote bans any displays that can be considered political messaging, the Washington Examiner reported.
Kettle Moraine is located in Waukesha, Wisconsin, where Darrell E. Brooks, a black man, drove a car into a crowd of predominantly white people in 2021 at the city’s annual Christmas parade. Brooks killed six people and injured 62 others. Many considered Brooks’s action a hate crime, given his history of calling for violence against white people and his choice of a white, suburban area for his alleged attack.
School district Superintendent Stephen Plum said the vote supported the district’s existing code of conduct to keep political messaging out of Kettle Moraine classrooms. The ban extends to all displays that could be deemed political — not only BLM and Pride flags but also “We Back the Badge” signs and religious displays.
“Teachers and administration will not have political flags or religious messaging in their classroom or on their person,” Plum said, according to FOX 6 Milwaukee.
Additionally, no school district employee is permitted to include preferred pronouns in emails. While many on the Left (including the ACLU) claim the restrictions are a violation, the board voted almost unanimously in favor of the limits, with only a single “no” vote.
Kettle Moraine School District should be an example of how public schools everywhere should treat political causes. Teachers are entitled to their beliefs, but their position does not entitle them to proselytize impressionable children on the taxpayers’ time and dime. There is no right to brainwash students. Whether the ideology is left-wing or right-wing, conservative or liberal, Democratic or Republican, it should all remain outside of schools. A school’s job is to educate, not to indoctrinate.
