“It doesn’t matter if it’s Black Lives Matter, they’re also promoting transgender and LGBT to our students,” Thompson told the Fort Myers News-Press. ![]() The district said that it couldn’t force the teacher to take it down but that the teacher agreed to cover up the “Black Lives Matter” part of it but not the two Pride hearts since the Stop WOKE Act doesn’t say anything about Pride symbols. ![]() Thompson said that he learned about the flag in December when someone sent him a picture of it, so he asked the school district to take it down. The law bans any attempt to “indoctrinate or persuade” students in principles that are not “consistent with specified principles of individual freedom” and also bans any instruction that says that people are responsible for past actions due to their “race, sex, or national origin.” Thompson said that the Black Lives Matter message and the two Pride flags violate the law. ![]() The Republican organization says that the flag violates the state’s Stop WOKE Act, a law that was passed to ban “critical race theory” in Florida Schools and which has had a devastating impact on teachers’ ability to discuss Black history.
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