GFPS Cancellation Of ‘Rainbow Day’ Makes National News
An article in the Great Falls Tribune about the Great Falls Public School District cancelling something called ‘Rainbow Day’ during ‘Inclusion Week’ has made national news.
The article, posted on the Tribune’s Facebook page today, Monday 3/28/22, was written by the Tribune education reporter, Alisha Jordan and has subsequently appeared as a feature on the national MSN internet news feed.
You can read the article here.
Included in the piece by Jordan is the following:
‘According to flyers sent home with students, March 1 was designated as Rainbow Day to “celebrate diversity.” Kids were encouraged to wear “Rainbow Colored clothes and celebrate inclusion of everyone.”
According to sources familiar with the incident and representatives from the LGBTQ Center, GFPS dropped Rainbow Day because parents had complained that it “pushed the gay agenda.” ‘
It’s not clear in the article or from the GFPS web site whether this action was taken by the school board or by the administration.
“According to sources familiar with the incident and representatives from the LGBTQ Center, GFPS dropped Rainbow Day because parents had complained that it “pushed the gay agenda.” ” They’re not wrong
It’s a breath of Fresh Air, to see that the GTFS School Board is acknowledging that; parents not only have their children’s best interests in mind, but also have the God given authority to apply these basic life principles to their lives!
This is the epitome of ignorance. There is no “Gay Agenda”. There is only a desire to be heard and for others to become educated. If parents are complaining about a group of kids wanting to wear colorful clothes to raise awareness and educate others about the LGBTQ+ community, then they need to get an education themselves. Good luck to the LGBTQ Center and their continued quest to raise awareness and educating others.
It’s not kids’ (or a school’s) job to “raise awareness” for a “community.”
Taxpayers don’t pay to “raise awareness” for a “community.”
It is the school’s job to provide a basic education. It is the family’s job to provide cultural education.
And various clubs and organizations that students are a part of are allowed to wear what they want and raise whatever awareness they please as protected by the first amendment. The district may have canceled it, but the kids sure as heck didn’t have to.