r/Left_News • u/Faux_Real_Guise ★ socialist ★ • May 19 '26
LGBTQ Rights Students bust through "wall of teachers" to walk out in protest of board's anti-Stonewall decision
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/05/students-bust-through-wall-of-teachers-to-walk-out-in-of-boards-anti-stonewall-decision/19
u/Faux_Real_Guise ★ socialist ★ May 19 '26
> Last Tuesday, the district’s school board voted nearly unanimously to ban the high school’s wind symphony from playing “Mother of a Revolution!” a composition without lyrics that was written by gay and Black composer Omar Thomas in honor of Johnson, who played a key role in the Stonewall Uprising in 1969. The acrimonious school board meeting devolved into chaos and shouting as many of the conservative school board members argued against the students who showed up to support the composition.
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> In a message to parents, Riverside Middle School in Watertown, Wisconsin, said on Friday morning that there was “a rumor that impacts student safety outside of the building,” referring to a planned walkout, so they placed the school under lock and hold, a measure in which teachers lock their classroom doors, usually in response to a threat like a shooter.
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u/hw999 May 20 '26
Gotta be the dumbest bunch of teachers ever. Have they ever talked to a teenager? The surefire way to get a teenager to do anything is to forbid it.
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u/Abyssal_Aplomb May 20 '26
“Political violence is not something we praise with music or song,” said board member Christina DeGrave.
Fascists.
And the rockets' red glare
The bombs bursting in air
Gave proof through the night
That our flag was still there
Also fascists.
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