Friend of the Babylon Bee and writer at RedState, Kira Davis, broke this story about a first-grade student in California who was publicly humiliated in front of the school for "defacing" a black lives matter coloring page by writing "any lives" on it.
First graders are six and seven years old by the way.
Chelsea Boyle's daughter, "Jane" (we have changed the name to protect the privacy of the student) was a first-grader at Viejo Elementary School in Mission Viejo, CA, an Orange County suburb nestled about halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego. At the time of the incident, Black Lives Matter rhetoric could be seen and heard everywhere, from the news to professional sports and even in the classroom. Jane, who is white, decided to draw a picture of her friends, who spanned the racial diaspora at the diverse elementary school that offers a unique "two-way language immersion" program in Spanish/English.
The picture was meant to represent her closest friends of all different races, and in her uneven, first-grader scrawl, she wrote "Black Lives mater [sic]" at the top, followed by another sentiment, "any life." The picture went home with one of Jane's friends.
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This little girl wanted to simply say that she loved ALL of her friends, regardless of race.
But in the 2020s that sentiment is, you guessed it, racist!
At least, according to the woke teachers and administrators at your child's woke elementary school.
The wokesters weren't satisfied to chastise the girl, they publicly humiliated the small child.
Jane had to deliver the apology on the playground in front of her fellow students and school staff. On top of the apology, Jane was "benched" as punishment, meaning she had her recess time revoked and was forced to sit on a bench while her classmates played during their free time.
In an even more infuriating turn of events, Boyle says she wasn't notified of the incident by school officials. It was not until nearly a year later, in March of 2022, that she heard about the issue from someone who was a mutual friend of both Boyle and the offended family. All of this had happened without her knowledge, even though Boyle was heavily involved in school activities and volunteered hundreds of hours in the classroom and for school events. She had been kept in the dark, and Jane, not fully understanding what had happened or what she had done wrong, had kept the incident to herself.
The school made her stand up and apologize in front of the entire class.
This is beyond wrong. It's evil.
The family was, of course, shocked. And the girl still has no idea what she did "wrong."
And now the family is fighting back.
Haberbush [family's lawyer] says this is more than a case of one wronged child and her angry mother. It could set a legal precedent for other parents dealing with similar things, creating a legal ripple effect that could have drastic consequences for overreaching public school administrators and districts when it comes to compelled speech. And that is exactly how Haberbush identifies this case…one of compelled speech, which would place the burden of proof on Becerra and the school.
"It's a compelled speech issue; obviously compelled speech is one of the toughest tests that they have to meet, if they want to say that this is valid, "we can do it." We believe that there is no way that they can meet that standard and we believe this is an egregious deprivation of her rights and that Chelsea should be vindicated."
That's exactly right. She was compelled to agree with "black lives matter" and denounce her "racist" any lives statement. Then she was forced to recite an apology publicly.
What is wrong with this country that ANY teacher or school would do something like this to a child?
And if you think this is limited to California, you've got another thing coming.
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