A middle school teacher in southern Michigan resigned after he and other educators in his district were told to remove LGBTQ Pride flags they had up in their classrooms.
Teachers were told to take down the flags after Three Rivers Community Schools in Three Rivers, Michigan, received an “external challenge” about the symbols that had"reached the board level," according to an email obtained by NBC local affiliate WOOD-TV.
“The rumors kind of floating around was that there's one or two parents that complained about the flags being in the classroom,” Russell Ball, the teacher who resigned, said. Ball, who said he is part of the LGBTQ community, told WOOD-TV he is"disheartened and saddened" by the situation. “To me, the flag represents love and inclusion for everybody, not just whoever is of the LGBTQIA+ community,” he said. “The students losing that representation throughout the classrooms really hurt, losing my own representation in the classroom really hurt. It was just something I was not prepared to do.”“We continue to work with the district’s legal firm and board of education to ensure we are providing a safe learning environment for all students,” the statement read.
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