A Florida highschool scholar has been suspended indefinitely after handing out pleasure flags throughout a walkout to protest the state’s so-called “Don’t Say Homosexual” invoice.
Flagler Palm Coast Prime College junior Jack Petocz helped arrange a statewide walkout on Thursday to protest Area Invoice 1557, a massively arguable measure that may limit college instruction on sexual orientation and gender identification in kindergarten thru 3rd grade.
About 500 scholars at his Palm Coast college participated in Thursday’s walkout, chanting, “Say homosexual!” Petocz passed out 200 pleasure flags he stated he bought along with his personal cash. Scholars have been given simply quarter-hour to protest.
Petocz instructed the Daytona Seashore Information-Magazine he used to be known as into the primary’s workplace after the protest, “instructed I used to be disrespectful and overtly advocating in opposition to workforce.”
“They suspended me from campus till additional understand. I knowledgeable the primary I wasn’t going to talk with him and used to be going to speak to a attorney,” Petocz added.
He stated an hour sooner than the protest, the primary pulled him apart and in particular complained concerning the flags. “He instructed me I wouldn’t be allowed to [distribute the flags]. He went additional to query the intentions of our protest, asking if pleasure flags have been related to opposition to the invoice.”
A spokesperson for the Flagler college district insisted in a commentary to the Daytona newspaper that Petocz had no longer been suspended however have been “put on excused administrative depart” whilst college officers examine.
Petocz stated he would do it once more. “I could have been suspended, however I will be able to no longer be silenced. I’m pleased with who I’m, and I’m #notafraidtosaygay,” he stated in a Twitter commentary.
One of the most other people responding to Petocz’s commentary used to be Florida anti-gun activist David Hogg, who survived the 2018 mass taking pictures at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas Prime College that killed 17 other people and injured 17.
He reminded everybody that scholars in Florida are “no longer placing up with [Gov. Ron] DeSantis’s homophobic bull shit.”