California School Punishes First Grader for Saying Any Life Matters

One cannot help but harken back to literary folktale written by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor’s New Clothes. This is indeed the little child who said, “But he hasn’t got anything on.”

Pull your children out of government schools. They mean them harm.

A 7-year-old was punished by her school for including the phrase “any life” on a Black Lives Matter drawing she made, and her mother is now looking to take legal action.

Chelsea Boyle said her White daughter was confused about why she got in trouble for a picture depicting her diverse group of friends at Viejo Elementary School in Orange County, California. The picture included the Black Lives Matter slogan, with the phrase “any life” underneath, along with figures of different colors to represent their various races.

“My children see color as a color, as a description. I am trying to raise them the way the world should be, not the way it is. That’s how I’m trying to make my personal change,” Boyle said on the “Just Listen to Yourself” podcast, pointing out that her daughter’s best friend is a person of color but not Black “and she didn’t understand why she didn’t matter, why her friend didn’t matter.”

“It wasn’t ‘all lives matter,’ it was ‘any life,’” Boyle continued. “It was something she came up on her own. She just didn’t understand it. It was completely innocent, and that broke my heart.”

After one of her friends brought the picture home, a parent complained to the elementary school, and Boyle’s daughter was disciplined by having to sit out during recess and give a public apology on the playground.

Boyle said she was totally unaware of what happened to her daughter a year ago until another parent from the child’s class told her about it. (more here)

California School Punishes 7-Yr-Old Girl for Saying All Lives Matter

By: Warner Todd Huston, July 13, 2022:

An extreme, left-wing school in California has punished a seven-year-old girl because she dares to think that everyone’s life matters.

According to parent Chelsea Boyle, her daughter was attacked by school officials at Viejo Elementary in Mission Viejo, California, for drawing a picture in her first grade class upon which she wrote “any lives matter,” Kira Davis reports.

Boyle adds that the school severely punished and humiliated the girl in front of her classmates, but never told parents about the incident or punishment.

Per Davis:

According to Boyle, when the parents of Jane’s friend saw the drawing, they called the school to complain, deeming it offensive to their family. Viejo Elementary School principal Jesus Becerra then, allegedly, sought out Jane to question her about the drawing. Jane was forced to apologize to her friend for drawing the picture…but not privately. 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.

“My immediate reaction is just…I feel like I got hit by a bus, but I didn’t understand it. And I thought, oh, you know, my daughter has just been discriminated against,” the mother of the girl said……..

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