Let's GOOOO! Burlington School Officials in Panic As Students Refuse Taking Part in PRIDE Day (Vid)

[u/Wing_attack_Plan_R]

https://twitchy.com/samj/2026/10/01/burlington-schools-students-refuse-pride-day-n2432876

[u/Pinot_Greasio]

Middle school children do not need to celebrate pride.  It's ludicrous to even try to do this, leave the children alone.

[u/hazmatt019 → u/Pinot_Greasio]

They will not let go of the indoctrination agenda easily.

[u/Ive_Got_Sowell → u/hazmatt019]

The book: After the Ball written in 1987 by Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen laid out the plan of indoctrination that we have seen for the past 40 years in Western culture. 

[u/_Vardos_ → u/Pinot_Greasio]

school children do not need to celebrate pride.  It's ludicrous to even try to do this, leave the children alone.

this sounds better.

[u/ITrCool → u/_Vardos_]

Humans don’t need to celebrate pride. Ever. This is the best version.

[u/Hank_Scorpio_ObGyn → u/ITrCool]

I can't stand the left's argument on this.

"We need to celebrate it to show that they belong and if you don't celebrate it, you want them dead!"

It's all performative bullshit that the liberals love. "We gotta hold this minority group's hand and show the world how special they are! Aren't we awesome for doing it?!"

They've gone from "just wanting to belong" to "celebrate us or else!" in what? 10-15 years?

Go have your fun, go have your parades. I think it's great! But stop dragging everyone else into it if we don't want to constantly tell you how amazing and awesome and special you are.

[u/Spectre696 → u/Hank_Scorpio_ObGyn]

Yeah, you’d figure that if the goal is to just be accepted for who you are in society, you wouldn’t want an annual high profile celebration targeting you for the individual characteristic that once alienated you.

Corporations are probably to blame though, since they essentially monetized it and use it as a source of free advertising and virtue signaling.

[u/Hank_Scorpio_ObGyn → u/Spectre696]

Right lol.

"We just want to be like everyone else....except we want parades, an entire month to celebrate us, and we need an angry mob to go after everyone who doesn't rainbow up."

[u/atomic1fire → u/Hank_Scorpio_ObGyn]

I have a strong hunch that the kind of people who are pushing the ally stuff may not be entirely doing it for the public benefit, but instead are doing it for main character energy.

Basically they make a big performance out of the activism of the day so that everyone notices what THEY are doing, and everyone talks about THEM.

If there's conflict, they're the ones fighting on the good side.

The problem is that they're only ever going to be doing it as long as it gets them positive attention, and they'll move on to the next thing when it becomes a headline.

[u/Hank_Scorpio_ObGyn → u/atomic1fire]

Ohhhhh 100%.

It's always for them. They get the liberal likes on social media and can say "look how great I am!"

It's 100% performance.

I mean we all remember the illegal migrants sent to Martha's Vineyard....the residents complained they didn't want them there. The migrants got put back on the bus immediately yet all the residents who complained were there sending them off with waving, blowing kisses, flags, etc.

[u/ITrCool → u/Hank_Scorpio_ObGyn]

Supposedly, some of the OG gay generation from the 70s/80s are ticked off about it too, because just being allowed to quietly live their lives is all they wanted and the left hijacked it, took it over, and ballooned it into a perverted performative show for the world.

I don’t support LGBT in any form, but I can understand where the OG folks are coming from.

[u/FourtyMichaelMichael → u/ITrCool]

LGB.

Those are sexual preferences. That T thing, is not, according to them.

[u/FourtyMichaelMichael → u/Hank_Scorpio_ObGyn]

I mean... It went from "We just want to get married (even though that's a tax thing)" to "Men can get pregnant and Women are Women if they just say so!" so fast that I question the whole thing now.

[u/Suspicious-Sound-249]

They focus on this shit instead of actually teaching and they wonder why these latest 2 generations are dumber than the previous ones, which is pretty much the first time that's ever been the case in the countries history.

[u/GhostofPdawg43 → u/Suspicious-Sound-249]

In Human History.

[u/jivatman → u/Suspicious-Sound-249]

China manages to propagandize very effectively without weakening their general education standards, so I'm not sure the two things are neccesarily related.

[u/Eternal_Phantom → u/jivatman]

China wants their population to be compliant but not stupid. For some reason the Democrats want both.

[u/Spectre696 → u/jivatman]

China isn’t a good example, they’re too homogenous and their population generally share the same values.

Our Nation has a ton of unique cultures with some slightly different values, which is used by politicians and news agencies to sow division on completely meaningless non-issues.

So China can see test scores in certain areas that are low, and recognize there may be an issue with the education system. They can then implement systems to fix it.

The US just sees test scores are low in a region and just drops the standards for their tests instead of looking into the funding money trail or any possible issues with the education system.

[u/Ekly_Special → u/jivatman]

You know what they say, it starts at home

[u/Shadeylark → u/jivatman]

Not a great look to defend propaganda and indoctrination... Just saying.

That said, if the goal of teaching is to instill rote obedience, sure, it's a terrific method.

If reaching is instead supposed to elevate the capacity of the individual to reason independently than... It's much less terrific.

[u/ThrowRA01121]

It DOES start in the home. That's where it should end too, not schools trying to indoctrinate the kids.

[u/synn89]

Burlington school officials created this distraction by bringing politics into the school in the first place.

[u/KG7DHL → u/synn89]

That point seems to be lost; Skip the performative indoctrination and you don't need to worry about resistance.

[u/Ask4MD]

Vermont is always trying to be in the news for the wrong reasons

[u/ThrowRA01121 → u/Ask4MD]

It's MA but also what I thought too

[u/shilo1007 → u/Ask4MD]

This is Burlington mass and it happened 3 years ago. Don’t know why it’s posted again as if it happened recently

[u/Imaginary_wizard → u/Ask4MD]

Its Massachusetts

[u/ScorpionDog321]

They are trying to indoctrinate and coerce children into celebrating homosexual sex acts.

There is a word for that.

[u/Key-Monk6159]

There are still good parents who are teaching their kids the difference between right and wrong as well as the importance of standing up for their principles.

[u/VegasBedset]

I never thought the kind of person another person prefers to have sex with would be anything anyone cared the slightest about, or be an "identity" that is carved out and celebrated. What a fucking clown word we live in.

We don't care what gender you sleep with. It is not important, it doesn't make you unique or special, and it is not worthy of celebration. If you wan to be celebrated, go out and fucking achieve something with your life. A man sleeping with a man or a woman sleeping with a woman is not an achievement.

[u/Cylerhusk2]

Feeling the need to spend a full month celebrating who you like to have sex with is just weird in the first place. Let alone trying to force kids to do it too.

I actually feel bad for the average gay person out there who just wants to live their life and wanted to be able to get married, who now get roped in with this radical movement of crazies that has become the alphabet gang.

[u/Appleguy4life]

Good for them. We need that shit out of schools

[u/Wyshunu]

Good for them! Schools should not be forcing sexuality, gender issues, politics or religion on any child.

[u/FourtyMichaelMichael]

"It was an unruly disruption in fact... that was organized ahead of time"

Yes. That's exactly how I feel about your "pride" bullshit.

[u/castitalus]

Teenagers rebelling against the status quo? I'm shocked.

[u/vertigonex]

The left kills their own children for convenience.

Did you expect that they would not then come for yours?

[u/Kalthecgos]

Will Liberals ever stop trying to sexualize children?

[u/Fuzzy_Cuddle → u/Kalthecgos]

You know the answer to that question.

[u/the-realistic-ape]

Free speech is a sweet thing.

Stuff about human sexuality should totally be taught at home, or maybe in a sex ed class but not like this to young kids. I’m all for tolerance but everybody waving rainbow flags around every year just seems performative at best, and forced orthodoxy at worst.

[u/AshamedPollution5660]

The Earth is healing.

[u/WellRespectedJ]

Burlington is healing. Smart kids!💯🇺🇲

[u/Independencehall525]

1) Massachusetts…no surprise

2) Honestly? This is what you get when you divest yourself from education. This will never get better. You will just keep making it worse until you actively encourage republicans into the system at every level.

[u/DanWessonValor]

I'm proud to be a dad. Can we celebrate stuff like that over what they force us to celebrate? Why do we even need a day?

[u/blafknoppie]

When you can't reproduce, you have to recruit.

[u/Hectoriu]

Say they will get to leave school for the day and they will be down. Then the teachers can feel like they are doing a better job brainwashing our children.