Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced a statewide ban on Pride flags in schools, declaring: \u201cThis is Texas, not TikTok.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And as long as I\u2019m Governor, the only flags we recognize are the American flag, the Texas flag,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and that oversized Dallas Cowboys banner Jerry Jones sent me last Christmas.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Classrooms must remove rainbow symbols, replacing them with \u201creal Texan symbols\u201d like oil rigs and Ronald Reagan portraits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Abbott also unveiled a \u201cWokeness Patrol\u201d to stop rainbow displays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIf a child draws a rainbow, they\u2019ll immediately hand them a Texas-themed coloring sheet,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Parents split sharply\u2014conservatives cheered while others called it political theater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One mom said, \u201cMy son just wanted to wear a rainbow pin to show support for his sister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now the school says\u2026 they\u2019ll replace it with a pin that says \u2018Howdy.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Teens staged walkouts, livestreaming protests with rainbow shoelaces and even an inflatable unicorn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As one student put it: \u201cIf they ban flags, fine. We\u2019ll just become the flags.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Abbott\u2019s Ban Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced a statewide ban on Pride flags in schools, declaring: \u201cThis is Texas, not TikTok. And as long as I\u2019m Governor, the only flags we recognize are the American flag, the Texas flag, and that oversized Dallas Cowboys banner Jerry Jones sent me last Christmas.\u201d The Policy Classrooms must…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6038,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6036\/revisions\/6038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}