Idaho Lawmaker Pushes To Remove Woke Flags And Banners From Schools Statewide

While teachers focused on actually educating children in generations past, today’s crop of pedagogues seems more interested in proving how socially active and politically correct they are.

That’s why there have been countless anecdotes in recent years about teachers and administrators subjecting the next generation to all sorts of objectionable content.

🚨I want from you to be Honest for this Question:

Do you agree that BLM and Pride Flags should be banned from classrooms?

YES or NO? pic.twitter.com/KMeHP0zATM

— JD Vance News (@JDVanceNewsX) December 4, 2024

Race- and gender-based activism became the norm in some classrooms, but a GOP Idaho lawmaker wants to do something about it in his state.

According to TheBlaze:

State Rep. Edward Hill (R) earlier this week introduced House Bill 10, which would limit the kinds of flags and banners that would be allowed in public elementary and secondary schools.

The bill pertains to the display of such material on school property as a whole and would ban flags or banners “that represent a political viewpoint.”

The list of flags or banners includes but is not limited to material relating to a political party, race, gender, or a “political ideology.”

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At the same time, an extensive list of what could be flown or displayed was also provided in the bill.

The American flag, the official state flag of Idaho, and the flags of any county, municipality, public university or community college, school district, special district, or “any other political subdivision” would be allowed.

School flags (including mascots and school colors), official flags of any military branches or units, and official flags of Indian tribes were also included.

Schools would also be allowed to display banners recognized by the Idaho Department of Education in relation to achievements.

Other state flags could also be flown, but so could the flags of other “recognized foreign nations.”

Hill’s proposal has attracted some social media attention:

BREAKING: Idaho State Rep Ted Hill introduced a bill which would ban pride flags from classrooms. pic.twitter.com/N8MgSkYe54

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 16, 2025

A bill in Idaho (HB 10) has just been introduced to ban pride flags from public school classrooms.

GOOD. https://t.co/ogqDukkdv4

— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) January 15, 2025

A similar bill was introduced last year in the Idaho Senate but failed to advance past the House Education Committee, per the Idaho Statesman:

Debate over last year’s bill largely centered around LGBTQ+ Pride flags. Sponsor Sen. Chris Trakel, R-Caldwell, who lost his reelection bid, told lawmakers that his daughter’s religious beliefs made her “extremely uncomfortable” with such flags.

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“Somebody could take offense to the LGBTQ flag, and they might. Somebody of a religious origin would find that offensive to them and they have to sit in the classroom and be offended the entire time,” he told a Senate committee last year, according to prior Idaho Statesman reporting. “The whole point of this isn’t to discriminate against anybody. (It) is to make this a neutral environment conducive to education and learning.”

Here’s a clip from the hearing during which Hill introduced his bill:

Idaho State Rep Ted Hill on his bill that would ban Pride flags from classrooms:

“That [American Flag] represents the institutions- it protects the liberty and justice for all. These other flags [Pride/political flags] do not.” pic.twitter.com/JdiirjfERZ

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 16, 2025