Tensions rose at the first San Ramon Valley Unified School District Board of Education meeting of the 2023-24 school year on Tuesday as members of the public debated the display of Pride flags on school campuses.
Before the meeting, people filled the meeting space and spilled out into the hallway and filled the lobby of the small building in Danville on Old Orchard Drive. Occasionally, murmurs, chatter and cheering would make their way from the hallway into the meeting room.
In a scene that has played out in school board meetings across the country, the room was split between those who approved of the board's efforts toward diversity and inclusion, and residents who felt the measures were an overreach by the district. Occasionally, visibly frustrated board members would rein in the crowd or ask speakers to limit their comments to items on the agenda.
Terry Thompson, who said two of his children attended SRVUSD schools, objected to the celebration of Pride month, saying it was the district's duty to teach students basic reading, writing and arithmetic, rather than promoting"pornography, wokeness and LGBT ideology," which he said children should be shielded from.
Bob Allen, a math teacher at California High School, said that SRVUSD was the first school district he has worked for where he feels comfortable being an openly gay man and praised the board for their commitment to diversity and inclusion.
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