5th circuit grants qualified immunity to teach who put first grader in chokehold slate.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from slate.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Picture of the chalk art at Sartartia Middle School in Sugar Land, Texas – Photo: KPRC.
A Texas middle school teacher has been accused of defacing a chalk art mural featuring drawings of LGBTQ Pride flags and disrespecting the students who made the drawings.
According to a parent of one of the children involved in the incident, students at Sartartia Middle School, in Sugar Land, Texas, had been drawing on the courtyard sidewalk during their free period. Some of the chalk art included drawings of LGBTQ Pride flags.
The parent who asked her identity be kept anonymous told Houston-based NBC affiliate KPRC-TV her daughter and the other students were approached by a supervising teacher, who ordered them to erase the Pride flags. When the students refused, the parent says the teacher “threatened to pour a drink on the chalk art, and finally grabbed some peach-colored chalk and wrote ‘HETEROS RULE’ over the Pride flags.”