This incident comes as parents of children at the elementary school are planning a boycott of an assembly that would include LGBTQ+ topics.
"LAUSD has announced that on June 2nd school wide from K-12 students will be taught about LGBTQ+ during an assembly,"read."Videos will be shown to the students including one where it says, 'some kids have 2 mommies, some have 2 daddies.' This has caused outrage among parents, many of them emailing/calling LAUSD high ups to complain about this day and protesting by not taking their children to school that day.
The post noted that the area has a large population of Armenian and Hispanic families who are Christian or share conservative values and allegedly do not consider this an appropriate lesson for children. A parent within the group protesting against the assembly told the Los Angeles Daily News that she does not believe any member of the group is responsible for the crime.
"None of us parents are aware of who the person might have been who set the flag on fire," the parent, only identified as Ana, said."None of us would jump the fence or set the flag on fire because we don't want to bring that negativity to the school where our children are."reached out to Saticoy Elementary School and the San Fernando Valley LGBTQ Center via email for comment.
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