Judge gets ‘Millstone Award’ for allowing school to punish a child for writing ‘any life’ below Black Lives Matter sketch

United States Parents Involved in Education (USPIE.org) has given its August “Millstone Award” to U.S. Central District Court Judge David O. Carter for rejecting a lawsuit filed on behalf of a California elementary school girl who was punished for writing “any life” below a Black Lives Matter sketch she had made in 2021.

USPIE’s “Millstone of the Month” award is given to the person or persons who have committed the most egregious acts against children in government schools.

“The picture showed the words ‘Black Lives Mater’ [sic] with four round shapes in various different tones of brown, beige and yellow intended to represent her and her friends,” Fox News reported, citing the complaint filed against the Capistrano Unified School District on the girl’s behalf by Pacific Legal Foundation.

“Chelsea Boyle's first-grade daughter, known as B.B. in legal filings, was punished by her teachers and principal at Viejo Elementary School in 2021.

“B.B., who was seven at the time of the incident, testified in court that she gave the drawing to her friend to make her feel comfortable after her class learned about Martin Luther King Jr, according to the suit,” Fox reported.

According to her mother, she brought the sketch to her friend as a sign of friendship and tolerance. The friend’s mother took it a different way, called the school, and the girl was punished.

“This poor first-grader was banned from drawing, forced to make a public apology and barred from recess for two weeks as if she were a delinquent,” says Sheri Few, founder and president of USPIE. “This judge apparently thinks the First Amendment applies only to leftist groups like BLM.”

“The judge qualifies for our August ‘Millstone of the Month’ because he refused to right this wrong against this child, citing her age as an excuse not to invoke her First Amendment rights,” Few says. “This incident is another example of the Left’s indoctrination into government schools, resulting in a child being punished for something that is not wrong, but only wrong in the eyes of the Left.

“In addition to all that, it’s clear that the girl was acting with the best of motives. Even the judge acknowledged that ‘B.B.’s intentions were innocent.’ But he obviously wanted to make an example out of her.”

Boyle told Fox News that, “It was heartbreaking, really, to realize that this is what schools and children are subjected to and what it's come to.”

“Reform of government schools is going to take enormous effort and a lot of time,” Few says. “Meanwhile, keep your children safe — get them out of government schools.”

United States Parents Involved in Education (USPIE) is a nonprofit, nationwide coalition that seeks to return education to its proper local roots and restore parental authority over their children’s education by helping parents and local communities to escape federal and other national influences. It is the vision of USPIE to create a culture where parents, empowered with the authority to choose what and how their children learn, are the undisputed primary educators of their children, where local schools operate in support of families, and where education is unencumbered by federal mandates.

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