High school defends yearbook mocking Jesus and Charlie Kirk while promoting drag queen
A school culture that promotes deviant sexual behavior and violence as justifiable student free expression is a dangerous place for teenagers
At Derby High School in Kansas, the annual school yearbook features attacks on President Donald Trump, slain conservative leader Charlie Kirk, ICE agents and even people who love Jesus, along with a page with a junior student portraying himself as a drag queen.
The faculty adviser in charge of the yearbook said it was all okay because students came up with the content, according to Christian podcaster Todd Starnes, who credits Libs of Tik Tok for breaking the story.
The student in drag is wearing a leopard print top and black fishnet stockings. The yearbook includes a message that President Trump is the worst president in American history.
“It is shocking to learn that this totally inappropriate version of a yearbook is apparently entirely the idea of a bunch of high school teenagers,” said Melanie Kurdys, a board member of United States Parents Involved in Education and Michigan PIE president. Talk about inmates running the asylum.
Wouldn’t it be funny if it were actually an attempt by creative students to spoof the adults in their school with the most extreme expression of what they have been ‘taught’? Or it could be serious. Either way, a school culture that promotes deviant sexual behavior and violence as justifiable student free expression is a dangerous place for teenagers. Best get your kids out!
“Student editors are responsible for making content decisions, and student expression is protected within the parameters established by law,” a district spokesperson said. “The Kansas Student Publications Act broadly protects student journalists in the state’s public schools from censorship by school principals, administrators or school boards.”
Starnes observes that under a policy this broad, students could include anything.
“So, in a hypothetical situation, the district would be okay with the yearbook staff publishing a two-page spread on kids dressed in KKK outfits burning a cross? Would they be okay with a section mocking the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.?
“I strongly doubt that school leaders would tolerate such outrageous content, but they’ve got no problem when it comes to conservatives being assassinated,” Starnes said.
The double standard in government schools cannot be overestimated. In the name of freedom, they allow sexual deviancy and even cheer ideologically driven murder, while throttling anything remotely conservative. Parents, you are forewarned.
To hear from USPIE’s Founder and President, Sheri Few, tune in to the latest episode of USPIE’s podcast, “Unmasking Government Schools with Sheri Few,” on Tuesday, August 18, where Few is joined by Stacy Washington, nationally syndicated radio host (“Stacy on the Right”), author and political commentator. Listen to “Unmasking Government Schools with Sheri Few” on YouTube, Facebook, Spotify and X.