“He went further to question the intentions of our protest, asking if pride flags were relevant to opposition to the bill,” Petocz told the newspaper. Petocz said his principal pulled him aside beforehand, and said he wasn’t allowed to give out the flags. He told the News-Journal he was suspended for handing out pride flags to students at his school ahead of the protest. Jack Petocz, a junior at Flagler Palm Coast High School in Palm Coast, helped organize walkouts for a number of schools. On Thursday, thousands of students across Florida walked out of classrooms to protest the legislation. The bill has drawn backlash from LGBTQ advocates who say it will hurt LGBT youth, who already experience higher rates of bullying, by ignoring the issues they face. Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill ‘hateful,’ Biden says
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