Virginia’s bare-breasted state flag, and a lesson about the Commonwealth of Virginia, has been banned for some students in a Texas school district.
The big picture: Lamar CISD, a school district around 30 minutes from Houston, last fall removed a section about Virginia from its online learning platform used by 3rd-5th graders, Texas Freedom to Read Project co-director Anne Russey tells Axios.
The reason: The bare breast on Virginia’s flag, a picture of which was included in the lesson, violated the district’s recently adopted ban on any “visual depictions or illustrations of frontal nudity” in elementary school library material.
That’s according to what the Lamar district confirmed to Russey in a Freedom of Information Act request.
The district did not respond to Axios’ request for more information.