• The school’s board, which didn’t immediately say, “Oh, good Lord, let’s apologize to B.B. and her family for this nonense, and by the way, you’re fired, Mr. Beccara.
• The other parents in the school, who didn’t line up in support of the unjustly punished child. They probably were afraid of being called racists if they weren’t knee-jerk Black Lives Matter race-baiters themselves.
• The lawyers who didn’t tell the school, “Just apologize and get out. This is a bad case, you are in the wrong, and you will eventually lose while we make money.”
• The State of California, which has nurtured such an insanely woke and widiculous culture that this kind of thing could happen.
• Progressives and the Democratic Party, which have made the culture of the Golden State clinically insane, so much so that it isn’t safe for six-year-olds.

I hate this story. I can’t hold back any more: my head has to explode now:

And now..the rest of the story.

Last week, B.B. and her family won a major free speech victory before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Judge Carter has apparently forgotten that in 1969, the Supreme Court famously declared that students do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.”

The Ninth Circuit decided that the age of the student did not remove basic First Amendment rights, like the right to state that the racist “Black Lives Matter” cant seemed to be leaving out something. A three judge panel ruled that just being in elementary school does not mean that B.B. had no meaningful free speech rights. A school “may restrict students’ speech only when the restriction is reasonably necessary to protect the safety and well-being of its students,” the Court decided.

Now B.B. have a chance to prove to a less addled judge “that giving a friend a picture celebrating all lives is not a threat to “the safety and well-being” of the entire Viejo Elementary School,” in the words of a disgusted Prof. Turley. He adds that “the school has taught its students an invaluable lesson: They have the right to speak and should never allow others to silence them arbitrarily. This first-grader prevailed over administrators, teachers, lawyers, and a federal judge who saw little “downside” in censoring her.”

But the case signifies more than that. The school’s behavior exemplified how the progressive-dominated public school system views political indoctrination as a crucial goal. “The nail that stands out must be hammered down,” as the old proverb states. This school and its woke principal, plus the the black student’s mother who demanded the “hammering down” of B.B. wanted to make sure that a first-grader learned her lesson, the lesson being never to deviate from the Left’s ideological lockstep.

Sadly, she may have learned that lesson anyway.