Hundreds of central Florida high school students will not receive their yearbooks until photos of them displaying rainbow flags and LGBT messages are covered up in each yearbook.
The photos were taken during a protest in opposition to a new Florida law prohibiting sex and gender instruction for young children.
The law, which was signed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, prohibits instruction related to sexual orientation or gender identity for students in third grade and below. Reprinting the roughly 600 yearbooks would cost at least $45,000, the yearbook's faculty adviser Danielle Pomeranz said.Students at Lyman have not taken kindly to the idea.
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