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By Diana Tiburcio It’s critical to call out injustice when we see it. As a resident of Passaic City and a former student in the Passaic Public School system, I am disheartened at the Passaic City Board of Education policy that denies LGBTQIA+ youth the right to raise the Pride flag outside their schools. Revised in November 2021, the school board’s flag policy only permits schools to raise the American, New Jersey, or Passaic School flag. The rationale behind the decision is that these flags represent the institutional values that the school should embody –– which, I argue, directly excludes t…