I work at a 3rd-6th public school in MA. I wore this hat to celebrate Pride month and last week of school. I am known for my 25 days of holiday hats I wear around the winter holidays. I do mostly Santa hats but also make sure to include secular hats/Hanuikka hats. No one has a problem with it and the kids LOVE it because the hats get progressively more outrageous the closer it gets to break.
So yesterday I get in the door and My Lead says "Do you have to wear that hat?" I replied "What? Its a rainbow hat for pride month?" And shrugged. Then my most vocal and conservative coworker came in and told me that "my hat is inappropriate". I replied that d"iversity, tolerance, and inclusion is ALWAYS appropriate". She came back with " if it was just a rainbow hat but with the Pride sticker on there its not ok. You want tolerance and repect but you aren't respected the other side. You know I dont believe in that and in front of the kids, its bad enough in front of us knowing we don't believe in that." So I asked her if she wanted to bring it to HR. She said no and i offered to turn my hat around. Then My called HR who told her that my hat is fine. Lol.
The kicker is the coworker was wearing a Black Flag hat!
edit Black American Flag hat worn by conservatives in the US
PISA rankings disagree with you. The 2022 results showed the US above most western countries in reading, below only Ireland, Estonia, and Canada (and a few Asian countries), and a little further down in science but still beating out countries tries like Germany, Sweden, Spain, etc. The math score was even worse, about halfway down the rankings, but again, still above western countries like Iceland and Greece.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programme_for_International_Student_Assessment
as i said. americans do not have broad knowledge. look at things that require wider knowledge..reading and math does not require wider knowledge unlike history or geography.