To borrow a line from the hit Broadway musical, Hamilton, the principal at the Washington, D.C. elementary school named for America’s favorite fighting Frenchman has said no to this: the rainbow flag that is the symbol of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender pride and its civil rights movement.

What makes this especially newsworthy is that Lafayette Elementary School is about to get a new neighbor: Vice President-elect Mike Pence.

Principal Carrie Broquard said the school received the flag as a “gift from the neighborhood” and did display it, but on Monday she sent a note to parents explaining she’d decided to take it down, reported Washingtonian magazine.

“Given the current political landscape, our commitment is to remain neutral,” she wrote. “In order to avoid any unwanted attention or to have any symbols misinterpreted as a political action, the flag has been removed.”

The decision follows international news coverage of Pence’s new neighbors hanging Pride flags from their homes to send a signal to the incoming vice president, who has been an outspoken proponent of “religious freedom” laws that seek to marginalize the rights of same-sex couples and LGBTQ Americans.

Here’s her full note: