A news item.
And this is the poster in question, which should be plastered everywhere:
Back in March, the West Ada School District near Boise forced a teacher to take this poster down from a wall in her classroom. She rightly refused, left the district, and found a job elsewhere.
Now the Idaho Attorney General's Office has ruled that any school in the state wanting to display this poster is breaking the law.
It's odd to see people scared of inclusion; of offering a token to show students they're welcome.
Big scary, scary posters frightening big men who ought to know a lot better than that. Becuase I guarantee if someone of their ilk wanted to display a poster or sign in a classroom and others were against it, they'd have their knickers in a twist.
Obviously, a copy of the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence, for example, could be said to express an opinion or a political point of view. Should they be banned from display in Idaho schools?
I'm sure the AG's office could write an opinion that would dance a tango around such a prohibition. But banning speech is banning speech.
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