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White Idaho Middle School Teacher told to take down sign that said "Everyone Is Welcome Here" (evidently due to the different color hands on the sign

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Here's are the two controversial and over the top signs.

"Inama said she was told by administrators on Feb. 3 that her signs “don’t allow people to express differing opinions, that it is controversial in today’s political environment.” She initially removed them, but then had a change of heart."

PS: It appears that this Idaho school district needs to send a message to 6th graders that not everyone is equal and not everyone is welcome.









“I took them down, but I was very sad about it,” said Inama, who stressed that she was speaking to the Statesman as a private individual whose views don’t represent the district. “And the following few days, I just couldn’t stop thinking about it. I came back in on a Saturday with my husband and my baby, and I put it back up.”



 
Btw, she eventually resigned instead of being part of the racism.
 
Oh, one more thing.

Praise Jesus Christ.
 
How is this a shock?
 
Commandments. She needs to post commandments. Commandments carved in stone, 'Thou shalt's and 'Thou shalt not's, not that leftist 'welcome' shit.
Commandments.
 
Grand Mal said:
Commandments. She needs to post commandments. Commandments carved in stone, 'Thou shalt's and 'Thou shalt not's, not that leftist 'welcome' shit.
Commandments.
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Wow. Great point.
 
Maybe a military parade in front of their class on the first day of school every year, with all the weapons pointed at them to put the fear of God into them. How else are you going to discipline these critters these days?
 
ataraxia said:
Maybe a military parade in front of their class on the first day of school every year, with all the weapons pointed at them to put the fear of God into them. How else are you going to discipline these critters these days?
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Great idea!

Welcome them young to Trump's America.
 

The real controversy was the inclusion of white hands and a seven color rainbow.
 

These kinds of moral declaratives are not unwelcome by some because they disagree, but because they know that they are being lectured to AS IF they are violating these values.

Everyone since the 1950s knows that people are equal and to be accepted into classrooms. Why repeat it over and over, decade after decade?

It is just as annoying if a teacher put up a sign declaring to students "We speak English here", which is also well known already. The implication being, of course, is that someone is speaking something else and needs lectured to..

So I have no problem with not allowing this kind of needless provocation.
 
I thought this looked familiar.

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Thread 'Everyone is not Welcome! Whites Only in our school! according to the Idaho school superintendent!'

This getting funnier and funnier...uhmmm in a sad pathetic racist way!



Sarah Inama, a sixth-grade history teacher at Lewis and Clark Middle School in Meridian, Idaho, has been involved in a controversy after being ordered by the West Ada School District to remove classroom signs stating "Everyone is welcome here" and another affirming that everyone in the classroom is "important, accepted, respected, encouraged, valued, and equal
The district's rationale for demanding the removal of these signs was based on their interpretation that the messages violated district policies requiring...
 
Telling 6th graders that everyone is welcome is controversial.
 
Hamish Howl said:
Scratch a libertarian, find an authoritarian.


I feel that posting the commandments is provocative. How dare the state try to force their religion on my kids?
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I agree, post the commandments is provocative to some parents. Hence it too should not be posted.

My stance has nothing to do with whether I or not I support the values expressed, it has to do with my belief that schools need as little conflict as possible in order to educate. Just as some schools expect uniforms rather than competition in clothing (class conflict) so to I am not a supporter of minor's "free speech" claims.

When they are adults, they can do what they like. Till then, they are wards of society and their parents.
 
Making sixth graders feel welcome in their 6th grade classroom is not provocative.
 
I would argue that making kids feel welcome is conducive to education.
 
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