SIMON: Both students and teachers don't lose all of their First Amendment protections when they enter the school. She says there's a lot that's still unclear about this rule and ambiguity about how it might apply to students. RIDDLE: Kelly Simon is with the ACLU of Oregon. KELLY SIMON: What the school board is doing here is unlawful. Under the rule, the only political symbols or flags allowed in the school would be the state and U.S. Things snowballed, and weeks later, school board vice chair Brian Shannon was at the school board meeting asking for a vote on this measure.īRIAN SHANNON: Direct the superintendent to remove all Black Lives Matter in all instances and the symbol known as the pride flag from district facilities immediately.
Some parents in this Portland exurb called Newberg objected. KATIA RIDDLE, BYLINE: It began with one Black Lives Matter poster hung in an elementary school. A school board in Oregon recently took on calls for racial justice by passing a rule that teachers and staff are not allowed to wear or display Black Lives Matter signs or gay pride flags at school.
