Summary
Idaho teacher Sarah Inama is defying her school district’s order to remove classroom posters promoting inclusivity, including one stating, “Everyone is welcome here.”
The district claims the signs violate a policy requiring “content-neutral” decorations and argues that classrooms should be “distraction-free” environments.
Inama initially removed them but later rehung them, arguing the only opposing view to inclusion is exclusion.
Legal counsel upheld the district’s stance, giving her until the school year’s end to comply. Inama refuses, risking her job, and has received widespread support from the community and educators nationwide.
Take notes everyone, this is just one small example of what “fuck you, make me” looks like. This teacher has more spine than Chuck Schumer and half of our administrative state.
This is fucking insane. I think I’m going to go hyperventilate for a while.
If student artwork is allowed, as the administration states, she needs to have a word with the art teacher. A sign just like hers with real student handprints would be even better than the purchased poster.
Can she have a sign that says “Apparently some are not welcome here” then?
Some are more equal that others.
How is “everyone is welcome” not “content -neutral”?
The message was supposedly fine, but you can’t have it delivered by someone with brown skin.
Seriously: “the district told the Statesman that it was not the message that was at issue, but rather the hands of different skin tones on the poster.”
https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/education/article301972094.html
Wow. What colour hands would they recommend? Let me guess…
Maybe the two vampire hands were the problem.
Because it doesn’t express support for fascism.
Acknowledging that there is a goal of equality within society at all is now legally non-neutral. There is legal pressure to allow white supremacy, patriarchy, and xenophobic christian nationalism to exist as they are without any pressure to change them. To acknowledge that disadvantaged classes of people exist and face discrimination in any form is illegal, or at least that is their intent.
Some of the letters are printed in colors almost as scary as the colors of a rainbow. That’s the only “offensive to idiots” thing I can possibly come up with.
Because neutrality is oppression.
It doesn’t support cishet white males, obviously
It actually does, but it supports other people too. That’s the bit they can’t stand.
This is really because it currently invites vampires
Just be out with it. Put up a sign ironically that says: “colored not welcome” since that’s what they obviously want
Thought they believed “all lives matter”?🤔
They also go on about free speech. Their words mean nothing.
All [white] lives matter.
Inama initially removed them but later rehung them, arguing the only opposing view to inclusion is exclusion.
Smart teacher. That is, indeed, the only logical stance.
They don’t do logic in the present day US.
It’s more about the teacher than those who are in charge. That logical conclusion is also the only morale one. I hope she stays strong and fights this oppression.
