Logan City School District recently approved a new policy about whether and how teachers can display personal items — such as Pride flags — in their classrooms. The policy says such displays are OK, as long as they 'do not disturb the learning process.'
, which says any classroom materials “do not display materials that endorse, promote, or disparage a particular political, personal, religious, denominational, sectarian, agnostic, or atheist belief or viewpoint.”, a school’s principal does not have to remove personal items — including Pride flags — from a teacher’s desk as long as they “do not disturb the learning process.”
Frank Stewart, the board’s vice president, said the policy and training will help teachers better know the answers and processes for student and parent concerns. Schofield said the board has delayed putting their training together, so they could take any changes by the Legislature into account, specifically relating to neutrality in classrooms.
During a Sept. 13 school board meeting, Andrea Sinfield, a Hillcrest Elementary School parent, kick-started the conversation about classroom symbols when she expressed concern about a pride flag sticker with the words “Safe Space” on the front door of a few kindergarten classroom doors in her daughter’s elementary school.“It’s a little disheartening to me, because of all the work that [we] have done to try to create a neutral classroom, because that’s what it is,” Sinfield said.
However, Domenech did say he was concerned that, after the administrator training, their principal may be more strict with implementing the policy than other schools in the district.
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