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Residents flood board podium over classroom displays, redacted legal settlement and outside influence
Summary
Dozens of residents and several attorneys spoke at the Little Miami board meeting urging different approaches to a proposed neutral classroom-display (flag) policy, criticizing outside influence, and asking for transparency around a redacted settlement. Speakers expressed concerns about free speech, safety and local control.
The Little Miami School District—s Jan. 28 meeting drew prolonged public comment on a proposed neutral classroom-display policy (sometimes discussed as a "flag policy"), redacted details in a legal settlement and the role of outside groups in local school governance.
Speakers voiced widely divergent views about whether classrooms should be limited to the American flag, school flags and curriculum-related materials or whether such a rule would amount to censorship.
William Wentz, an attorney who said he had practiced law for decades, urged the board to preserve broad free-speech protections in classrooms and warned that a requirement to obtain approval for any display could amount to censorship. "The basic problem here is that the policy that is being proposed…
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