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House education committee introduces revised classroom flag policy bill
Summary
Representative Ted Hill introduced RS31963 to prohibit political, ideological and religious flags in classrooms while preserving U.S. and state flags; committee voted to send the measure to the second-reading calendar after questions about how "conflict" would be defined and who would enforce the rule.
Representative Ted Hill, R.-District 14, introduced RS31963 on Jan. 23 before the Idaho House Committee on Education, asking the committee to printed and placed the measure on the second-reading calendar.
The bill would make the American flag the primary flag in public school classrooms and would prohibit "political, ideological and religious flags" from classroom displays. The measure preserves display of U.S. and state flags and allows other nation-state flags for instructional purposes except when a nation is in "hostilities," which Hill described as open, kinetic conflict.
The bill matters because it would limit certain non-governmental banners in classrooms and leave…
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