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Senate committee refers House Bill 41 on classroom flags and banners to amending order after lengthy debate
Summary
A bill that would limit flags and banners in Idaho classrooms to the American and state flags and narrow other displays drew extensive committee debate and public testimony; the Senate Education Committee voted to send House Bill 41 to the amending order for work on definitions and scope.
House Bill 41, sponsored in the House by Representative Ted Hill and heard Feb. 11 before the Senate Education Committee, would require that the American flag and state flag be the primary flags displayed in classrooms and prohibit displays the bill characterizes as political, ideological or religious.
“I want to reinstate that as a warrior ethos,” Representative Ted Hill said, describing the bill as a way to reduce perceived political and ideological displays in classrooms. “All these political, ideological, and religious flags will not be allowed. They’re all distractions and divisive.”
Hill said the bill would permit certain exceptions such as official military flags and other official state flags. He said the proposal is intended to focus classroom displays and avoid what he called distractions that divide students. Committee members pressed on practical…
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