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Rockwood students and parents press board for a formal flag-display policy; board tables the request for further research
Summary
Students, parents and community members urged the Rockwood Board of Education to adopt policy 2101 to standardize when national flags are displayed in schools; after hours of testimony and questions about which country lists to use, the board voted to table the policy and gather more information.
At the Nov. 4 Rockwood Board of Education meeting, scores of students, parents and community members urged the board to adopt proposed policy 2101 to create a consistent process for displaying national flags requested by students, parents or teachers.
Gloria Grice, a parent of three, told the board the district’s lack of a clear flag policy produces “inconsistency and inequity” and asked the board to advance the proposal so students do not “feel unseen or excluded.” Student speakers described direct refusals at individual schools: “Just no,” Noah Grace said after recounting his request to raise the Palestinian flag, and Baso Safi told the…
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