BOISE, Idaho — A West Ada School District teacher is resigning months after district officials ordered her to remove an “Everyone is Welcome Here” poster from her classroom, citing a policy against displaying materials that are not content neutral.
The poster has been in Sarah Inama’s sixth-grade world civilizations class at Lewis and Clark Middle School for the last four years. District officials told Inama the poster violated district policy because it expressed a personal opinion that some don’t agree with in “today’s political environment.” After first taking it down, Inama put the poster back up in her classroom.
Inama told KTVB she hasn’t heard much from the school district or her administration since receiving the last email from the Chief Academic Officer, Marcus Myers, telling her to take the poster down…