On Tuesday (August 11), Newberg Oregon School District voted to ban signs, clothing and other items which could be constituted as “political”.
The newly introduced ban will only apply to district staff and faculty, and will not apply to students. “As a school board, it’s our job to make decisions that are going to be there for every single kid at Newberg High School, not just the kids that are represented in just one group.
It has to be all kids,” said school board chair Dave Brown. Newberg school counsellor Joshua Reid argued against the band, alongside 15 other counsellors, who signed a letter asking the school board to vote against the ban. “When [Black and LGBTQ] students enter our schools and see the symbols that we mean to communicate