Idaho teacher fights back after order to remove 'Everyone is Welcome Here' poster - All In - MSNBC

[Rhiannon12866]

Chris Hayes shares the story of Sarah Inama, a 6th grade teacher in Idaho who is standing up to injustice in her school and state. - Aired on 03/19/2025.

[Karadeniz]

1. For all the repugs who want christianity taught in schools, this teacher did it

and the repugs don't recognize it !!!!!

[MontanaMama]

3. Holy hell.

I completely missed that. Right over my head.

[MontanaMama]

2. I've been following this teacher

next door in Idaho…she is a goddess, a juggernaut and a warrior. She said in another news story…”you’re welcome here or you are not.” It’s really that simple.

[Rhiannon12866]

4. I know! I admire her, too, for standing up for her principles - and so do her students! Kudos!!!

[KitFox]

5. I hope she has colleagues who will stand with her

and put that poster up in their rooms, too. One time our district hired a new safety inspector who said we could no longer have anything made of paper on our walls and nothing hanging because he deemed it a fire hazard. We thought it was a joke. In an elementary school classroom every wall is full of children’s work, teaching posters and seasonal decorations. We all got together and everyone agreed to just ignore it and we took nothing down. The principal was kind of on the fence but we held together. We got the middle school and high school to stand with us. We got a firefighter to back us up saying that did not constitute a fire hazard. The safety inspector had to back off. I wish all the teachers would back her up and hopefully the parents of those wonderful students supporting her. I admire her immensely for standing up for the children and what is right. Seeing the students with their signs and chants was heartwarming. The administrator’s outlook was so obviously transparent when he thought the words without the multi-colored skin tone hands would be okay. More MAGA crap inventing a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist in the first place. Will we ever evolve past this! I guess I will keep holding out hope from the young people’s response. Thank you for posting the whole segment.

[Rhiannon12866]

6. Kudos to you since you've been through this and you stood your ground

And, of course, it doesn't sound like any kind of a problem to me, either. Though most of my elementary and junior high days were spent in a pretty diverse community and so our classes were pretty diverse. Of course, at that age, I didn't know that this was an issue, my parents and grandmother never said anything nor did the teachers.

But times have sure changed, we've never had a blatant bigot in the Oval Office before - especially one who believes it's his business to control schools and colleges regarding what they can teach. I know that my college taught African American courses since I can remember sitting with a professor and his wife in the cafeteria during African American food night - and they were really nice, we had a good conversation. I sure hope that nothing has changed at my school - but then it's here in New York. *sigh*

[KitFox]

8. Thank you for sharing your experience!

I was raised in a rural town that was not at all diverse. However, my grandmother told us about her experience as a child being harassed and bullied by the KuKluxKlan because they also targeted Catholics. I went to a Jesuit University in a large city and it was very liberal in many ways. My favorite history class was Black History. Our text was “From Freedom to Slavery” by John Hope Franklin. I wish that could be required reading for everyone. One of my English professors was a Holocaust survivor and her perspective was intensely invaluable. My Ethics professor challenged us incessantly. He wore a huge button every day that said “Question Authority “. This was late sixties so we had all kinds of protests and sit ins happening on campus and in the city. I am thankful for those experiences and here I am all these years later out in the streets with my signs. I appreciate this DU Family! Insist; Resist; Persist.

[Rhiannon12866]

9. Wow, sounds like you grew up with an open mind, I did as well.

When I was in elementary school, it never dawned on me that anyone was "different." I really believe that any kind of prejudice is taught. My best friend's mother came from Japan, but then my maternal grandmother came from Poland. I figured that everyone had something.

And when I was older, my paternal grandmother (whose Dutch ancestors arrived on these shores in the 1600s) told me that when her kids were young a neighbor gave her a hard time about NOT having prejudices. She told me the woman said "Hazel, when your kids grow up, one of them is going to marry an Eskimo!" I guess that was the minorest minority that this woman could think of!

[murielm99]

7. The city of Rockford IL just had an argument about

an "All People are Welcome Here" sign. Some fools wanted to get rid of it. The city council voted to keep it. The vote was unanimous.

[Uncle Joe]

10. Kicked and recommended

Thanks for the thread Rhiannon