Things snowballed, and weeks later, school board vice chair Brian Shannon was at the school board meeting asking for a vote on this measure.īRIAN SHANNON: Direct the superintendent to remove all Black Lives Matter in all instances and the symbol known as the pride flag from district facilities immediately. Some parents in this Portland exurb called Newberg objected. KATIA RIDDLE, BYLINE: It began with one Black Lives Matter poster hung in an elementary school. A school board in Oregon recently took on calls for racial justice by passing a rule that teachers and staff are not allowed to wear or display Black Lives Matter signs or gay pride flags at school.
