BANNER: Why state the obvious?

In a recent letter to the editor on Sept. 10, Hayden resident and educator Tamara Sines-Kermelis declares that a school’s removal of a banner would lead kids to receiving the “wrong message.”

How can having no banner send any message?

The apparent “new” message, to her, without a banner in place is, “That inclusion is controversial, and that kindness has no place in classrooms.”

That’s quite the stretch without a banner, don’t you think?

And then she goes on to state what I think is the obvious for a local public school which is, “nothing could be further from the truth”.

So why do you need a banner to state the obvious in the first place?

Maybe the banner should be hung over your front door based on what appears to be a hysterical and emotional reaction to the removal of it, the Idaho legislature and AG Labrador.

You say “classrooms should be places where students feel they belong.”

But what about your home?

Are you inclusive, tolerant and welcoming to anyone who walks up to your front door or enters your personal space?

DUANE MARTIN

Rathdrum