READ: The E-mail directing some Ohio teachers to remove all rainbows from their rooms

Principal Court Lilly sent the e-mail on September 22 as a result of a “politically charged era in time.”

By Ken Schneck ● Youth ● September 24, 2021

Via a public records request, The Buckeye Flame obtained an e-mail that was sent from Principal Court Lilly to all New Richmond Middle School staff on September 22 describing a “politically charged era in time” and directing teachers to remove “anything from [their] rooms that has rainbows on it.”

The instructions were handed down from the New Richmond Exempted Village School District Board of Education.

Check out the full story for all the details.

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21068839/new-richmond-staff-email-re-rainbows.pdf

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Ken Schneck

Dr. Ken Schneck (he/him) is the editor of The Buckeye Flame, Ohio’s LGBTQ+ newsroom. For this work, he was honored with the Sarah Pettit Memorial Award for National LGBTQ+ Journalist of the Year. He is the author of “Seriously, What Am I Doing Here? The Adventures of a Wondering and Wandering Gay Jew” and three LGBTQ+ Ohio history books. Schneck spent 25 years working in higher education, including 10 years as a dean of students and 13 years as a tenured professor of education. He is a graduate of the Executive Program in News Innovation and Leadership at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York.

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Ken Schneck

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