To be fair, we all have a First Amendment right to free speech, accurate or not, and the writer is entitled to interpret the events of that evening through his own lens. However, a line was crossed in comparing the plight of a white man being asked to leave a public meeting for disruptive behavior with the quiet, civil disobedience of Rosa Parks.
I encourage the Park City School District board to consider all perspectives by holding “good faith” public meetings, not “check the box” theater. I now have much more appreciation for our County Council. In March, the.
I attended the Park City School District’s school board forum on May 2, where feedback was requested from the community on the new Equity Policy. I wanted to hear firs-hand why people were opposing the new.
Since the passage of Utah’s “sensitive materials” law in 2022, Utah school districts have received dozens of requests for book reviews, mostly for books related to race or LGBTQ themes.