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TexasTowelie

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Fri Apr 26, 2019, 03:55 PM Apr 2019

Confederate flags, not rainbow ones, banned in Cheyenne schools [View all]

CHEYENNE — Rainbow flags and LGBTQ-related clothing have not been banned at McCormick Junior High or district-wide, Laramie County School District 1 Superintendent Boyd Brown told the Wyoming Tribune Eagle on Friday morning.

On Wednesday, students in McCormick’s Gay-Straight Alliance club were told they were no longer allowed to have or wear any LGBTQ-related apparel on school grounds, including flags, shirts, pins and bracelets.

Students were also told they would not be allowed to wear rainbow colors to school, according to a student and several parents.

Brown said this was not the district’s intention and the message had been misconstrued.

Read more: https://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/education/confederate-flags-not-rainbow-ones-banned-in-cheyenne-schools/article_1a315803-c22a-5564-a8c6-324355646b27.html

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