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Student members of Maryland boards of education are elected to add the student’s voice to their local school boards. But not all of them can vote.

Maryland law would ban hate symbols in public schools Search By Tom Hindle ANNAPOLIS (March 31, 2021)—Hereford High School senior Vita Shats had seen it weekly. The Confederate flag on T-shirts. The swastikas in bathrooms. Shed seen a fellow student with a Confederate flag on his belt, flaunting it in a Black students face. Two years ago, she talked to her school principal about implementation of a policy to ban those symbols—but was told it was beyond the schools jurisdiction. So, she trie...