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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. She d seen a fellow student with a Confederate flag on his belt, flaunting it in a Black student s 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 school s jurisdiction. So, she tried two superintendents.
Neither got back to her, she said.
There was no statewide policy regarding hate symbols in schools and Hereford High didn t have one, either leaving Shats and students like her with few options.
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before the Supreme Court blocked the practice.
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