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Carroll County parent Sarah Lau held back tears as she watched dozens of protesters line up outside the Board of Education meeting on Wednesday in Westminster. The protestors were there to support the display of rainbow pride flags inside public school buildings.
A new policy aimed at maintaining political neutrality in classrooms was scheduled to be approved during Wednesday’s Carroll County school board meeting. But it was tabled after a board member pitched a mechanism for reporting alleged violations and tracking teachers who didn’t stick to the curriculum.
Board President Marsha Herbert and Vice President Ken Kiler sent letters to the state requesting the in-school mask mandate be lifted. Ed O’Meally, legal counsel for the board, said no law prevents them from doing so.