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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. 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 regardi...