{"id":7732,"date":"2025-03-16T08:19:39","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T12:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=7732"},"modified":"2025-03-16T15:50:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T19:50:44","slug":"not-welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2025\/03\/16\/not-welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"840\" height=\"604\" data-attachment-id=\"7733\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2025\/03\/16\/not-welcome\/img_5717\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dahlman.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_5717.jpeg?fit=1520%2C1092&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1520,1092\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_5717\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dahlman.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_5717.jpeg?fit=840%2C604&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dahlman.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_5717.jpeg?resize=840%2C604&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7733\" style=\"width:200px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dahlman.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_5717.jpeg?resize=1024%2C736&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dahlman.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_5717.jpeg?resize=300%2C216&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dahlman.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_5717.jpeg?resize=768%2C552&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dahlman.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_5717.jpeg?resize=1200%2C862&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dahlman.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_5717.jpeg?w=1520&amp;ssl=1 1520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"754\" height=\"1024\" data-attachment-id=\"7735\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2025\/03\/16\/not-welcome\/everyone-is-welcome-here-idaho-mc-250314-02-1d7fa8-jpg-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dahlman.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/everyone-is-welcome-here-idaho-mc-250314-02-1d7fa8.jpg-1.jpeg?fit=1520%2C2063&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1520,2063\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"everyone-is-welcome-here-idaho-mc-250314-02-1d7fa8.jpg\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dahlman.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/everyone-is-welcome-here-idaho-mc-250314-02-1d7fa8.jpg-1.jpeg?fit=754%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dahlman.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/everyone-is-welcome-here-idaho-mc-250314-02-1d7fa8.jpg-1.jpeg?resize=754%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7735\" style=\"width:189px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dahlman.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/everyone-is-welcome-here-idaho-mc-250314-02-1d7fa8.jpg-1.jpeg?resize=754%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 754w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dahlman.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/everyone-is-welcome-here-idaho-mc-250314-02-1d7fa8.jpg-1.jpeg?resize=221%2C300&amp;ssl=1 221w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dahlman.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/everyone-is-welcome-here-idaho-mc-250314-02-1d7fa8.jpg-1.jpeg?resize=768%2C1042&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dahlman.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/everyone-is-welcome-here-idaho-mc-250314-02-1d7fa8.jpg-1.jpeg?resize=1132%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1132w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dahlman.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/everyone-is-welcome-here-idaho-mc-250314-02-1d7fa8.jpg-1.jpeg?resize=1509%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1509w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dahlman.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/everyone-is-welcome-here-idaho-mc-250314-02-1d7fa8.jpg-1.jpeg?resize=1200%2C1629&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dahlman.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/everyone-is-welcome-here-idaho-mc-250314-02-1d7fa8.jpg-1.jpeg?w=1520&amp;ssl=1 1520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lewis and Clark Middle<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the sixth grade at Lewis and Clark Middle School in&nbsp;&nbsp;Meridian, Idaho, everyone is not \u201cwelcome\u201d anymore (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/parents\/teacher-remove-everyone-is-welcome-here-sign-rcna196282\">Today<\/a>). &nbsp; &nbsp;In Mrs. Inama\u2019s class, the administration ordered her to take down two posters, the two banners above.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;According to the administrators, the banners violate a district policy that requires, \u201c\u2026<em>&#8220;banners to be content-neutral and conducive to a positive learning environment .&#8221; &nbsp;<\/em>Clearly, in the West Ada School District, welcoming and valuing everyone, regardless of the color of their hands or some other factors, is against District policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s how far our Nation has come, in such a short time.&nbsp;&nbsp;Putting multi-racial hands together in a poster is now controversial.&nbsp;&nbsp; And the fact that \u201ceveryone is welcome\u201d simply isn\u2019t true anymore.&nbsp; &nbsp;To West Ada, and for a lot of the rest of the Nation, everyone is NOT welcome.&nbsp;&nbsp;Or at least implying that they might be is now a \u201cpolitical controversy\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And West Ada isn\u2019t some tiny district in the mountains of Idaho.&nbsp; &nbsp;It\u2019s the school district of suburban Boise, with 40,000 students and seven high schools.&nbsp;&nbsp;This ain\u2019t the \u201chicks\u201d in the middle of nowhere, this is modern, suburban, America.&nbsp; &nbsp;West Ada is 77.75% white, 12.1% Latino, 5% multi-racial, 2% Asian-American, and 2% Black.&nbsp;&nbsp;You might be able to guess who doesn\u2019t feel particularly \u201cwelcome\u201d here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">21<sup>st<\/sup>&nbsp;Century Politics<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sixth graders at Lewis and Clark Middle are getting a lesson in the white-power, MAGA politics of the 21<sup>st<\/sup>&nbsp;Century this year.&nbsp;They are learning that some in power in our society, don\u2019t want them to see that, \u201cAll men are created equal\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;To the West Ada District, black hands and brown hands and white hands aren\u2019t to be together.&nbsp;&nbsp;In West Ada, equality is now; \u201cnot conducive to a positive learning environment\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;And they might lose their teacher, Mrs. Inama, in the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do the Administrators of West Ada really think that their students shouldn\u2019t&nbsp;&nbsp;be; \u201cwelcome, important, accepted, respected, encourage, valued and equal?\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;They probably do.&nbsp; &nbsp;But those Administrators are dead-afraid that community members might call them a new dirty word: W#@E!!!!&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s \u201cwoke\u201d to say that kids are \u201cequally respected\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s \u201cwoke\u201d to say that Black and Asian and multi-racial kids are \u201cwelcome\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;And it\u2019s really, really, really \u201cwoke\u201d, to think there might even be sixth graders becoming aware that they are not \u201cthe same\u201d as all the others.&nbsp;&nbsp;Science (that dreaded word) now identifies&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/what_are_the_72_other_genders\/article.htm\">seventy-two versions of gender<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;But I\u2019m sure in the minds of many in West Ada, and the President of the United States, they can only think of two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Be the Same<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There also might be some sixth graders who are discovering their sexual preferences, completely separate from their gender identity.&nbsp;&nbsp; That would place them somewhere on the eight-point \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/articles\/kinsey-scale#purpose\">Kinsey Scale<\/a>\u201d of sexual orientation (from 1948, not so new).&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Again, that\u2019s not \u201cacceptable\u201d in our new order of 1950\u2019s rigidity.&nbsp;&nbsp;Gay kids, especially sixth graders: &nbsp;&nbsp;OH, NO WAY are they acceptable!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then there\u2019s the usual factors that divide any group of children:&nbsp;&nbsp;economic background, intellectual, artistic, musical, athletic abilities; and all of the other things that make us different to each other.&nbsp; &nbsp; When they come to school, they all want to know that all of the things that \u201cmake them, them\u201d matter, and are accepted.&nbsp;&nbsp;They also want to know that the teacher will see them as who they are, and treat them fairly.&nbsp;&nbsp;(But, not necessarily  equally.&nbsp;&nbsp;If a teacher doesn\u2019t somehow differentiate how they teach to the needs of the individual kids, it might be equal, but it won\u2019t be fair).&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;But the message of West Ada is this:&nbsp;&nbsp;be the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">On the List<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sure, if Mrs. Inama is fired, it won\u2019t be for her \u201cbeliefs\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;No one is fired for believing that kids should be secure in the classroom.&nbsp; &nbsp; She\u2019ll be fired for \u201cINSUBORDINATION\u201d, refusing to knuckle-under to the new change in our \u201cpolitical environment\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;She\u2019s a fifth-year teacher, and she knows what\u2019s right.&nbsp;&nbsp;Veteran teachers will tell her to let this go, take the posters down, then close the door and teach the way she always did.&nbsp;&nbsp;That&#8217;s the way to \u201cweather\u201d  political turmoil.&nbsp;&nbsp;But it\u2019s hard for newer, &#8220;gooder&#8221; teachers to do that.&nbsp;&nbsp;She wants to model for her kids what \u201cgood citizens\u201d do:  stand up for their beliefs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The veterans still model good citizenship in the classroom. 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