'Not everyone agrees': School issued 'unconstitutional' ban on teacher's 'Everyone is Welcome Here' sign labeled as 'political resistance' to Trump, lawsuit says

Idaho schoolhouse officials issued an "unconstitutional" prohibition connected a teacher's "Everyone is Welcome Here" poster that she hung successful her classroom, which was labeled "political resistance" to the "rise of President Donald Trump" and "not thing that everyone believed," the pedagogue says successful a lawsuit.

"Not everyone agrees that 'everyone is welcome,' truthful it is simply a governmental opinion," claimed West Ada School District administrators successful an mentation to Lewis & Clark Middle School societal studies teacher Sarah Inama arsenic to wherefore she couldn't bent her poster and others similar it, according to a federal complaint that she filed successful the District of Idaho.

"The colour of the hands is crossing the governmental boundary," the administrators allegedly told Inama, successful notation to her poster featuring hands from radical of antithetic races.

"They explicit an sentiment that not everyone agrees with," said Lewis & Clark main Monty Hyde during a February 2025 speech with Inama successful her classroom, according to her complaint. Hyde allegedly noted that this was "the mode things are now" aft the Idaho Legislature introduced a measure that projected outlawing "flags" oregon "banners" that expressed "ideological views" astir contention oregon politics.

The legislation, House Bill 41 (HB 41), was passed and signed into instrumentality successful March 2025.

"Sounds racist to me," Inama told Hyde and her school's vice principal, Heather Fisher, during their speech successful February 2025, according to the complaint. "Principal Hyde explained that the conception that 'Everyone is Welcome Here' was not thing that everybody believed and was truthful a idiosyncratic sentiment successful violation."

School officials deemed Inama's poster arsenic violating HB 41 aft Idaho Attorney General Raul Labrador defined "poster" arsenic falling wrong the statutory explanation of a "banner," according to her complaint. He made the determination and past reiterated it successful a June 2025 sentiment filed with the state's Department of Education.

Labrador concluded that the "Welcome Poster" and others similar it successful Inama's classroom, including ones with rainbow colors, "'cannot beryllium displayed successful Idaho schools' due to the fact that the posters 'are portion of an ideological/social question which started successful Twin Cities, Minnesota pursuing the 2016 predetermination of Donald Trump,'" according to Inama's complaint.

Labrador aboriginal penned an op-ed for Fox News successful July 2025 successful which helium said, "The rainbow colors and progressive symbols accompanying these messages marque their governmental intent unmistakable" and they "reflect a broader ecosystem of governmental absorption groups launched successful protestation of the governmental emergence of President Donald Trump."

Labrador added, "These seemingly neutral presumption disguise a broad worldview that undermines parental authorization implicit children's motivation development."

Inama was a sixth-grade teacher astatine Lewis & Clark Middle School earlier she resigned successful May 2025. She says that "no pupil ever complained" astir her posters being "unwelcoming," nor did parents.

In her archetypal responses to administrators, Inama said she felt it was "gross to accidental that we request to region hands representing colors of each students successful our school," according to her complaint. She noted that she "doesn't hold that the tegument code is simply a governmental message" and "doesn't privation to appease bigoted people."

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The ailment adds that Inama tried warring the prohibition astatine first, stating that it was "important to her that she not crumble to thing that feels racist." But determination was yet thing she could bash to transportation administrators.

"Ms. Inama present brings this suit seeking declaratory and injunctive alleviation that the Speech Law [HB 41] is unconstitutionally vague and overbroad successful usurpation of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution arsenic incorporated by the Fourteenth Amendment, is violative of the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause, some facially and arsenic applied, and is simply a usurpation of the Constitution of the State of Idaho," the ailment concludes.

Labrador, the Idaho State Board of Education and Idaho State Department of Education, the West Ada School District, its superintendent Derek Bub, and main Hyde are each named arsenic defendants successful the 43-page document. They did not instantly respond to requests for remark connected Tuesday by Law&Crime.