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<\/p>\nHigh School Ends Senior Tradition of Painting Parking Stalls After Student Paints a Rainbow Flag<\/b>
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In September, Kansas high school student Logan Waner painted a rainbow flag in his parking spot<\/a> as part of a senior tradition of painting parking stalls. The flag set off controversy in the town of Marion, and now the tradition has been canceled.<\/p>\n A September report on the flag painting:<\/p>\n \ufeff<\/span><\/p>\n The Wichita Eagle<\/em> reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n The school board voted 4-3 Monday to end the practice of seniors painting their parking stalls, the\u00a0Marion County Record<\/a>\u00a0reported.<\/p>\n Waner painted a\u00a0rainbow flag<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 a symbol of LGBT pride \u2014 on his parking spot at the central Kansas school in September. A day later, Chuck Seifert of Marion showed up at a special school board meeting to complain to superintendent Aaron Homburg.<\/p>\n Confusion came when Waner posted on Facebook that principal Tod Gordon was requiring him to change his design \u2014 a claim\u00a0Gordon denied<\/a>. He said he had no specific guidelines for painting the spots and approved the design before it was painted.<\/p>\n Waner kept his spot, but\u00a0a vandal covered<\/a>\u00a0the public property with black latex asphalt sealer the next day.<\/p>\n \u201cI knew there would be someone who would complain,\u201d Waner said through Facebook Messenger. \u201cIt\u2019s just human instinct. But I didn\u2019t think all the controversy over one man<\/a>\u2019s complaint was necessary. It did prove a point though. I mostly chose to paint the flag because it\u2019s simple enough and I\u2019m a horrible artist. It described me well enough, so it just felt right.\u201d<\/p>\n The flag also attracted the attention of Westboro Baptist Church, which recently came to protest<\/a>.<\/p>\n The post High School Ends Senior Tradition of Painting Parking Stalls After Student Paints a Rainbow Flag<\/a> appeared first on Towleroad<\/a>.<\/p>\n