The Salt Lake City School District Board of Education recently voted to keep West High School open to students from outside the district for the next school year. This was the right decision. At the board meeting, students and teachers alike spoke out about how West High has become an open and inviting place for students of all varieties.
The last time I was at a Salt Lake board meeting was back in the mid-’90s, when, as an eighth-grader in the Extended Learning Program at West High, I walked out of school in protest of the cancellation of all clubs during the Gay/Straight Alliance debacle.