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By Jackie Homan
Parents at Eastern Middle School say transgender, Black Lives Matter, and “no one is illegal” propaganda is being displayed inside a sixth grade classroom. A photograph also shows a transgender progress-pride flag on the school psychologist’s door.
The concerned parents contacted The Connecticut Centinal for assistance. I contribute Greenwich Patriots articles to The Centinal, so the assignment came to me.
On September 24 I sent a media inquiry to the Director of Communications for Greenwich Public Schools, Jonathan Supranowitz. I told him parents had supplied the photograph of the psychologist’s door and had reported the classroom material. Religious families and others who object to the displays said they were afraid to complain themselves. They had watched what happened when I raised similar objections in prior years, and they did not want to be labeled the same way or to have any of it fall on their children.
Supranowitz’s first reply did not address the displays. He wrote that the inquiry contained “clearly biased items,” that any official response could be read as endorsing or rejecting those concepts, and that he would do neither. He said he does not respond to “rumors, conjecture, or assumptions,” and told me to send the families to the district directly. He added that I was free to quote him.
I asked again, this time for the policy on classroom decor, and explained that the questions were phrased as the “direct feedback” received from parents. Supranowitz pointed to Policy 1311 and said afraid parents should “give me a shout.” “I won’t judge. I’ll tell them the truth.”
The truth is the parents already feared being publicly identified as the “squeaky wheel” and labeled “transphobic” and “racist.” Worse, what if their children were bullied over these concerns, or treated unfairly by teachers who share similar progressive views? Those are legitimate concerns, and I was protecting my sources.
I also sent the questions to Eastern Principal Marc Guarino. Supranowitz later said he responds to all media inquiries on behalf of GPS employees and speaks for Principal Guarino. He still did not say whether the transgender flag, the BLM material, or the immigration sign are permitted.
The regulation Supranowitz eventually cited, 1311.2R, Political Activities in the Schools, says political activities on school grounds during school hours are restricted, that there should be no distribution of campaign literature for political purposes on school property, and that “no classroom should display political literature or signs of one party as a representation of an affiliation or affinity to one party.” It also limits the use of school resources to activities tied to curriculum.
What the regulation does not do is say whether a transgender pride flag, a BLM sign, or a “no one is illegal” poster counts as the political display it restricts. Those items are used as politics by one party. The district would not say whether they meet the test.
I told a friend connected to the Reese on the Radio show, who goes by Adam-12, that I could not get a yes or no. He contacted Supranowitz on September 29. He did not get an answer either. Supranowitz then wrote to me, sarcastically, that he had enjoyed his conversation with Adam. He added that he had given me many statements, that I did not like them, and that “That’s on you — not me.” He also thanked me for what he called an “endorsement” of his position.
I wrote back to clarify that I had sent a media inquiry, that his response was snarky and dismissive, and that a simple yes-or-no answer on whether the items may hang in a Greenwich middle school should not have been difficult. I told him it looked like he does not treat the media fairly, and that's on him.
I forwarded the whole thread to Superintendent Jones and the full Board of Education on September 29. I asked whether the district permits politically biased messaging that is not inclusive of everyone — a transgender pride flag, a BLM sign, and a “no one is illegal” sign — in Eastern Middle School. I said a simple yes or no would suffice, and that if the answer was yes, I wanted to know why the messaging tracks only one party’s politics.
It's been a full week, and no one replied. Not Jones. Not even a single board member.
I have to ask whether that treatment had anything to do with Greenwich Patriots, and with me in particular, having been one of the loudest critics of the district’s outrageous and unscientific COVID policies, and with Supranowitz having been the person in charge of COVID messaging.
Academic freedom, a controversial-issues policy, or a review of the rooms would each have been an answer to my original question. So would a citation to 1311.2R. Instead Supranowitz argued about how the question was asked while the Superintendent and the Board of Education completely ignored me.
When students are repeatedly exposed to classroom messaging that directly opposes their deeply held religious beliefs or family political values, it can create a distressing psychological barrier to learning. Rather than experiencing the classroom as a neutral, safe space for academic growth, students can feel alienated, excluded, and emotionally pressured to conform. The silent message conveyed by such displays is that those students' personal values—and by extension, they themselves—are unwelcome in their own school. A hostile environment can breed a culture of fear, forcing children to choose between hiding their personal beliefs to avoid getting ostracized by peers and graded poorly by certain teachers, or speaking out and risking public labeling and bullying.
And when school administrations, including Supranowitz, Superintendent Jones, and the Board of Education, refuse to clarify the boundaries, they effectively validate this exclusion, leaving certain students feeling invisible and unprotected by the institutions meant to serve them.
How hard would it be for the district to follow its very own code of conduct, and create an environment conducive to academic learning for ALL students?
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