After a Natrona County High School senior said her First Amendment rights were potentially being infringed upon for trying to start a club affiliated with Turning Point USA, the state’s top education official –- who is a fellow alum – backed her publicly on Thursday.

Superintendent of Public Instruction Megan Degenfelder issued an official Wyoming Department of Education statement Thursday, in which she said she stands with 17-year old Natrona County High School student Kylie Wall “and with any student in Wyoming who wants to learn and engage civically and thoughtfully.”

“Our administrators and teachers must foster environments that are safe for ideas and debate, not closed classrooms where only certain viewpoints are tolerated,” Degenfelder wrote.

The superintendent’s comments Thursday

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