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Private Belief or Public Identity: How Should Faith Be Treated Under the First Amendment?
A few years ago I sat with a principal and a soccer coach in a small Midwestern town, puzzling through a problem that sounded simple and turned complex fast. A …
Read more about Private Belief or Public Identity: How Should Faith Be Treated Under the First Amendment?Why Are American Flags Removed While Others Are Encouraged?
Walk a top college hallway and you may see a quiet referendum on identity. Pride flags on a counselor’s door. A navy service banner tacked above a locker. A sch…
Read more about Why Are American Flags Removed While Others Are Encouraged?Is Silence About Country and Faith a Coincidence—or a Shift in Direction for the USA Flag?
I have worked with schools, cities, and companies for two decades on symbols and speech: flags, murals, mottos, holiday displays, even the order of items on a l…
Read more about Is Silence About Country and Faith a Coincidence—or a Shift in Direction for the USA Flag?Who Raises Citizens—Parents or Schools? The US Flag Debate
A middle school principal once told me that the hardest decision she made had nothing to do with test scores or hiring. It was a flag. The school had always dis…
Read more about Who Raises Citizens—Parents or Schools? The US Flag DebateWhy Does Flying One Flag Ignite Outrage In Modern America
I have stood in front of a classroom where a single flag pinned to a corkboard felt heavier than a textbook cart. The students were the same ones who traded gum…
Read more about Why Does Flying One Flag Ignite Outrage In Modern AmericaWho Decides Which Flags Are Acceptable A Look At School Policies
Walk into any American school and you can read the culture from the walls. A United States flag in the front of a classroom. A student’s backpack with a Pride p…
Read more about Who Decides Which Flags Are Acceptable A Look At School PoliciesIdentity Or Ideology Who Chooses Which Flags Matter
The first time I watched a flag start a fight, it wasn’t the Stars and Stripes. It was a small sticker on a laptop in a high school library, a striped square in…
Read more about Identity Or Ideology Who Chooses Which Flags MatterStars, Stripes, and School Policy: When Values Conflict, Who Should Have the Final Say—Parents or Educators?
At a school board meeting in a town where everyone knows the color of the football field’s bleachers, I watched two neighbors argue about a library book neither…
Read more about Stars, Stripes, and School Policy: When Values Conflict, Who Should Have the Final Say—Parents or Educators?