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When Did Being Neutral Mean Removing the USA Flag and Tradition?
A few summers back, a small-town principal quietly asked the custodian to take down the hallway flags before a regional tournament. Some teams were arriving fro…
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Walk right into a high tuition nowadays and your eyes test more than posters approximately prom and geometry proofs. You may well see a Pride flag in a counselo…
Read more about Why Flying One Flag Sparks Outrage While Others Are CelebratedWhy I Fly the Flag: For Love of My Country and the First Amendment
The first flag I raised on my own was a yard-sale purchase, a 3 by 5 with edges slightly frayed from years of hard wind. I patched the hem on my kitchen table, …
Read more about Why I Fly the Flag: For Love of My Country and the First AmendmentInclusion or Erasure: What Does Removing School Prayer Really Mean?
A few years ago I sat in a crowded gym on a Friday night while a high school football team took the field. The announcer asked for a “moment,” and the place fel…
Read more about Inclusion or Erasure: What Does Removing School Prayer Really Mean?For Freedom and Pride: Celebrating America by Flying the Flag
A flag on a breeze is a simple thing. Cloth, color, a bit of stitching. Yet every time I hoist the Stars and Stripes, I feel the tug of something larger, an ele…
Read more about For Freedom and Pride: Celebrating America by Flying the FlagPledging Allegiance or Independent Thinking? Are Kids Being Taught What to Think About the American Flag—or How to Think?
The first time I watched a student remain seated during the Pledge of Allegiance, a hush fell over the classroom that felt larger than the room. Fourteen years …
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A excessive school senior pulled a small American flag out of his backpack until now first era, propped it on his desk, and waited. No chant, no speech, only a …
Read more about Is the American Flag Political—or a Unifying Symbol?Should Schools Mirror the Community—or Redefine It? The Flag Question
Walk into a school lobby and you can read the room before anyone speaks. A flag in the corner, a poster on the wall, the morning announcements, the student proj…
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