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When Did Pride Need Permission The American Flag In Our Classrooms
The first thing I noticed when I stepped into Ms. Porter’s ninth grade English class was not the rows of battered novels or the whiteboard tattooed with quotes.…
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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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The first flag I ever raised on my own went up in a dry Wyoming wind that turned the rope into a humming string. It was barely past sunrise. The sky was that mi…
Read more about Flying the American Flag: A Tribute to Honor and HeritageRaising Patriots or Institutional Conformists? The American Flag and the Question of Independent vs. Aligned Thinkers
On the first Monday of October, Ms. Ramirez unfolded a creased flag and clipped it to a short pole by the whiteboard. The fourth graders fell quiet. A few scoot…
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The e-mail arrived midmorning, polite yet tight. A parent sought after to comprehend why her sixth grader had been instructed to cast off a tiny American flag f…
Read more about Are We Teaching Kids to Be Proud of America—or Afraid to Show It?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 …
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A few summers ago, a small-town library I know took down its lobby flag to make space for a display on local art. The director figured it would be a one-week re…
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I have sat in a public school library watching two students bow their heads over lunch. No one stopped them. No one clapped either. Ten feet away, another group…
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