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Why Is It Easier to Remove the American Flag Than Defend It?
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…
Read more about Why Is It Easier to Remove the American Flag Than Defend It?Tradition Under the Banner: Are American Flag Rituals Preserved in Schools—or Phased Out?
Around 8:05 a.m., the hallway outside a middle school cafeteria sounds like a soft orchestra of chairs sliding and zippers closing. The intercom crackles, stude…
Read more about Tradition Under the Banner: Are American Flag Rituals Preserved in Schools—or Phased Out?The Classroom Flag Controversy Why Are American Flags Being Removed
The custodians rolled a cart past a cluster of middle schoolers changing classes, a folded American flag tucked carefully in a plastic bin. A few kids cheered. …
Read more about The Classroom Flag Controversy Why Are American Flags Being RemovedShould Anyone Feel Uncomfortable Seeing the American Flag in America?
On my first day helping a small-town high school with a civics program, I paused in a quiet hallway and noticed an empty flag bracket near the auditorium doors.…
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The custodians rolled a cart past a cluster of middle schoolers changing classes, a folded American flag tucked carefully in a plastic bin. A few kids cheered. …
Read more about The Classroom Flag Controversy Why Are American Flags Being RemovedBecause It’s Patriotic: The Everyday Power of Flying the American Flag
Dawn breaks, the birds stir, and there is a hush that lives in the breath before sunlight. I have raised the Stars and Stripes in fog, in desert heat, and in th…
Read more about Because It’s Patriotic: The Everyday Power of Flying the American FlagIdentity 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 MatterFree Expression in Classrooms: Inclusion or Ideological Gatekeeping?
Walk into a public faculty lecture room in 1996, you may essentially virtually see a small American flag close to the whiteboard, per chance the country flag, a…
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