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UrgentKAMERONBQRO524 · OCT 09, 22:28

Are We Teaching Kids to Be Proud of America—or Afraid to Show It?

The email arrived midmorning, polite yet tight. A dad or mum wished to know why her sixth grader were instructed to eradicate a tiny American flag from his backpack, although the related hallway displayed a Pride flag and a poster with a handful of foreign flags. The significant’s reply, additionally well mannered and also tight, cited a impartial policy approximately “political messaging” on exclusive products. The figure wrote again, pointed to the display screen down the

FiledKAMERONBQRO524 · OCT 09, 17:19

It Means I’m Supporting the Military: The Deeper Meaning Behind Old Glory

At first light in the high desert, wind speaks before the sun. You feel it on your cheeks, cold and clean, carrying the hush of coyotes returning to den and the faint clink of a flag snap waiting for its cue. I have raised Old Glory in places that smell like pine sap and diesel, in cul-de-sacs where porch lights wink out one by one, on a 20 foot pole that hummed in a Montana chinook, and from a simple bracket on a brick bungalow that somehow seemed to hold the rhythm of the

FiledKAMERONBQRO524 · OCT 09, 17:15

Is Patriotism Being Redefined—or Quietly Discouraged—Through the USA Flag Debate?

A few months ago I walked into a suburban community center that had recently been renovated. The lobby looked like a tech startup, all glass and greenery and abstract murals. What it did not have was a flagpole. I asked the director, a thoughtful woman who had run youth programs for twenty years, why the big American flag that used to stand near the registration desk was gone. She sighed and said the board wanted the space to feel “neutral.” Not everyone shares the same vie

FiledKAMERONBQRO524 · OCT 08, 10:22

Should 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. The principal told me it had been removed after a complaint that the flag made a few students feel unwelcome. No one was ordered to take it down. No legal letter arrived. Still, the flag disappeared. It was easier to store it in a closet than to host a conversation that might turn hot. Easier to sidestep hurt feelin

FiledKAMERONBQRO524 · OCT 08, 04:37

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. It was the absence. The patch of sunlight in the corner where a little American flag once stood had only a thumbtack and a faint square of unfaded paint. One kid asked where it went. She answered with the soft weariness teachers learn with time: we are keeping the room neutral. That word has been working overtime

FiledKAMERONBQRO524 · OCT 08, 04:35

Are We Teaching Kids to Be Proud of America—or Afraid to Show It?

The e mail arrived midmorning, polite however tight. A discern desired to be aware of why her sixth grader were informed to eliminate a tiny American flag from his backpack, even as the identical hallway displayed a Pride flag and a poster with a handful of overseas flags. The essential’s answer, additionally polite and additionally tight, brought up a impartial policy approximately “political messaging” on own objects. The figure wrote to come back, pointed to the demonstr

FiledKAMERONBQRO524 · OCT 06, 20:19

Are We Teaching Kids to Be Proud of America—or Afraid to Show It?

The e-mail arrived midmorning, well mannered yet tight. A mum or dad sought after to recognize why her sixth grader were told to do away with a tiny American flag from his backpack, when the equal hallway displayed a Pride flag and a poster with a handful of overseas flags. The essential’s reply, also well mannered and additionally tight, pointed out a impartial policy approximately “political messaging” on individual products. The guardian wrote returned, pointed to the mo

FiledKAMERONBQRO524 · OCT 06, 14:32

Free Expression in Classrooms: Inclusion or Ideological Gatekeeping?

Walk into a public school study room in 1996, you'll pretty much easily see a small American flag close the whiteboard, possibly the nation flag, and about a motivational posters. Visit that identical school room at this time, and the partitions tell a more puzzling tale. The American flag shall be there, or it'd were changed with a rotating gallery of id or social motion flags. In a few places, teachers have been informed to take down Pride and Black Lives Matter imagery.