Reply #45: One Freeper blames it on the "liberal, nanny state".

[tanyev]

But it is still beyond stupid to say that this DECADES OLD practice - of hanging foreign flags in American public schools' Geography classrooms - should be "illegal". This is common sense, and the reaction fits in perfectly with the "zero tolerance" insanity that is pervading our public schools today.

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Gangster punk with Switchblade knife in boot? Expel him.

Honor students returning butter knife to school band hall? Expel him.

Mexican students hoisting the Mexican flag on the school flagpole? Ban it.

Geography teacher diplaying the flags of the world in the classroom? Ban it.

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That's the kind of liberal, nanny state thinking that is destroying American public education.

I propose that the principal is the one making a federal case out of this - and not for patriotic reasons. The principal might even be working with the ACLU as well - they have done this kind of thing before.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1688892/posts?q=1&&page=101

Quite a few contortions in that line of thinking. :eyes: