Posted on 08/23/2006 3:44:34 PM PDT by ncountylee
Then get a map ...
I would need to see a picture of how the flags were hung. If they were hung higher than ours or in a manner that could be considered not just respectful to those other countries, but representing loyalty to them that supercedes loyalty to the US, than I say they did the right thing. However, it's still possible that the principal was just being an ass.
you guys sound like the guys that Micael Moore shows in his movies...
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you watched a Michael Moore movie?
This is a different case.
> It's patently ridiculous that THIS is what they decide to enforce - it's a geography classroom, for cryin' out loud. As long as the American Flag is in the position of honor, I don't see any harm in hanging a row of foreign flags in a Geography classroom..
I have to agree. You can be against illegal immigration but still pro-information. It's good for kids to know what the flags are for countries that are constantly in the news.
Something seems to be unclear in the story. Did the teacher ONLY have flags of China and Mexico, or were other more friendly nations (Italy, England, etc) included? If it was ONLY China/Mexico, and this teacher has already approached the ACLU, then I'm thinking this was a liberal setup by the teacher from the get-go. There should be nothing wrong with displaying the flags of nations in a geography class, but it appears this teacher may have had other motives in mind.
What a stupid thing to fight over! Shame on that teacher, trying to do his job.
Had one get suspended here for burning flags in the classroom.
Something isn't quite right here. I wonder what's the "rest of the story?"
Yes, I think we probably need to know more about this. Having foreign flags is no problem - when I grew up in NYC, we often had flags of the countries the kids had come from hung around the walls - but it depends on the situation. In New York, it was simply to identify the many places the students had come from (such as Hungary, various Latin American countries, and French and British colonies in this hemisphere).
Since flags appropriate to the curriculum can be used here, one or more agendas must be working that are not disclosed in the story among the teacher, ACLU, administration and/or reporter.
....well, if he was burning the foreign flags the ACLU wouldn't get involved....
ok, theres lots of missing information here...
they said he had several flags hung, but later said he
refused to remove the flags of china and mexico.
sooooo did he have a collection and refuse to take down
those two in particular? did several flags mean he had
up just 3 ... u.s., mexico and china?
hard to really make a judgement without more detail.
with that said, for goodness sake, he is a geography
teacher! flags of nations around the world should
certainly be considered teaching aids.
now, the high school i graduated from, aka "the shopping
mall" (yes, it was that big!!!) had flags from every country
(i believe) hanging from the ceiling down the main corridor.
never were they taken down, never a problem with them
being there.
No... Id say it proves he has some backbone.
I see no harm in a geography classroom displaying world flag. Its not as if he was asking the students to pay obeisance to those flags.
This is the sort of idiocy that has people thinking Australia is in eastern europe.
The law is indeed stupid, and should probly be changed.
lol...
Yeah, I caught that, but a bit too late. The flag burner deserves to lose his job (for starting a fire in a classroom). Displaying the flags of other countries in a classroom where the geography of the world is taught and being suspended or fired for it is lunacy.
I have the kids complete a project on the individual state of our country. They draw flags of their states along with researching and reporting on historic aspects of their state. As a culminating activity I allow the kids to make a cookie in the shape of their state.. LOL you should see the kids asking for Texas, Alaska, and California.
After the cafeteria ladies bake the cookies for us, I allow the kids to decorate the state by adding chocolate chip cookies to represent mountains, blue icing to represent rivers and lakes , and coconut flakes to show snow.
The yummy way to learn geography.
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