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Colorado School Comes Under Fire for Hanging Saudi Flag Higher Than American Flag
FoxNews ^ | September 05, 2011

Posted on 09/05/2011 9:53:21 AM PDT by Steelfish

Colorado School Comes Under Fire for Hanging Saudi Flag Higher Than American Flag September 05, 2011

An elementary school in Colorado has come under criticism after they lowered the American flag and elevated a Saudi Arabian flag. The principal at Bauder Elementary School in Fort Collins said they did not mean to disrespect the American flag, according to a report in the Greeley Gazzette.

Principal Brian Carpenter told the newspaper that the American flag was immediately returned to its proper and prominent position at the school. He explained that other flags are posted around the school to recognize the nationalities of students from other countries.

A photograph showing the raised Saudi flag alongside the lowered American flag was first posted on the Greeley Report, a local blog. It generated lots of local debate. “We realize this is an extremely sensitive time with us getting close to the 10th anniversary of 9/11," Carpenter told the Gazzette.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: arth; bauderelementary; briancarpenter; saudiflag; usflag
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To: Steelfish
WTF Why even raise any flag other than the U.S. flag. That's like these jerks that fly the Mexican flag!!! If Mexico is so great what are they doing in The U.S.A.? Go to Wal-Mart and see how many don't speak English. I say if you can't speak the language get out of the country.
21 posted on 09/05/2011 10:49:44 AM PDT by jarofants
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To: Mouton

I’d have done what the Egyptian did to the Israeli flag. Torn it down.


22 posted on 09/05/2011 10:50:57 AM PDT by Shimmer1 (To sin by silence when we should protest, makes cowards of men)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice
Know of anyplace to purchase Saudi flag toilet paper? My oldest basset is starting to need a little help.

I prefer Koranic toilet paper.

Pisses off the most jihadis for the buck.

23 posted on 09/05/2011 10:54:50 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: Steelfish
Seems to me that Principal Brian Carpenter is not educated enough to be a “Principal”.
24 posted on 09/05/2011 11:00:00 AM PDT by Chgogal (WSJ, Krauthammer, Rove et. al., STFU. Thank you.)
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To: Kakaze
Yep. Quite intentional.


25 posted on 09/05/2011 11:00:46 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: Steelfish

My company being an international concern HQ’d in Canada, both national flags are displayed. In the U.S, ours is discernibly higher; in Canadian offices, their protocols govern. It only shows the proper respect.

To do anything else, particularly at a governmental entity, smacks of a deliberate (un-American) agenda...


26 posted on 09/05/2011 11:06:12 AM PDT by mikrofon (Happy Labo[u]r Day)
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To: justiceseeker93

So the American students are from another country? Are these the states-rights nuts that hang out in the hills of Colorado?


27 posted on 09/05/2011 11:11:05 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

One could almost say Old Glory is “bowing” to the Saudi rag....


28 posted on 09/05/2011 11:11:44 AM PDT by mikrofon (Hmmm, Hmmm, Hmmm)
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To: Steelfish

LOL, check out this tard’s blog:

http://principalcarpenter.posterous.com/

“Universal breakfast”, what a twit.


29 posted on 09/05/2011 11:13:18 AM PDT by Baladas ((ABBHO))
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To: Steelfish; 2Jedismom; 6amgelsmama; AAABEST; aberaussie; Aggie Mama; agrace; AliVeritas; AlmaKing; ..

ANOTHER REASON TO HOMESCHOOL

This ping list is for the “other” articles of interest to homeschoolers about education and public school. This can occasionally be a fairly high volume list. Articles pinged to the Another Reason to Homeschool List will be given the keyword of ARTH. (If I remember. If I forget, please feel free to add it yourself)

The main Homeschool Ping List handles the homeschool-specific articles. I hold both the Homeschool Ping List and the Another Reason to Homeschool Ping list. Please freepmail me to let me know if you would like to be added to or removed from either list, or both.

30 posted on 09/05/2011 11:35:47 AM PDT by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: TigersEye

CO ping.


31 posted on 09/05/2011 11:37:41 AM PDT by pandoraou812 (I have a very firm grasp on reality! I can reach out and strangle it any time!)
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To: Steelfish

how many of those hijackers were Saudi again??

The principal should be fired for general stupidity


32 posted on 09/05/2011 11:40:04 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: unixfox

I’d bury him up to his neck in Korans and pelt him with horse manure. Two birds - one stone.


33 posted on 09/05/2011 11:40:23 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: Steelfish
I thought when they said Colorado School Comes Under Fire they meant Columbine II

If there was ever a reason for a bloody rampage...

34 posted on 09/05/2011 11:43:22 AM PDT by bigheadfred (But alas)
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To: Baladas
LOL, check out this tard’s blog

Sept. 19, no school......its Collaboration day.

Bowed flag, collaboration day, no better place to hide, then in plain sight.

35 posted on 09/05/2011 11:46:29 AM PDT by Kakaze (Exterminate Islamofacism and apologize for nothing....except not doing it sooner!)
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To: justiceseeker93
should be on a legal pathway to American citizenship as a requirement to attend an American public school

There is no such requirement, I wish there were.

In San Diego and El Paso and other cities there are buses that pick up Mexican kids at border crossings so they can attend US schools and go home after school.

Most school districts will not reject illegal aliens at all when they apply.

36 posted on 09/05/2011 11:59:04 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: Steelfish

Public School.


37 posted on 09/05/2011 12:20:42 PM PDT by usslsm51
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To: GeronL
There is no such requirement, I wish there were.

Yes, I'm aware of that. Picking up Mexican kids at the border to go to American schools is particularly obnoxious. Displaying Mexican flags in those American schools adds insult to injury, especially when you consider who is paying for these Mexican kids' education.

38 posted on 09/05/2011 12:33:23 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: justiceseeker93

Meanwhile you’d go to jail if you sent your kids to a better school across town.


39 posted on 09/05/2011 12:45:10 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: Ax

Hope you didn’t buy it.


40 posted on 09/05/2011 1:07:57 PM PDT by DWC (historian)
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