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Tennessee school district bans all flags, including Old Glory
myfoxmemphis.com ^ | august 23, 2015

Posted on 08/23/2015 3:13:19 PM PDT by lowbridge

School leaders in Dickson County decided, after a summer of controversy surrounding the confederate flag, the wise thing to do would be to ban all flags and banners.

Some students are angry as they feel their patriotism is being compromised.

School leaders said there is a right and wrong way to show American pride:

"It's not an unpatriotic act by any means because we have a number of ways in which students do learn how to be patriotic and express American pride."

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Students said they were told they would get kicked out if they bring an American flag onto school property.

(Excerpt) Read more at myfoxmemphis.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: dixie; education; flags; oldglory; purge; schoolboard; tennessee
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1 posted on 08/23/2015 3:13:20 PM PDT by lowbridge
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Well that’s certainly is a solution to a crisis that doesn’t exist.


2 posted on 08/23/2015 3:14:34 PM PDT by x1stcav
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To: lowbridge

Like you’ve got to be taught to be patriotic?


3 posted on 08/23/2015 3:15:16 PM PDT by TurkeyLurkey
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I noticed a week or so back that a little kid who was competing on Jeopardy, had a tiny U.S. Flag pin on his coat.

I was surprised they allowed it. He won too.


4 posted on 08/23/2015 3:16:05 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: lowbridge
 
 
Article sure is short on details - "school leaders", such as who - the paid employees or the elected board. Either way, the next school board meeting needs to have a lot of guests show up.
 
 

5 posted on 08/23/2015 3:18:15 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: lowbridge
School leaders said there is a right and wrong way to show American pride.

And who decides which way is the right way?

6 posted on 08/23/2015 3:19:18 PM PDT by Moorings
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To: lowbridge
ban guns, ban flags, ban intelligence, ban teachers wirk day...

Who's running that place Maynard G. KREBS.. for christ's sake?..


7 posted on 08/23/2015 3:19:38 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: TurkeyLurkey

If your parent(s) be gimmedats,
you ain’t getting patriotism at home.
Might as well get it at school.
Sort of like a free meal program,
except you might actually need it.


8 posted on 08/23/2015 3:19:45 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Voting is acting white.)
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Who ever thought that an American flag would be something to sneak onto a school grounds, surreptitiously, like a secret identity token of a resistance member?


9 posted on 08/23/2015 3:19:47 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but comSUrfmunists just ran for office)
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To: x1stcav

From the article:

“Students said they were told they would get kicked out if they bring an American flag onto school property.”

From x1stcav:
“Well that’s certainly is a solution to a crisis that doesn’t exist.”

I have a solution! Declare it Flag Day: Part Deux and have every student bring at least on US flag with them to school.


10 posted on 08/23/2015 3:21:22 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: lapsus calami

If they show up with confederate flags,
whatcha gonna do then? Remember, this
is Tennessee, not Vermont.


11 posted on 08/23/2015 3:21:25 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Voting is acting white.)
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To: DesertRhino
"...like a secret identity token of a resistance member?"


12 posted on 08/23/2015 3:23:19 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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13 posted on 08/23/2015 3:23:32 PM PDT by austinaero
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...we have a number of ways in which students do learn how to be patriotic and express American pride.

Why don't they stick to teaching Math, Science, Language e.t.c. instead of teaching how to be patriotic? I can only imagine what stupidity these people will come up with. Another opportunity to brainwash the kids to be lefties.

14 posted on 08/23/2015 3:23:43 PM PDT by Moorings
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To: Jack Hydrazine; lapsus calami

Time for some civil disobedience to counter this nonsense.


15 posted on 08/23/2015 3:23:50 PM PDT by x1stcav
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To: lowbridge

Well then the US taxdollars that flow their direction should be stopped.


16 posted on 08/23/2015 3:23:58 PM PDT by austinaero
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To: sparklite2

How about everyone show up with a US flag, a Confederate flag, and an Israeli flag?

That triple shot will give them an apoplectic conniption fit!

Triple shots aren’t just for coffee anymore!


17 posted on 08/23/2015 3:25:10 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: lowbridge

This is actually good. Now the only way to rebel against the authority is to secretly wear or bring a flag. Like a parent telling a daughter to stay away from a certain boy. Now the district has made the US flag the forbidden fruit.

That said, no sane parent would send a kid to school there.


18 posted on 08/23/2015 3:25:59 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but comSUrfmunists just ran for office)
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To: lowbridge

Idiots

Yet Rutherford which is much more yankee said CSA FLAG stays


19 posted on 08/23/2015 3:28:13 PM PDT by wardaddy (My ears are bleeding....FOX ..all I hear are shrill high pitched whiney women taking over each other)
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To: lowbridge

Wait ‘til someone takes exception to the Mexican flag...


20 posted on 08/23/2015 3:29:08 PM PDT by Ready4Freddy
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