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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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To: lowbridge

Some words and thoughts are deemed “offensive” by the Perpetually Offended Squad, so let’s ban all words while we are at it.


41 posted on 08/23/2015 4:42:01 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: lowbridge
Finding a History book with no flags in it will be a challenge.

My favorite class of honors kids would've alternate red and white shirts in their rows, and the kids in the back corner would wear blue. They were a solid team. I am confident that they are great places in the world already.

42 posted on 08/23/2015 4:45:24 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: lowbridge

CWII edges closer, day by day.


43 posted on 08/23/2015 4:53:04 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: 4integrity
"Agree....and their parents should accompany them to school and also carry a US Flag! Enough!"

Exactly. What is needed is for 200 parents and their children to show up with the American flag, storm the administrative offices, and say, "Enough is enough."
44 posted on 08/23/2015 4:54:53 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: DesertRhino

When I was a kid, who would have ever thought that “Christmas” would be a bad word in public places, prayer outlawed in public school, Christians forced to hold their tongues, and faggots would run wild?


45 posted on 08/23/2015 5:05:40 PM PDT by LouAvul (Adios America. We hardly knew ye.)
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To: DesertRhino

Sort of reminds me of my childhood doctor. He was a POW in a Nazi prison camp. He and his comrades made and stitched together a homemade American flag, keeping it constantly hidden from the eyes of the guards, lest they suffer severe punishment if not outright execution. He was the keeper of the flag. When the camp was liberated by the Allies, he reportedly climbed up and raised it on the camp’s flagpole.

I’m just envisioning these students now getting a little taste of that sort of thing, right on our American soil. Pretty unthinkable, just a few years back. But that was when America was still America, not this current insane, pathetic, PC-cowed travesty of a country.


46 posted on 08/23/2015 5:13:52 PM PDT by greene66
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To: sparklite2

Patriotism isn’t taught in most schools today, just the opposite. But they, the school leaders think they are the all-sufficient benefactors who have authority to control all aspects of students’ lives.


47 posted on 08/23/2015 6:01:27 PM PDT by TurkeyLurkey
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To: Moorings

“School leaders said there is a right and wrong way to show American pride.”

School leaders are obviously saying that to display the American Flag is the wrong way to show American pride, so what’s the proper way? Because some want to show Southern Pride they are going to also banish American pride. I guess mexican pride, islamic pride, and black lives matter are okay. I’ve done business and deer hunted in Dickson County and I doubt I’ve ever known anyone there that would approve of this crap.


48 posted on 08/23/2015 6:58:25 PM PDT by duffee (No money to the Mississippi Republican Party as long as joe nosef is chairman)
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To: lowbridge

More and more people just need their asses kicked.


49 posted on 08/23/2015 7:16:20 PM PDT by sgtyork (Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy)
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To: WKUHilltopper

Only if they are the village idiots. Our fore fathers would be shooting by now.


50 posted on 08/23/2015 10:13:52 PM PDT by Conservative4Ever (ENOUGH!! Man the pitch forks and torches...let the revolution begin!!!)
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To: hosepipe

you know the easiest way to solve this problem. Just ban the students /s, then no conflicts.


51 posted on 08/23/2015 10:15:53 PM PDT by Nailbiter
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To: lowbridge

All members of the school’s sports teams (football, basketball, baseball, etc.) plus cheerleaders and student council should take flags to school.

It seems most school principals/administrators are total dunces nowadays.


52 posted on 08/23/2015 10:19:10 PM PDT by octex
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To: elpadre

The same for teachers; what is happening is that those who were “educated” in the flawed system are now running it. I respect teachers, if they are over 60 years old; otherwise, they aren’t much brighter (or more mature) than their students.

FWIW, I’m in my mid-forties.


53 posted on 08/24/2015 3:48:56 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: wardaddy

They probably will...but right now they are too busy sticking their heads up Mike “Looney”’s ass.


54 posted on 08/24/2015 12:51:25 PM PDT by Fledermaus (To hell with the Republican Party. I'm done with them. If I want a Lib Dem I'd vote for one.)
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To: Fledermaus

He’s a sorry excuse for an inactive Marine


55 posted on 08/24/2015 1:13:00 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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