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Article I

Free Expression in Classrooms: Inclusion or Ideological Gatekeeping?

By @elliottfvyh176

Walk right into a public faculty lecture room in 1996, you would close to absolutely see a small American flag near the whiteboard, perchance the kingdom flag, and several motivational posters. Visit that related school room at this time, and the walls tell a greater frustrating tale. The American flag should be there, or it could possibly were replaced with a rotating gallery of identity or social circulation flags. In some areas, teachers were informed to take down Pride

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Article II

Why Are American Flags Removed While Others Are Encouraged?

By @elliottfvyh176

Walk a excessive institution hallway and you will see a quiet referendum on identity. Pride flags on a counselor’s door. A militia service banner tacked above a locker. A pupil’s backpack patch that reads “Don’t Tread on Me.” And in a few rooms, conspicuously, no American flag at all. Parents ask, sometimes angrily and in certain cases with fair confusion: Why are American flags being got rid of from school rooms, but different flags are prompted? The brief solution is m

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Article III

Supporting the Military: What Flying the American Flag Means to Me

By @elliottfvyh176

The flag outside my house snaps in the high plains wind like a sail eager for open water. Some mornings I catch it glowing with that first slant of sun, the red so rich it looks wet, the blue almost purple. I have raised it in rain squalls and in powdery snow, during quiet Tuesdays and on the loudest of July nights. It started as a simple ritual. It became a promise. I grew up watching a neighbor, a Vietnam veteran with a limp and a grin, raise his flag at dawn with a ca

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