[ncountylee]

Hamlin said he understands that the district is following state law so he's met with the ACLU and he said, if necessary, he plans on fighting the constitutionality of the law.

Looks like nothing but an ACLU set up.

[Dog Gone]

Sounds like the law of unintended consequences. I'm guessing the law was to prevent teachers from hanging the Mexican flag permanently in the classroom where they taught biology.

However, the teacher was given the opportunity to remove the flags and chose to be suspended instead, which proves he's too stupid to be a teacher.

[dandelion]

Okay, I'm all for hanging the American Flag - it's out on my front porch EVERY DAY since the 2000 election. And my daughter's in the military, so I'm totally behind any patriotic display...

but foreign flags are routinely used in Geography classrooms. ALWAYS HAVE BEEN since I can remember - and I remember back to the 1960s. This has everything to do with the class, and it better be in the curriculum - so why on EARTH would they suddenly decide to be "politically incorrect" NOW? Don't they have some "day of silence" lessons to go conduct, or a protest to attend, or something else equally liberal?

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...

[operation clinton cleanup]

Don't his textbooks have pictures of flags? I learned about other countries flags through the encyclopedia... before the Internet.

[DTogo]

Heaven forbid American children should be able to identify foreign flags, know where Iraq or China are on a map, and maybe someday learn a foreign language.

[SoldierDad]

Let's see. Geography class. Geography is learning about foriegn countries as well as our own. Go figure that flags of other nations would come into play.

[mkjessup]

Hey I've got no problem with the teacher hanging flags of China (Communist RED China as it used to be called) and Mexico, after all:

Aren't those two of the nations that we're being sold out to?

[ConservativeMind]

We had a teacher in high school who had flags of other countries, along with ours, in his classroom.

It caused a ruckus with some, but I had no problem with it.

I figured the American flag dominated all of them, regardless of how many others were shown.

[old and tired]

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.

[Azzurri]

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.

[TASMANIANRED]

Had one get suspended here for burning flags in the classroom.

[ViLaLuz]

Something isn't quite right here. I wonder what's the "rest of the story?"

[colorado tanker]

There must really be a "rest of the story" here. My daughter attends a school that I guess had better be nameless that has all kinds of foreign flags displayed, which, IMHO fits in nicely with their curriculum.

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.

[Tzimisce]

....well, if he was burning the foreign flags the ACLU wouldn't get involved....

[leda]

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.

[Dane]

This is tom tancredo country, so I'm not surprised at the paranoia of foreign flags in a geography class.

Overkill IMO, unless you are tom tancredo and think looking at this flag
automatically makes you a ferrigner lover.

[SoftballMominVA]

WOW! My daughter's school has about 30 flags hanging in the cafeteria. They represent the different countries of the kids that attend there and those that have participated in exchange programs.

Guess they would be in violation of all kinds of laws huh?

[KellyAdmirer]

There's nothing wrong with the law, and it should be enforced. There is too much potential for abuse. Any Marxist so-and-so teacher could put the flags of Cuba and China behind his desk for the entire school year, and nothing could be done about it. And perhaps he could throw in the Communist Workers Song before class every day, too, just to hammer the point home. This is the land of Ward Churchill we are talking about, folks.

You don't need to "display" flags to learn about them. That is only one method that is possible. There are things known as textbooks, and they have pictures, and the pictures can be of flags.

[durasell]

GLOBAL HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA PING!


Oh wait, never mind.

[shield]

What a creepy loon. If he's in such favor of China or Mexico...someone needs to buy him a 1 way ticket and let him live there. Let him teach those kids...we do not need this fool in a classroom.

If you can't follow the school districts rules....you're out.