This is the fourth year Hamlin has worked within the Jeffco School District,
and he said he's hung the flags every year without a problem.
This is his first year at Carmody Middle School.
citing a Colorado law that makes it illegal to display foreign flags permanently in schools
Here's the way it works. The LEGISLATURE decides what laws to pass, not this (undoubtedly leftwing) teacher. The teacher is free to lobby for a change in law, if he wishes. If he chooses civil disobedience, as he apparently has here in what is undoubtedly a political stunt (probably at the behest of the ACLU), then he has no basis to complain when he is fired.
So for those of you who back the teacher, how does that work out for you when you, say, get a speeding ticket? Or decide not to pay your taxes? Do you whine and moan, saying since you personally don't agree with the law, it's unfair for the government to enforce it against you?
*SNIP*
He’s used the same display for most of the nine years he’s taught in Jefferson County, Hamlin said.
The foreign flags are in addition to the standard U.S. flag found in all classrooms.
Hamlin said principal John Schalk escorted him from the building Thursday before classes began. He was handed a letter saying the matter is under investigation and warning him to remain off school property.
Jeffco Public Schools spokeswoman Lynn Setzer said Schalk believed Hamlin was in violation of a state law on display of foreign flags on public property.
Schalk interprets the law as allowing foreign flags as part of a specific lesson, but not for the duration of the six-week unit.
Hamlin has more than 50 flags that he uses during the course of the year. He asks students to consider the symbolism different countries put on their flags, such as the stars and stripes on the U.S. flag.
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/education/article/0,1299,DRMN_957_4939458,00.html
I got suspended once for hanging a.... oh, fLag, never mind.
"It's much along the lines of a science teacher who puts up a map of the solar sysem.
I wish the company I work at would stop honoring communism, and take down the gigantic Chinese flag in the hallway...Of course, I also wish they they'd take down the "gay pride" posters as well.
"a Colorado law that makes it illegal to display foreign flags permanently in schools"
What a stupid and pointless law.
I'm glad to see that hack legislators have solved the rest of the state's issues that they saw fit to tackle this "problem".
Far easier to solve phantom problems than real ones.
Sad how many sheeple fall for it.