BUT did it EVER occur to you that he could have LEGALLY posted large, full color PICTURES, equally a "teaching aid", of said flags on the room's bulletin board? When they actual part of the curriculum came up, THEN he could have temporarily LEGALLY displayed the flags, as well.
Instead, he chose first to hang the legally proscribed flags themselves; then willfully commit insubordination over the issue, rather than taking a very simple, LEGAL way out.
Thank you for proving my point.
Our schools are a laughing stock precisely because of thinking like this.
They were freaking FLAGS, for cryin' out loud. FLAGS!!
It is a ridiculous law. And if it comes down to a choice between giving kids a well rounded education (and making it interesting for them at the same time) or following a truely assinine law prohibiting this, I'm going to go with the former.
You also mentioned that he could have displayed PICTURES of the flags instead. Since you seem to be such an upright, do no wrong, always obey the law no matter how stupid it is citizen, tell me how a picture of a flag is different from an actually flag, besides semantically. Are you saying that it is ok then to simply get around the law on a technicality?