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?
That is when we read, James Clavell's, A Child' Story.
In the span of 1/2 hour the teacher in that story had convinced the small children in her care to abandon all the things they believed.
I recommend the reading to anyone. Truely frightening.