[frankiep]

Besides, who needs a foreign flag to learn where that country is, what they do, etc.?

Exactly. Also, who needs to know what nouns, verbs, and pronouns are and how they are used to be able to speak? Who needs to know the table of the elements to get a job? Who needs to how to determine the circumfrence of a circle, or the area of a rectangle to budget their money?

Come on, you can't be serious. I hope you don't think that kids learning the flags of at least some other countries (especially major ones) is somehow taboo. That's the kind of mentality that produces ignorant, altogether stupid high school graduates.

[LasVegasMac]

Come on, you can't be serious. I hope you don't think that kids learning the flags of at least some other countries (especially major ones) is somehow taboo. That's the kind of mentality that produces ignorant, altogether stupid high school graduates.

Ease up, skippy.

When we studied Rome, I don't recall the teacher having a friggin' chariot in the classroom. But I knew what one was. What it looked like. And what it was used for.

Maybe you missed that neat little invention called a.....

Book.

You know...pictures....words....etc.

So you think kids have to have the flag actually in their classroom to get that "learning" experience?

That's the kind of mentality that does not even deserve discussion.

Are you a teacher, by chance?

[publana]

Come on, you can't be serious. I hope you don't think that kids learning the flags of at least some other countries (especially major ones) is somehow taboo. That's the kind of mentality that produces ignorant, altogether stupid high school graduates.

Amen. As seen by some of the posts on this thread