[Colonel Kangaroo]

I’ve seen Confederate flags displayed by individuals in several non-Confederate states, including not only border states which sided with the Union, but even in northern New England, the hotbed of anti-slavery feeling, where statues of Union soldiers stand in many public places.

That's true, but it seems grotesque to me that a region that was not only non-Confederate, but was so bitterly anti-Confederate that it was long a Republican safe region, should be so soon so ignorant of the past. I guess that's just more evidence of the work of the public schools.

[puroresu]

The kid regards it as a symbol of the South, not one of the county. Sure, there were individual counties throughout the South where most people opposed secession, particularly in East Tennessee. But it would be kind of nitpicky to go through each county's history and say, okay, this county wanted to secede so it's historically accurate for a kid here to want to wear a Rebel Flag, but this county didn't want to secede so kids here are ignorant if they wear the flag.

Dress codes are fine as long as they're fair and equally enforced. We know that in the real PC world that won't be likely, though.

I guess that's just more evidence of the work of the public schools.

Most public schools teach kids that the Confederates were the bad guys, if not pure evil. They plant reparations ideas in the little kiddies heads from their elementary years with constant dwelling on slaveryslaveryslaveryslavery....More kids probably know who Harriet Tubman was than Madison, Jefferson, FDR, or Eisenhower.

If the public schools were totally succeeding on this issue, no kid in America would want anything to do with a Rebel Flag.