Geography Teacher Suspended for Showing World Flags

Aug 25th, 2006 | By Frank | Category: Education, archive

A seventh grade geography teacher in Jefferson county Colorado was suspended for refusing to remove flags of nations from his classroom. Apparently Colorado has a state law the forbids displaying foreign flags unless they’re related to the curriculum at hand and temporary.

Gee, when I was in school they wanted you to actually know the flags. My how things have changed! If you’re in the Colorado area, I urge you to call your state represenatives about this issue. Banning flags in a geography class seems…. weird. Punishing a teacher for doing so seems down right stupid.

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  1. cotiniere August 27th, 2006 7:25 am

    It’s an absurd situation. I have a suggestion. What about no flags at all in school?

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