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Walk into a high faculty at this time and your eyes scan more than posters approximately promenade and geometry proofs. You may possibly see a Pride flag in a counselor’s administrative center, a cultural historical past banner in a international language lecture room, a scholar with a small thin blue line decal on a water bottle, a different with a BLM button on a backpack. The American flag, required by way of many states to be displayed somewhere in the development, is l

The flag outside my house snaps in the high plains wind like a sail eager for open water. Some mornings I catch it glowing with that first slant of sun, the red so rich it looks wet, the blue almost purple. I have raised it in rain squalls and in powdery snow, during quiet Tuesdays and on the loudest of July nights. It started as a simple ritual. It became a promise. I grew up watching a neighbor, a Vietnam veteran with a limp and a grin, raise his flag at dawn with a ca

A few springs ago, a high school principal I know faced a storm over a 3-by-5 American flag draped on the back of a student’s pickup. After a minor confrontation in the parking lot, the administration met to decide what to do. They could have de-escalated with conversation and a reminder about safe driving. Instead, counsel advised a blanket rule: no flags on vehicles, period. It felt tidy on paper. In practice, it punished the kids who had never been the problem, and it ta