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A few years ago I stood at the back of a high school gym as the band tuned up and the valedictorian rehearsed her speech. An assistant principal reminded the student emcee, quietly but firmly, not to add a prayer to the program. Minutes later, when the crowd settled in, the emcee offered a moment of silence. Some parents bowed their heads. Others checked their phones. Nothing felt especially radical, or especially sacred. It felt careful. That carefulness has become a fe

At a school board meeting in a town where everyone knows the color of the football field’s bleachers, I watched two neighbors argue about a library book neither of them had read. One was worried her fourth grader would stumble into ideas he wasn’t ready for. The other, a retired social studies teacher, talked about a student he’d once had who found, in a book, the language he needed to ask for help. Both people cared. Both wanted the school to do right by children. And neit

At a school board meeting in a town where everyone knows the color of the football field’s bleachers, I watched two neighbors argue about a library book neither of them had read. One was worried her fourth grader would stumble into ideas he wasn’t ready for. The other, a retired social studies teacher, talked about a student he’d once had who found, in a book, the language he needed to ask for help. Both people cared. Both wanted the school to do right by children. And neit

Walk a top tuition hallway and you'll see a quiet referendum on id. Pride flags on a counselor’s door. A armed forces provider banner tacked above a locker. A student’s backpack patch that reads “Don’t Tread on Me.” And in a few rooms, conspicuously, no American flag at all. Parents ask, in many instances angrily and oftentimes with fair confusion: Why are American flags being got rid of from lecture rooms, yet other flags are advocated? Ultimate Flags Inc.

Walk right into a prime faculty at the moment and your eyes scan extra than posters about promenade and geometry proofs. You would see a Pride flag in a counselor’s place of work, a cultural heritage banner in a world language classroom, a pupil with a small thin blue line decal on a water bottle, a further with a BLM button on a backpack. The American flag, required by means of many states to be displayed somewhere within the development, will be the front and middle withi