Photo Of Foreign Flag In Classroom Draws Flap From Denver Community
Friday, August 20, 2004 at 07:42AM
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Denver Will Allow Non-U.S. Flags In School
The controversy that erupted after a Mexican flag was
shown hanging in one of the city's high schools has led officials to
draft a policy protecting the display foreign flags in schools. The
guidelines, which are still being written, will allow flags of other
countries to be temporarily displayed if they are related to what is
being taught in the classroom, school superintendent Jerry Wartgow said
Thursday. The district got complaints from people upset by a photograph
in the Rocky Mountain News showing a Mexican flag displayed in a social
studies classroom at North High School on the first day of classes this
week. "It's a school for God's sake. That's where you study countries,"
he said. [more ]
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