Thank you for teaching, and for including what should be common knowledge in your education.

Jan

Perhaps it is time for everyone to take a moment to research as to how the flag and pledge became a near religious activity.
All such political demonstrations are a sign that few people give one another the benefit of the doubt as to their personal beliefs and thus need to become busybodies to their neighbors with some kind of symbolism.

Making a fuss over the stars and stripes is not PC.
I recall it taking Obooboo a long time before he would condescend to pinning the flag onto his suit.
He would not even put his hand over his heart until he realized it may cost him the election.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/...

Imagine a flag to stand for Political Correctness...
1. It would be white as that is a totally "neutral" color.
2. The cost is low, because of the lack of dyes (which is why I didn't choose yellow).
3. It signifies "truce" or "surrender".
Then again...someone would still take issue with it being white, as it signifies racism (maybe yellow would work, after all).

I'm glad that there are some kids who still ask about the flag. They don't know about it -- hell, they're not even taught history or the founding of the country. How could they know?

I bet the Chinese kids making our American flag in the sweat shops know more about them than our own kids!
I need a new 3 X 5 flag for my yard and have been unable to find one made here!

The bigger question is American History

Oh. Google sex change failures. Or to maintain a positive frame of mind, DON'T.

Good luck. I have heard from teachers and parents how hard it is for teachers to "teach" these days.

The athlete formerly known as Bruce Jenner.

Why don't kids learn this stuff? I think the answer is, "It's deliberate," and an exposition about how and why is to be found here:
http://www.ordination.org/dumbing_dow...

"Who is Caitlyn Jenner?" Snezzy asks, knowing it must be someone who's shown up on TV or somewhere.

I teach at a high school here in Texas and while my subject is Math and not History. I can say that the information is covered multiple times over the course of study. With that said very few students care enough to actually absorb anything and essentially I am nothing more than a glorified babysitter, and if too many of my students fail (even though they do nothing) it is considered to be my fault.

Excellent.

I remember talking about this when I was in elementary school. I can't believe kids in the USA don't know these things.

Uh, "collapse the school system", while *WE WISH", the average parents can't afford to be paying taxes for brainwashing government education, as that renders them unable to afford the better alternatives which would otherwise exist.

Just awesome!

Ron Paul said: "It is no coincidence that as the federal role in education has increased the quality of our education system has declined. Any "reforms" to federal education programs will not fix the fundamental flaw in the centralized model of education. The only way to improve education is to shut down the Department of Education and restore control of education to those with the greatest ability and incentive to choose the type of education that best meets the needs of American children - American parents." To which I would add: free market education. Education is too important to be handled by government.

I'm English and know the answer to these questions about the American flag.

OK, good. I wanted to make sure I was clear in my point.

When it comes to the schools I think the parents have culpability there as much as the system. They keep sending their kinder to the indoctrination camps. If they shrugged the state institutions they would collapse.

Absolutely not, my friend... what disturbs me is, like the flag, how little children are really being taught in the name of "radical socialist inclusion", as if instead of bringing the lower-performing student's knowledge up, we have to dumb down those who have the smarts to make everyone equal.

It is the horror of Socialism brought to life, and society is being taught that instead of striving for greatness, everyone has to be brought down to a level of sub-intelligence so no one feels "left behind". I believe that if they could, they would electro-lobotomize people with an IQ in the triple digits to bring them down to the level of those less fortunate.

Of course... the "elite" would be exempt.

I remember this friend in school - good kid, lotsa heart, but not a brain trust by any means... but instead of believing the societal "You tried, and that's all that matters" BS mantra, he worked his butt off to better himself. And eventually did. But those who told him he should accept his lot in life - those who said "You can be who you are and nothing else matters" - were not happy he challenged their perception of who they felt he was and should be.

Exactly.

My point is that most people know and care more about Jenner's sex choice than they do about what's really important. It's all bread and circuses for the masses. Distractions. Did you miss my point that facts about the flag aren't being taught because it might offend someone? It might violate someone's safe space?

I think the main point is that most Americans know more about celebrities or faux celebrities like the Kardashians than they know about their country and its Flag.

And probably should have It's not that what Ms. Jenner did was right or wrong, it was the absolute spectacle she made of her whole episode of her recent life. It's not the transition from Bruce to Kaitlyn that bothers me; it's the whole Kardashian Media-whoremongering (considering she is as Kardashian as Kim) to exploit it for some kind of benefit by selling out to the media, and in so doing turn it into some "freak show entertainment spectacle" that, to me, was pretty tasteless.

So... the question therefore begs... WHAT THE (deleted) does Ms. Jenner or her life have to do with the flag or the original topic? Seriously - Can someone please answer this for me? Kids wondering and not knowing about stripes, stars, or the eagle on the flagpole... and within 4 posts it becomes a transphobia debate. Are YOU that distracted by the sheeple-grade narcotic yourselves? Think about it...