{"id":19058,"date":"2010-05-11T08:25:32","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T13:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19058"},"modified":"2010-05-11T08:29:22","modified_gmt":"2010-05-11T13:29:22","slug":"whats-up-with-teachers-and-the-american-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19058","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s up with teachers and the American flag?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of you have sent me some stories about teachers and the American flag in the last few days and i&#8217;m wondering what is being taught in Education Departments these days.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/news\/23475912\/detail.html\">ClickOrlando<\/a>, FL;<\/p>\n<p><object id=\"4559\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0\" height=\"394\" width=\"448\"><param value=\"always\" name=\"allowscriptaccess\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/syndication?id=92945249&#038;path=%2Fnews%2Flocal-beat\"\/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/syndication?id=92945249&#038;path=%2Fnews%2Flocal-beat\"  type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" wmode=\"transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"400\" width=\"500\"><\/embed><p style=\"font-size:small\">View more news videos at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/video\">http:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/video<\/a>.<\/p><\/object><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ksbw.com\/news\/23512008\/detail.html\">KSBW, Salinas, CA<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tracy Hathaway said her art teacher at Gavilan View Middle School told her daughter she couldn&#8217;t draw the American flag, calling the picture offensive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"333\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/2i_HbuwmcAE&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/2i_HbuwmcAE&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Kids getting kicked out of school for wearing flag T-shirts and chastised for drawing an American flag? It seems to me that teachers are more preoccupied with making political statements than teaching these days. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of you have sent me some stories about teachers and the American flag in &hellip; <a title=\"What&#8217;s up with teachers and the American flag?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19058\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What&#8217;s up with teachers and the American flag?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}