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Friday, October 22, 2010

Somewhere Over The Rainbow You'll Find Gold

I was in the cafeteria at Lynn English last night at my daughter's cheerleading practice looking up and what did I see? Hanging from the beams in the ceilings were flags from country's all over the world.

My heart was warmed by this overt attempt to instill pride in the student's identity.  At the same time, having a wide variety helps reinforce the idea that we can all peacefully coexist. A rainbow is a beautiful thing and a sign that there is a pot of gold waiting if we just follow it to the end.

That just makes it all the more confusing to me that I have received no response to my suggestion of having the students at Ford School paint wooden plaques or signs or whatever, then have the students in the carpentry class at Lynn Tech place them under the windows facing the International Garden at Ford. It would be a great art project for the students, the Tech kids would get to contribute to a positive project, and a sense of pride would be built with very little construction costs.

It would be a small price to pay for all that self worth. There is your gold..

7 comments:

  1. We live in America. American Flags please. Would you dare go another country and insist your nations flag be flown. Granted many are from other countries and that is wonderful but why do we need to hang any other flags. Your in America time to assimilate-! Enough with the liberal agendas. Some schools cannot even say the pledge!

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  2. One has to know where he has came from to know where he is going. I could have agreed with you on the pledge but that wasn't an arguement tha you wanted to make. Instead you wanted to go into your neo-conservative rant. How can you expect people to stand up for America when you won't even stand up for your own name Anonymous.

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  3. Anon, to have pride in one's heritage and family's country of origin is uniquely American and fully compatible with being a patriot.

    To fear or even dislike displays of foreign flags is to reveal an insecurity - a sense of vulnerability. I know that America is stronger than that, and that Americans can handle images of any flag without having to feel as though their own is threatened.

    There seems to be a movement, mainly amongst the uneducated, to erase all signs of people here having come from somewhere else. We've all come from somewhere else, and America is the sum of that experience. If we teach ourselves to forget that fact, we begin unravel all that the American flag stands for.

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  4. Some people still feel we are an english colony. The truth of where this world is historically for human beings, and how we need to evolve to live, can be threatening to anyone. Acknowledging our need as humans to understand each other is vital to our survival and creation.

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  5. Like tha great philosopher Roney King said, "Can't we all just get along"

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