{"id":697,"date":"2006-08-26T16:48:35","date_gmt":"2006-08-26T20:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=697"},"modified":"2006-08-26T16:48:35","modified_gmt":"2006-08-26T20:48:35","slug":"flag-flap-in-denver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=697","title":{"rendered":"Flag flap in Denver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/news\/ci_4228017\">Colorado teacher was suspended this week for displaying foreign flags<\/a> in a geography class. Colorado law says you can&#8217;t display another country&#8217;s flag on a public building, but there&#8217;s an exception for transitory displays for educational purposes. Geography teachers can&#8217;t display flags?  A day later, the district <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockymountainnews.com\/drmn\/local\/article\/0,1299,DRMN_15_4944107,00.html\">reversed itself<\/a>. Something tells me the administration realized (after adverse publicity) that the middle-school principal was overreacting.<br \/>\nHat tip: Peter Gamache, e-mail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Colorado teacher was suspended this week for displaying foreign flags in a geography class. Colorado law says you can&#8217;t display another country&#8217;s flag on a public building, but there&#8217;s an exception for transitory displays for educational purposes. Geography teachers can&#8217;t display flags? A day later, the district reversed itself. Something tells me the administration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-policy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-bf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}