Sidwell - American Flag

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"The flag is offensive to some people." Then leave the country please

Well if something is offensive to one person a progressive school must get rid of it.
And isn’t it invogue the last 10 years to hate America?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lol. Sidwell is about as Quaker these days as my morning oatmeal.

Lol.

[Anonymous]

Quaker thing.

[Anonymous]

Another reason why Sidwell is so lame

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"The flag is offensive to some people." Then leave the country please

But it's a free country. I'm allowed to be offended.

[Anonymous]

It's a Quaker thing, not a "Sidwell" thing.

Haters gonna hate.

[Anonymous]

Why should there be a flag or an anthem?

Can't you have deep respect for the USA without overt displays of patriotism?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"The flag is offensive to some people." Then leave the country please

This is my home and I’m going to be here. If you don’t like it, you leave.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"The flag is offensive to some people." Then leave the country please

Because we don't like freedom of expression? Oh, wait...

[Anonymous]

It’s a a Quaker thing. In addition, Sidwell (and many, many other schools) are truly international schools. Our daughter’s first year there, I noted that o”over half of the kids in her class (more like 2/3) had at least one parent who was not from the US. That is in our family’s view a great opportunity for our kids to grow up with kids from across the world, and with foreign parents from a broad range of backgrounds. I don’t find any need for the school to display national flag. It’s Quaker, and international. No flags are displayed. My kids, though, know more details about US history and the US constitution that I di until midway through college.

[Anonymous]

Out of curiosity, does Sandy Spring Friends display a flag?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Out of curiosity, does Sandy Spring Friends display a flag?

No. Why do you think one Quaker school would in a sea of all the others that don't?

[Anonymous]

Who even cares.

[Anonymous]

Flag should fly. This is the United States of America.

National anthem should not be played, at any sporting event, ever, minus Olympics/World Cups/International competition. Maybe the Super Bowl/World Series only because it's a championship game.

In fact, I actively make a point to be in the concourse/bathroom during the national anthem of sporting events I go to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s a a Quaker thing. In addition, Sidwell (and many, many other schools) are truly international schools. Our daughter’s first year there, I noted that o”over half of the kids in her class (more like 2/3) had at least one parent who was not from the US. That is in our family’s view a great opportunity for our kids to grow up with kids from across the world, and with foreign parents from a broad range of backgrounds. I don’t find any need for the school to display national flag. It’s Quaker, and international. No flags are displayed. My kids, though, know more details about US history and the US constitution that I di until midway through college.

My family is Quaker (Quakers since 1690 in the US and came over with William Penn) and we proudly fly American flags in our yard. My Quaker grandfather and uncle also proudly fought on front lines in World War II.
All of the young men at my grandfathers Friends high school in the Philadelphia area proudly enlisted in World War II and were honored to fight for their country.

What passes for Quakerism now is not what George Fox envisioned. What passes for Quakerism now is essentially extreme leftist indoctrination.