Ohio Schools Need Flags for Students to Pledge to
Students pledged allegiance to images of flags printed on pieces of paper and beamed onto walls as one of Ohio’s big-city school districts opened the academic year with a new requirement that the pledge be recited — and a shortage of flags in classrooms.
“Apparently, between the time that (the new policy) was passed and the start of school, they just couldn’t get enough flags,” Columbus school board member Mike Wiles told The Columbus Dispatch (http://bit.ly/p9xxWR ) for a story published Thursday.
Wiles sponsored a directive the school board passed last week telling schools to begin the day by leading students in the Pledge of Allegiance. The new policy was put into practice throughout the district on Wednesday, the first day of the new academic year for most Columbus public schools.
School officials weren’t sure how many classrooms had no flag, though Wiles said he found many flagless classrooms on a tour of seven buildings on the first day of school.
Teachers improvised by distributing small, printed-out copies of flags, projecting flags onto walls and displaying them on computer screens, the Dispatch reported.
The federal Flag Code requires that a person saying the pledge have some type of flag to look at, said Steve Ebersole, spokesman for the American Legion of Franklin County.
Wiles promised that schools would get more flags, so long as they’re not too expensive.
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