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] Date Posted: 03:01:51 11/13/04 Sat In reply to: Ed Harris (London) 's message, "Gosh" on 01:13:55 11/13/04 Sat When I was growing up in Toronto in the late 1960's, we had a Maple Leaf flag and a Union Jack hanging in our classroom with a picture of the Queen between them. These were in every classroom. In today's Ontario schools, they usually display the Maple Leaf flag only or the Maple Leaf Flag and the Ontario Red Ensign in the classroom and have only one picture of the Queen hanging in the front foyer or in the school office. These are government-funded primary and secondary schools. Private schools usually have them just in the front office. They would not do any of this in Quebec, ofcourse. I am glad that posh private schools fly the Union Jack on their school grounds in Britain. You should have a Union Jack in the classroom like we do. A friend of mine is a Scout leader over in Britain, in Yorkshire, and he still raises the Union Jack in all of his meetings. The Scouts still do that at all meetings throughout the UK as they are required to do. Canadian Scouts apparently never raised the Canadian Red Ensign at meetings, they always used the Union Jack until the flag change in 1965 when they began raising the Maple Leaf flag. When I was a wolf cub scout in the late 1960's, we raised the Maple Leaf flag at meetings. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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Author: David (Australia) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 07:30:45 11/13/04 Sat In Australia, the federal government has recently passed legislation requiring all schools to fly the Australian flag. If they do not fly the flag, they do not recieve federal funding. The government is also providing schools without flags with free ones. I strongly support this legislation. When I was at school (before this legislation was introduced) my school always used to fly the Australian and New South Wales flag. The New South Wales flag is also a great flag.  [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |