And they say California is wacky: I was cruising through a teachers' magazine the other day, and I came across this link to a story about a geography teacher in Colorado who got suspended for flying foreign flags in his classroom. Eric Hamlin was corrected for displaying the U.N., Chinese and Mexican flags in his classroom. What ridiculous nonsense. Apparently, it's state law in Colorado that you cannot display any foreign flag permanently in a school unless it applies directly to the curriculum. The school district suspended him, then reinstated him and made a rule that he can have them up for only six weeks at a time and then he will have to rotate them out.

Those Colorado folks would really pitch a fit if they could see our house. So far this year, we've had Norwegian, German, Slovakian and Danish flags flying at our house to welcome our much-adored exchange students. Those beautiful flags are flying high as long as they're living or visiting in our house. Right now, we are hosting a Norwegian student and our neighbors are hosting a Danish student, so the neighborhood's starting to look like embassy row.