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A maintenance worker stands on a ladder at dawn, hands numb in October air, unhooking a weathered American flag from a school facade. He is not angry. He is doing what he was told after a parent complaint and a quick district email that called the flag display a “distraction.” The scene lasts five minutes. The space above the brick doorway looks bigger than it did before, like a missing tooth you cannot stop noticing. By first bell, most students pass under the empty pole w