text: Unfortunately, no matter how much we dislike what happened in American history, it is ours and we need to own it. I don't like how our ancestors treated our indigenous Indians, used slavery or treated women as objects. I didn't like Alaska's cruelty of its wildlife or the setting of fires to thousands of acres of Alaskan land by individuals who needed jobs or Alaska not immediately made a part of the lower union of states. Like it or not it is our history. We can't do away with it, pretend it didn't happen or punish people who unknowingly use symbols of the bad parts. Russia tried to rewrite it's history. Stalin is still remembered, discussed and sometimes revered. It didn't work for them and it won't work for us. It is especially disturbing to me this incident occurred in an environment of learning. Knowledge is power. Teaching what the flag represented negates a tradition of hate. The school had an awesome opportunity and blew it.