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It's over. After months of controversy and a level of media coverage generally reserved for celebrity wife-murderers, the great poster debate of 2007 is finally over. Kern High School District trustees this week brought an end to the argument by voting to display posters that include our national motto, "In God We Trust," in every district classroom. The locally designed poster, though quite different from the one originally proposed by trustee Chad Vegas, features the national motto along with the U.S. Constitution, Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, and America's original motto, "E Pluribus Unum." The approved poster is an elegant and fair compromise to Vegas' earlier proposal that the poster feature the national motto only. The compromise poster hits the target its supporters were shooting for -- civic education and patriotism -- and is sure to leave many students wondering what all the fuss was about. Still, the compromise failed to appease...
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