their family wanted. therein lies the most controversial component of the gary plan. in gary, children continue to their limited, individualized religious instruction, off school grounds, and were taught to embrace a new progressive symbol of the divine ideal. the american flag. do you think they would say, well, our motive was benevolent? we are trying to give practical application to students? who don t really need all this highfalutin latin stuff. we are not evil progressives cooking up a plot, we are just moving into the modern era. there were many good things that came out of the progressive movement. unfortunately, we are taught all those things in the public school today, leaves out the western christian idea was what they had to remove to make those fit. within a plan of just a few