Just south of Glen Rock, Pa., stands the community’s original, one-room schoolhouse, built in 1896. Across the street from the red-brick building, cows lounge about a farm, and cherry trees are flowering around a small pond. Towering on a hill above it is the modern campus of Southern York County School District, which boasts almost 3,000 students, three buildings, and sprawling athletic fields.
In the center of the complex, the American, state, and school flags all fly in front of the newly renovated and expanded high school building. A seemingly inconsequential detail, the mascot emblazoned on the school flag — an Indian head — initiated a community uproar and a subsequent school board turnover a few years earlier.
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