students get sent home for wearing American Flag on Cinco De Mayo

boobs on radio are pointless- you can't see 'em.

 

interesting that you find wearing the american flag on a t-shirt consistent w/ being a "giant disruptive douche."

 

Not that interesting if you are not too old to recall what high school/junior high/etc was like.

 

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Ha, basso with the Hannity logic. Five teenage friends accidentally wore US flag shirts on Cinco de Mayo because they didn't have anything else to wear. Obviously there was no statement intended by the accident.

My question is why in the hell is any American school expressly celebrating Cinco de Mayo? If they want to celebrate cultural heritages then let's celebrate heritages from all countries. The more the kids get to learn about and participate in different heritages, the less likely there'll be these pissing matches about flags. And another thing... despite the intellectual laziness of so many, there are latinos from countries besides Mexico.

 

http://www.ktrh.com/pages/michaelberry.html

Thursday, May 6th
Thursday 05-06-2010 5:17pm CT

Local School Suspends Student for Removing MEXICAN Flag

Yesterday, a listener’s son was offended that his school, Klein Collins High School, displayed the Mexican flag prominently. His mother called to complain, and the school wouldn’t return her call. The student took the sign down.


The school pitched a fit, reviewed the surveillance tapes, found the student, and suspended him for 3 days. AND he has to pay for the flag. In light of the SF story of students sent home for wearing the AMERICAN flag because it offended the Hispanic students, I thought you’d like to know about a story closer to home.


Right here in our community. Feel free to let the school know what you think. You pay their salaries.


Klein Collins High School (832) 484.5500. Assistant Principal handling the case: Mr. Shelly Dick. Seriously.


Call Mr. Dick and let him have it. The Superintendent is Jim Cain.

You realize, I assume, that if a student removed – or even burned – the AMERICAN flag, they wouldn’t do anything about it, I’ll bet.

 

right. if a student removed an american flag and/or burned it, they'd probably have a parade for them.

how do people this stupid not accidentally kill themselves by, i don't know, walking into traffic?

 

sounds like the kid was just adhearing to flag etiquette.

But really, this whole thing is getting out of control.

 

Why would you think this?

When I was in school vandalizing school property was punished pretty harshly with a minimum of detention. There was no exception made for the nature of the property.

Somebody who set something on fire would have been suspended or expelled. Again, no exceptions were made based on content.

You buffoons need to try to remember what it was like to be in school. THe next time you are going about your job and your boss physically detains you for talking out of turn or being in 1 minute after the bell, or grabs you and physically drags you down to the CEO's office - please let me know.

 

i can only imagine the outrage from groups like la raza if a hispanic kid got sent home for wearing a shirt w/ a mexican flag on it on texas independence day or a che guevara shirt on presidents day (for the record, i would defend their right to do so). or what if a kid in mexico wore a mexican flag shirt on 4th of july - would that be considered s***ing on american national pride?

its either all good or none of its good - if you cant wear an american flag shirt than you shouldnt be allowed to wear any flag. was the school consistent in that regard?

and its not like these kids were anti-mexico - they were pro-america - they werent running around shouting "mexico sucks" or wearing anti-mexico shirts. they were wearing american flag shirts...in america.

 

Gee, never saw this coming....

 

im not ignoring you, but i will not engage in debate w/ anyone who uses the phrase "just sayin".

 

its a no-no to wear the flag or make clothing out of it, but i always thought you could wear clothing w/ the flag on it.

just read through this and it seems to hint that although its frowned upon, recent supreme court decisions make it pointless to try and enforce.

http://www.senate.gov/reference/resources/pdf/RL30243.pdf

 

fair enough, but intent shouldnt come into play.

 

So let's take an alternative scenario.

Let's say there's a fat kid at school that the kids are taking turns tormenting and bullying. Let's say the call him "whale" because he's so fat.

Let's further say that five other kids find out that kids birthday and hatch a plot to have all the kids in the class wear a tee-shirt with a picture of a whale on it inorder to mock that kid on his birthday

Now- based on your logic, and that of assorted other buffoons in this thread, school officials are powerless to stop this behavior, because a whale is not offensive by itself, and because "intent shouldn't come into play"

Meanwhile, back in reality, discipline of minor students in schools does not ignore context as it does in your legal fantasyland, and otherwise "legal" gestures are met with detention, suspension etc.

 

Seriously man, do you think that is acceptable?

You of course know this for a FACT, right?

 

The school can discipline the direct bullying and teasing, but they have no grounds to force them to change their t-shirt.

 

and they were sent home

 

So applying your argument, were the kids with the american flags calling the mexicans "americans"?

You argument is inherently insulting, because the very depiction of calling a fat person a whale is mean. Unless, you consider calling someone an american is mean.

Overall, nice story, bad analagy.

 

howbout a group of British exchange students wearing clothes depicting the British flag during 4th of July (assuming it's not a school holiday)