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

I hate dishonest parents. Suggesting the kids were just being patriotic, when it's pretty obvious they were being stupid, insensitive...um....highschoolers. Who'd have thought highschool boys could be such pricks?

But even the district admits the school handled it poorly. And they did.

They should have assigned them some sort of essay on the significance of Cinco de Mayo. Something about fajitas, or margaritas.

 

It's a t-shirt that isn't affecting anyone's education, harming anyone, or displaying anything offensive. It's a ****ing t-shirt, Talk about being a moron

 

A school's primary responsibilities are education and safety. Anything that detracts from that, even a stupid t-shirt, is a problem. I mean what about kids not chewing gum in class. It's GUM. It's FREAKING GUM and yet it's a distraction. What about a certain group of kids all wearing red shirts every day. They're FREAKING SHIRTS. How could a bunch of kids wearing the same shirt POSSIBLY affect anyone at a SCHOOL. OH MY GOD...

LOL You're a riot.

 

Any substantial evidence that other countries have lesser free speech protections than the US?

Is this a serious question?

Really?

Oh, and were these trips outside the US family vacations to the Bahamas, by any chance? I'm guessing you're probably about 19...am I right?

This insult doesn't even make any logical sense.

Please explain how alluding to the fact that a kindergartner can't file a TRO to avoid naptime equates to calling your education into question...

THough for the record, I'm willing to bet your level of educational achievement probably does not include a J.D.

 

Hope that was worth your time.

 

So in your reality, you weren't allowed to wear a t-shirt to school? And I'm the one who is in fantasy land?

Show me the school dress code that says you cannot wear a USA t-shirt on Cinco de Mayo. Please.

As a personal example, I've seen numerous t-shirts that praise Communist revolutionaries and leaders worn in my high school. Myself and friends who are Vietnamese and Chinese felt those shirts were distasteful, but we didn't get our panties in a wad and complain to the school district, nor did the school district even find them offensive. Why didn't the school district come in to save my feelings? Why oh why?

 

But see, if the fat kid actually laughs at it and takes it in stride then everyone's in on it, right. Therefore everyone is in rights to do what they're doing. Therefore is EQUALITY for all kids to do anything that other kids would do. Therefore its all UNinforcable .. ?


I dont get how people arent understanding that schools can reprimand kids for almost anything, just for wearing "thongs" and "cutoffs" and such. The class clown migh get reprimanded for something quicker than the teacher's pet. Thats just how things go in school.

Palin supports latinos by getting her legs latino colored

 

The school district (or some school districts) COULD if it wanted to. Now the school district might unevenly put one group's feelings over the other. But it can conclude that a group is being insensitive, it can conclude all groups are being insensitive, it can conclude NO group is being insensitive.

 

At my school we had to wear a collared shirt every day. Crazy.

Do you understand what the concept of "parens patriae" means? It doesn't matter what it says in the school dress code.

 

So if I'm reading this correctly, the school has the jurisdiction to dictate whatever it wants for minors and you went to a private school with strict rules.

 

not until i looked it up. dumb it down for some of us (or for me please).

yes. there are quite a bit of schools these days, public and otherwise, where uniforms are required.

 

I'm sure these guys wore those shirts, on that day, just to be dicks.
Personally, I think always flashing the American flag everywhere is a bit dumb. Not because having pride in your country is bad, but what else is motivating you to do that so much? I've seen people that have then hanging from their house, the back of their car, on their hat...etc. etc.
Damn, that's a lot of pride.
With that said though, it was just a shirt of the flag, and with the wrong intentions was maybe disrespectful at most. Nobody got hurt so it's all good.
Hell, they got the day off.

 

Well here is the issue. If the dbag flag kids ended up getting beaten up, then the parents could sue the school for not intervening ahead of time. It was a lose-lose situation for the school and they felt that they chose the lesser liability.

 

I guess this is my question: why would they be beaten up? What exactly is offensive about a shirt with an american flag on it? regardless of the intention of the kids wearing them, why is it offensive? I don't get it

 

Were the kids wearing these shirts to be bigots, or pranksters/rebels? Were there really that many pissed of Hispanics, or are high school principals just insanely risk averse?

 

Why did these group of friends choose to get decked out in flag gear for Cinco de Mayo? Why not the 5th of April or March?

 

It is better than these CHILDREN going and getting their own revenge.

 

Cinco De Mayo is a dumb Holiday anyways. Were these kids taunting people? (prove it)

Its an american flag and it wasn't against the dress code. Some of those kids are part latino anyways.

I find it digusting that some people think that because they wore an american flag on cinco de mayo they automatically are being r****ded/racist/stupid it is there right to wear whatever they want within the limitations of the school policies.

 

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You need to go the local city paper website and read the comments from the students and staffs from that school and get more info.
I find that it is disgusting that you take a side without enough facts. That is r****ded/ racist/ stupid.