Thursday, May 6, 2010

Students Sent Home For US Flag Shirts

File this one under "no longer a surprise".
Several boys at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, CA were sent home after wearing American flag shirts and bandannas on the 5th of May.
They were told that they would have to hide the flags if they stayed at school or they would be expelled because it was not sensitive to Hispanic students during a Mexican holiday.
Shall we hide our flag for every foreign independence celebration?
The one bright spot in the story was that the families and boys responded to the question of whether they will apologize with a "Hell NO!"
If the school system were run by reasonably decent people, the kids would have been taught that we are an open and accepting culture for adopting the Cinco de Mayo celebration and they should be grateful that we allow them to display their flag.
I seriously doubt celebrating the 4th of July and waving the American flag would get much support in Mexico.

BTW, most of the comments on the story slam the school administration.

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