Only ONE banned on 5 May
You can’t wear an American flag shirt to school in California. It might offend the Mexicans.
On any other day at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, Daniel Galli and his four friends would not even be noticed for wearing t-shirts with the American flag. But Cinco de Mayo is not any typical day especially on a campus with a large Mexican American student population.
I support the message that we shouldn’t be celebrating other country’s holidays. Some might say St. Patrick’s day is a “Cinco De Mayo”, but that is originally a religious day.
School bureaucrats did what they do best – acted like weenies, then collected another day of generous salaries, great benefits and a nice secure pension.
Update: similar silliness… no whites allowed!
May 6th, 2010 at 9:25 am
Don’t you think there is something basically undignified in wearing the national flag as a piece of clothing? What is the message of a flag as a collector of drips and spills?
May 6th, 2010 at 9:31 am
I wouldn’t do it. But free speech permits it, except when it irks Mexicans apparently.
May 6th, 2010 at 9:48 am
Its Mexifornia. You can’t have those pesky Americans flaunting their nationality.
May 6th, 2010 at 9:21 pm
The vice principal wasn’t disciplining the students because of concerns over dignity in wearing the flag. This is straight up violating free speech and if the ACLU had any gonads they would be in there defending these kids’ rights. After all, their website makes a point that they are there for society’s most vulnerable and isn’t that what children are…..unless they’re white American males.
May 7th, 2010 at 6:52 am
I agree with Carl that the flag should not be mad into clothing. There is a cop at work who is Mr. Super Patriot who wear a flag shirt. Apart from looking goofy, he above all should know that isn’t the correct use of the flag.
But again, Carl tries to change the discussion into something it isn’t about. It’s about PC, liberal thought control, and school administrators overstepping their bounds. If Mexican students wore Mexican flag shirts on July 4th, does anyone really believe these administrators would have ordered them to remove them?
May 7th, 2010 at 8:07 am
that is the test, and they would fail it.