"I think they should apologize cause it is a Mexican Heritage Day," Annicia Nunez, a Live Oak High student, said. "We don't deserve to be get disrespected like that. We wouldn't do that on Fourth of July."
I want to see a lawsuit.Should Gentiles be made to wear Ya micas during Hanukkah? Should non-Christians be forced to put up trees on Christmas? This is completely ridiculous, the school has no leg to stand. The Supreme Court has clearly ruled that students do not check their rights at the door.
Clearly, if simply wearing the flag is 'incendiary', the burning the is that much more so.Personally, I support this. This way if I ever see someone burning the American flag, I have carte blanche to walk up to them and kick them square in the nuts because "they hurt my feelings".
Geesh what a bunch of cry babies.
If wearing a gay pride shirt is enough to get kids kicked out of class, I have absolutely no problem with the American flag on a t-shirt being enough to do the same.
If wearing a gay pride shirt is enough to get kids kicked out of class, I have absolutely no problem with the American flag on a t-shirt being enough to do the same.
Weird how you see no difference between a t-shirt promoting a sexual act and a shirt depicting the American flag. I'm failing to see the comparison.
Why would a t-shirt depicting the flag of our country cause a problem?
Should school kids be kicked off campus for t-shirts with the American flag on it?
Yes
No
I do not know/maybe
Only in Commiefornia would something like this happen. Last I checked this was America, Not Mexico. So the so-called offended students have no business being offended by the American flag, nor did any teachers or administrators have any business telling the kids that they couldn't wear American flags on their clothes to not offend the Mexican and students and the students of Mexican decent.
Students Kicked Off Campus for Wearing American Flag Tees | NBC Bay Area
Updated 9:56 AM PDT, Thu, May 6, 2010
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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.
Galli says he and his friends were sitting at a table during brunch break when the vice principal asked two of the boys to remove American flag bandannas that they wearing on their heads and for the others to turn their American flag T-shirts inside out. When they refused, the boys were ordered to go to the principal's office.
"They said we could wear it on any other day," Daniel Galli said, "but today is sensitive to Mexican-Americans because it's supposed to be their holiday so we were not allowed to wear it today."
The boys said the administrators called their T-shirts "incendiary" that would lead to fights on campus.
"They said if we tried to go back to class with our shirts not taken off, they said it was defiance and we would get suspended," Dominic Maciel, Galli's friend, said.
The boys really had no choice, and went home to avoid suspension. They say they're angry they were not allowed to express their American pride. Their parents are just as upset, calling what happened to their children, "total nonsense."
"I think it's absolutely ridiculous," Julie Fagerstrom, Maciel's mom, said. "All they were doing was displaying their patriotic nature. They're expressing their individuality."
But to many Mexican-American students at Live Oak, this was a big deal. They say they were offended by the five boys and others for wearing American colors on a Mexican holiday.
"I think they should apologize cause it is a Mexican Heritage Day," Annicia Nunez, a Live Oak High student, said. "We don't deserve to be get disrespected like that. We wouldn't do that on Fourth of July."
Weird how you see no difference between a t-shirt promoting a sexual act and a shirt depicting the American flag. I'm failing to see the comparison.
Let's keep it real.
Why were they wearing it? Obviously, I guess they kind of wanted to get caught and say "wait why is this wrong" to prove a point. Even I did a similar thing in high school. I mean one of the kids is wearing flag colored shorts (I think), its clear the purpose and reasoning behind it. Its definitely debatable as to whether that's truly ethical or not.
However, its a valid argument. As we all know, high schools are prisons and the 1st Amendment is infringed upon day after day. Kicking the kids out of school is beyond wrong. I mean yes, go forth and celebrate Mexican culture and ethnicity, but why limit the expression of others just because it might incite a fight?
I play the BS card.
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