This is ridiculous.
School uniforms that bear. small American Flag as ab Insignia would be a great Idea
Everybody wears one or they dont get to attend school at all.
the offended get to go elsewhere !
Paging George Orwell.
In fact, they should remove any sort of American flags or other patriotic symbols from the entire city of Washington DC, as these might prejudice one or more of the Justices as they are driven to work in the morning.
The country is going cuckoo with this type of nonsense.
“so long as their actions do not lead to a “substantial disruption.””
The disruption was originally caused by students with allegiance to mexico threatening students (some of them of mexican descent) wearing t-shirts with American flags.
So it was the “cinco de mayo celebrating” kids that initiated the “substantial disruption” yet the kids wearing the american flag got punished.
Blame the victim. Patriot-shaming. Teach Cinco de Mayo-ers not to be violent.
Wear the American Flag t-shirts anyway, and walk in with middle fingers held high.
Sick of this crap. This is America.
The Cino de mayo idiots can go the Hell back to their own country.
ALL political speech is PROTECTED speech under the constitution.
It’s really just as simple as that.
That this made it to the Supreme Court at all shows just hoe far down the tubes our Courts System has gone.
It was pretty controversial in the 1960’s, as I remember, it was widely viewed as completely disrespectful.
Times changed, and now it rarely merits a raised eyebrow.
In this particular case though, it appears that a majority of the local students were of Mexican descent, and the public school administration actively discriminated against a minority of students, who were not.
I wondered at the time if a French flag T-shirt wearer would have been seen as “inflaming” the situation? It seemed to me that might have caused a ruckus, but perhaps none of the Mexicans knew what it looked like, so just assumed the USA flag T-shirt wearers were the “enemy”.
In the USA, at a USA public school.
I do understand why the USSC decided to hear the case.
Can you imagine ISIS flag T-shirt wearers in USA schools on 9/11/2015?
Is that going to be considered acceptable or objectionable?
What if certain students don't want to tape their mouths shut on gay-days?
Or wear pink shirts to support breast cancer awareness?
When and how does the crap end?
I pity the fool who tries to make me take it off.
As long as it remains okay to burn the American flag on Cinco de Mayo.
“...political fashion statements....”
So now wearing something that says “I love my country” is a political fashion statement which must be repressed but I’m sure those in power would champion the rights of students to wear Che or Reconquista shirts....
To be clear...
Cinco de mayo is a fake Holliday created by a beer company , right?
That cinco de mayo?