Posted on 04/09/2014 3:11:34 PM PDT by kingattax
In the small town of Waldron, Ark., — population 3,600, smack-dab in the middle of the Razorback State and surrounded by lakes and a mountain range — they love hunting and fishing and their Turkey Track Bluegrass Festival.
Some of the high school students also love to fly Confederate flags from their trucks, a tradition they say signifies they’re proud of their “heritage” and where they live.
But those reasons didn’t fly with the brass at Waldron High School, who see the flags as potentially offensive and have threatened to suspend three boys — and possibly hold them back from graduating — if they continue displaying them on their trucks in the school parking lot, according to KFSM-TV in Fort Smith, Ark.
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C’mon Blaze...get your geography right. The place is at the Western edge of AR, not “smack-dab” in the middle of the state.
So true. But the stars and bars are the stars and bars.
The ignorant school administration should look at the Arkansas flag and explain where those stars and bars came from.
They should all fly a muzzie flag, a Mexican flag, a gay flag and the Confederate flag. Then ask the principal which ones he will approve.
There used to be a little joint in Y City that made the best BBQ pulled pork sandwich I’ve ever eaten.
I agree, take the flags down, but hoist up the officials instead.
These Southern Teens need to exist so those of us of above average intelligence can mock them for celebrating a war where their ancestors got stomped like a Hindu in a roomful of Muslims.
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