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Student Suspended After Asking Admin Why American Flag Isn’t in Classrooms....Three Cop Cars Called
Gateway Pundit ^ | April 12, 2025 | Samuel Short

Posted on 04/12/2025 12:07:27 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man

Some students get suspended for fighting, others for wanting the American flag in the classroom.

The latter, WBFF-TV reported Wednesday, happened to high school senior and aspiring U.S. Marine Parker Jensen, a student at Townson High School in Baltimore, Maryland.

Jensen noticed classrooms at his high school did not display the American flag. According to WBFF, the Baltimore County school board policy and the Maryland Education Code both require the flag to be present in every room.

When Jensen went to the Board of Education to ask about the lack of flags at school, he did not get answers. Instead, school district officials called the police — and three police cars responded.

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TOPICS: Education; Government; Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: americanflag; arth; baltimore; behindenemylines; education; flag; freespeech; highschool; maryland; parkerjensen; townsonhighschool; towson; towsonhighschool
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

The problem is that school boards are not sufficiently afraid of the outraged parents.


21 posted on 04/12/2025 12:41:12 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: TexasGator

I believe that story. It is not trespassing it’s a public civic meeting. And to be charged with trespassing from a place open to the public (like a restaurant or store) generally the standard is you have to be told by staff to leave the premises. You’re only trespassing if you refuse to leave.

But the hubris of government workers knows no bounds.


22 posted on 04/12/2025 12:41:25 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: DesertRhino

“Just got his college paid for.”

Better yet, spend it on something worthwhile. The colleges are worse than the high schools.


23 posted on 04/12/2025 12:47:11 PM PDT by enumerated (M81 million votes my ass)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

They kept electing Bidet* for 50 some years.

More than enough for an indictment.


24 posted on 04/12/2025 12:50:52 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (Your oath of enlistment has no expiration date)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

bttt


25 posted on 04/12/2025 12:55:46 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: doorgunner69

“They kept electing Bidet* for 50 some years.”

That was Delaware.


26 posted on 04/12/2025 1:05:05 PM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE fSPEECH! )
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To: Ann Archy

Baltimore is a dump.


27 posted on 04/12/2025 1:06:35 PM PDT by laconic ( )
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To: Macho MAGA Man

I hope so, what a bunch of lefty wackos


28 posted on 04/12/2025 1:07:38 PM PDT by blitz128
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Sue the school admins, the board members, and the cops personally. The only way this will stop is if these petty tyrants are held personally responsible.


29 posted on 04/12/2025 1:08:46 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Long live The Great MAGA Kangz!)
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To: TexasGator

being proactive instead of being passive not unlike most parents


30 posted on 04/12/2025 1:10:03 PM PDT by Gene Eric
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
often told that if they do not have children in the system it is none of their business what happens in schools.

Then they should NOT BE PAYING ANY SKRULL TAXES !!! See what happens then…

31 posted on 04/12/2025 1:15:11 PM PDT by mabarker1 ((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! I’m a fraud, hypocrite & liar. I'm a member of Congress!!)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Just another inane action due to DemOncrats still in control of many of the US school systems.


32 posted on 04/12/2025 1:39:33 PM PDT by antidemoncrat ( )
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To: monkeyshine

“It is not trespassing it’s a public civic meeting.”

It wasn’t a meeting.

He went to their office building which was equipped with a buzzer/intercom for entry.

He identified as a student with his student ID but was not let in.

Their ivory castle since it seems.


33 posted on 04/12/2025 1:44:42 PM PDT by TexasGator (1.)
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To: Macho MAGA Man
Meanwhile the Sons of the American Revolution in my state (not Maryland) have been buying US flags to put into classrooms.

Baltimore is where Francis Scott Key wrote "The Star Spangled Banner"--a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.

34 posted on 04/12/2025 1:49:24 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: TexasGator

Ok fair enough. But it’s still a public administration building and he went there to redress a grievance. They would have brushed him off anyway but at least they could have allowed him entry to either speak his mind or make an appointment or something. Maybe he interrupted the rehearsal of their new TikTok dance.


35 posted on 04/12/2025 1:51:57 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: TexasGator

Problem is training, for the Board and the Police.

It’s a public meeting, the people have the right to speak as part of the 1A....redress their government.

The claim of ‘trespassing’ is something the police should understand, their first question should be “what crime did they commit?”. They have as much a duty to uphold the Constitution as they do to remove people engaging in disorderly conduct, which speaking your mind, during your time, is not.

The Police should educate the Board members that unless a crime has been committed, it’s a public building, a public meeting, and the public have rights - they can’t just be ‘trespassed’ because the Board doesn’t like what they’re saying during their time. The 1A stands supreme.

The Police lack this training, the have more like the Gestapo in Nazi Germany, a nod from the ‘authorities’ and you’re dragged off like a criminal. This is the USA....they need reminding.


36 posted on 04/12/2025 1:55:40 PM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: jeffersondem

“Trump has convinced several silk-stocking, national law firms to donate hundreds of million dollars in lawyer fees”

If he believes these law firms are going to donate the brightest and best staff he is an idiot.

If he believes these law firms aren’t going to sabotage his efforts and policies he is an idiot.


37 posted on 04/12/2025 2:00:47 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: HYPOCRACY

The key word here: “PERSONALLY”. With that possibility looming, it might cool their jets.


38 posted on 04/12/2025 2:03:00 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: MtnClimber
Why should they?

They are organized and the police are at their beck and call.

And if the parents should organize themselves and push back they have plenty of people who are natural born lickspitles and toad-eaters who will show up to defend anyone with political power or lots of money.

39 posted on 04/12/2025 2:05:02 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

A lawsuit is not enough. Those responsible should at a minimum be fired as well as investigated for criminal charges of denying civil rights under the color of the law.


40 posted on 04/12/2025 2:06:09 PM PDT by Petrosius
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