You are all incorrect here - she SHOULD suit, the school district, for hiring a teacher that, bless her heart, knows NOTHING about the Civil War, not even blue versus grey for crying out loud!!!!
The kid liked the hat. The teacher should have seen the reality and gone to the principle and gotten money to purchase a replacement Yankee blue - then sent BOTH home to the mother to let her decide - her son’s preference or the mother’s better judgement either way.
A black kid riding his bike with a Confederate cap would be an embarrassment and he needs to know, yet needs to get his well earned prize.
My kids re-enact civil war in our back yard with both flags or only the northern flag - there’s no solely Confederate flag of any style out of respect for the dignity of my fellow Americans that might otherwise easily misunderstand.
Blacks in the Confederacy were not free enough to choose, not as free as even the poor whites to choose sides fully, that was the whole point of ending slavery(!!!!) regardless what the war was fought over.
Sorry, bub. I remember, like 25 years ago, a young black night shift janitor at our plant in Massachusetts drove a Miata with a Confederate States Army flag in the front license plate bracket. He had a NH plate on the rear. So here was a young black adult with a rear plate that said "Live Free or Die!" and a front plate that celebrated the Army of Northern Virginia! Al Sharpton would have had a coronary. I never put a political bumber sticker on any car in my life, but I wanted to get CSA Flag flag for my pick-up. My wife won't let me. Okay, I'm whipped, I admit it.