Posted on 04/01/2006 10:12:20 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Colo. School Bans Flags Amid Protests Principal Says Students Used Flags To Taunt Others
(CBS) LONGMONT, Colo. Dozens of high school students protested a temporary school policy forbidding students from displaying the U.S. flag, as well as flags from other countries, amid racial tensions following immigration rallies.
Skyline High School Principal Tom Stumpf said American flags were brazenly waved in the faces of Hispanic students and in one case a Mexican flag was thrown into the face of another student.
"When it involves the American flag and its abuse in vilifying other people, we simply will not tolerate it," Stumpf said. "They were using the symbol derisively as misguided patriotism."
Students were warned about the policy Friday and several were suspended, although Stumpf would not provide details. Then, about 100 students protested during lunch time.
Student Dustin Carlson told the KCNC-TV, the CBS station in Denver, that he was suspended for two days.
"I'm getting suspended for it and personally I think that's uncalled for," he said. "If this country means freedom, then why can't we fly our own flag? It's ridiculous."
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I think white flags are still ok.
"you punish the students not the flag."
Huh? You mean when I didn't take care of my bike and my mother took it away from me, she was punishing my bike?
ROFL! How true.
You're right, using Old Glory to taunt others is wrong, but frankly flying and waving Mexican flags on US soil is a form of a taunt as well... what's good for the goose.
The principal had no concern when it was the Mexican flag being used to taunt Americans, but somehow now that Americans are flying an American flag in America, he has a problem and tramples his students right to free speech.
This guy is just another flaming liberal that hates America first and most.
It's interesting that when it was just Mexican flags and the like being waved it was just fine with the school.
When American flags started being waved it suddenly became a problem and the school decided ALL flags needed to be banned. hmmm
I want to know where all the Mexican flags are coming from. Who is buying them in bulk and handing them out?
Banning anything that could conceivably be used in a negative manner is not something worth a raise...it is worth a firing.
This man is not capable of thinking of logical solutions to problems, but instead just bans things in response to occassional misuse.
He is an idiot and a mental midget.
Not every single kid was waving the flag in the face of other kids.
You make it sound like they all were using it in a poor manner.
The kids who used the flag in an abusive manner should have theirs taken away.
End of story.
You don't ban them all.
This is not a difficult issue, nu.
The principal is flatly in the wrong.
Actually, the principal stopped both sides from what they were doing. I saw nothing in the article that reflected he had let students use the Mexican flag to taunt other students. As for his trampling the free speech rights of students, no such rights exist. The principle has a duty to keep good order on the campus, and in so doing may set out whatever rules are reasonable and necessary to do so.
This guy is just another flaming liberal that hates America first and most.
Could you link me to any information substantiating that? Thank you.
it is your JOB to monitor the situation.
You don't take away the privilege from all students.
This is basic stuff any educator would learn in college.
Well, if the flag is nowhere in the school the flag is the one that has been punished because of some people who misused it. If you want all flags banned then all kids have to do though out the country is follow their lead. The principal should have suspended the students in question for 3 days then when they come back to school have someone from the military come in and give a speech in the auditorium about flag etiquette etc. 45 minute lecture.
THe article doesnt say that. I suspect it started with a few kids and got out of control.
Have you bought the premise that it is abusive to wave our flag in the face of those who prefer to wave the Mexican flag?
"it is your JOB to monitor the situation"
The kids can't be watched all the time
The total nonsense in many of our public schools like this is the VERY reason why more parents are homeschooling their children or will do more in the future. Many of our schools are simply total cesspools for P/C nonsense and the people that run these insane asylums could NOT get a real job outside of their government school bureaucracies.
I graduated high school back in 1985 and even then you could see the beginning of the P/C ideology that has only gotten worse since.
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