Posted on 04/06/2006 8:05:53 PM PDT by bulldozer
DENVER -- Several students at Shaw Heights Middle School have been disciplined for wearing shirts that depict the American flag, an act that is in direct violation of the public school's recent ban on all flags, depictions of flags, or flag colors on student clothing.
One student said he was suspended for wearing a DARE program shirt with a flag behind the logo. Another student, Katie Golgart, said she was suspended for wearing a Marine Corps shirt.
"I'm gonna going to school and wear another Marine shirt just to show that I support my brother and what he does," Haas said.
The students' parents are behind them 100 percent and are willing to fight the schools' ban, saying that it's a fight that they are going to win.
"I did let her (the principal) know that I would fight her on this because I knew I was right. And that's exactly what it is. We are right to wear our flag. We are right for my daughter to wear her United States Marine Corps shirt to support the Marines -- future, present and past," said Eric Golgart, who is the son of a U.S. Marine.
Elizabeth Haas, told reporters that she was told to turn her Marine Corps shirt inside out and when she did and then turned it back the right way, she was suspended. Haas, an 11-year-old sixth grader, said that she wears a USMC shirt every day to support her brother, who is in the Corps, and she wasn't aware of the ban until she was suspended.
All of the students who were suspended said they had a connection to the military -- either they have a family member now serving or someone in the family had once served.
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Semper fi.
The ACLU is a domestic terrorist group.
Where is the Marine Corps ?
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