Posted on 02/10/2007 3:04:28 PM PST by Stoat
By Martha Deller
McClatchy Newspapers
(MCT)
DALLAS - Two Burleson High School students filed a federal lawsuit Friday against the Burleson school district over a year-old incident in which school officials denied them the right to carry Confederate battle flag purses to school.
Attorneys for the Southern Legal Resource Center prepared the lawsuit on behalf of Aubrie Michelle McAllum and Ashley Paige Thomas, who contend their constitutional rights were violated in January 2006 when school officials prevented them from carrying their new purses to school.
The teens were not punished for carrying the purses, but were sent home when they refused to turn them over. They were also told not to bring them to school again. The next day, when they returned to school with the purses wrapped in black cloth marked "censored," they were again sent home.
The lawsuit alleges that the district selectively applied the dress code by singling out the Confederate flag for exclusion while permitting students to wear other controversial symbols, including the swastika.
After a lengthy appeals process in which the girls' attorneys attempted to get the district to lift the ban on the flag attire, the federal lawsuit is seeking a declaration that the girls' rights were violated, removal of any disciplinary action from their records and unspecified monetary damages.
The suit names high school principal Paul Cash as well as school trustees.
Trapped? The people in East Berlin were trapped. You're just not really interested in leaving.
Trapped? The people in East Berlin were trapped. You're just not really interested in leaving.
Nope, I have responsibilities which keep me here. I would have left long ago if it were not for that.
Things won't always be this way however, and I will one day be able to find the Promised Land :-)
Thanks for the flag, stoat
I've combined the elements of this situation to form an equation:
(Brain-dead, politically-correct, leftwing school administrator)
+
(plus)
( 
X 
)
(Ladies' purse multiplied by pride in our Nation and it's History)
= 
(equals) (She-Ra, the Warrior Princess opening up a can-o-whoopass)
You're quite welcome and thank you for pinging your list :-)
Hopefully our prayers and good wishes will help these young ladies toward victory in their noble cause.
What is interesting to me about all this is why the left wing elites are so obsessed with destroying the noble legacy of the confederacy.
It's not slavery that bothers them it's the idea that the US Constitution means what it says and greatly limits the federal government's authority.
The wrong side won the civil war.
Yes. Unfortunately we'll all either end up as slaves or fight the war over again until we get it right.
Don't concede the Unionist position by calling the War Between the States a "Civil War." By calling it a "Civil War" you presuppose the conflict to have been an internal struggle between one people bound together in a single indivisible nation. But in a very real sense the proposition that the United States were one nation indivisible was the fundamental issue in dispute between the parties.
Referring to the conflict as the "War Between the States" is a relatively neutral way to describe accurately the conflict. If you want to give the unionists a taste of their own medicine refer to the conflict as the "War of Northern Aggression" or the "War for Southern Independence." These monikers are the Southern equivalents of calling the conflict the "Civil War."
It is a measure of how deeply the unionist view has permeated the culture that any reference to the conflict other than the "Civil War" is now considered strange and confusing even in the South. But this only reflects the fact that history is written by the victors.
Again, in a very real sense, the assault by the PC left on Southern history is just the modern day incarnation of Reconstruction.
Yes indeed.
Or gay/lesbian symbols?
Sounds like a nice place to live.
<<< Adding "South Alabama" to my list of places to visit.
You have some of the sanest responses I've seen when this subject comes up! I'm surprised that the "usual suspects" haven't found this thread yet!
Agreed, and I'm delighted that it's a pair of young-uns who are doing it. This shows their detractors that the principles that they are fighting for are fresh, relevant and timeless, and not antiquated canards that only people from another era are interested in.
The school district should have paid attention to the slogan "Don't mess with Texas!" :-)
The article states that the school allows swastikas, so I'm guessing that Che or Mao shirts would have been embraced with the sort of warm fuzziness that Leftists reserve for 'young fellow-travellers".
I haven't been to this particular community and I don't know what their ideological demographics are like. I've heard some Texans here at FR refer to Austin as "the Berkeley of Texas" and so I guess even the Great Lone Star State has it's pockets of Leftist insanity.
Here in Western Washington, Che or Mao T-shirts wouldn't be given a second glance. "sigh"
Amen!! Look's like this crowd can handle'em.
The ACLU only defends the leftists and Democrats.
That's good to hear, and hopefully these young ladies will be victorious. Such a win might motivate them to pursue careers in law or politics, and we would all certainly be Blessed if they did.
Good luck to the Texas sweethearts from one of the few flying
the stars and bars in MN!
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