Because they are afraid to stand up the the fascism of liberalism. Only liberals seek to stifle freedom of speech. Now, if he were to wear a t-shirt that said, "I support a woman's right to choose!" he would lauded as a hero.
Which means he was told 40 times his attire violated the dress code. I'd say this kid definitely lacks respect for authority.
Confederate “invader”? You do realize that the Union invaded the seceding states? Gettysburg was the sole exception, IIRC.
I live in Georgia and have high school aged kids. A while back Dixie Outfitters was the big rage. They had Rebel Flags on their clothing and I don’t recall anyone making a stink about it.
Just this weekend a bunch of the boys were at my house, some of them were black. Yet they did not seem to mind one bit to ride around in two trucks that had Rebel Flags displayed on them. One of the trucks had the flag on a pole in the back.
I’m not being insensative to the meaning of the flag but with the array of kids that hang out at my house, I never see all these silly racial issues come up. They nickname eachother with regard to race and make comments to eachother and yet they’ve all been friends since grade school.
I’ve seen Confederate flags displayed by individuals in several non-Confederate states, including not only border states which sided with the Union, but even in northern New England, the hotbed of anti-slavery feeling, where statues of Union soldiers stand in many public places.
The real question here is whether or not the ban on clothing that I emphasized above is being enforced as rigorously as the ban on Confederate flag adorned clothing is. If this is true, then it would be hard for me to see a problem with the ban, as schools have an obligation to maintain order and discipline in the classroom.
Of course, having issues with the school dress code only helps to make the case for being allowed to redirect one's school tax payments towards private schooling that would allow for the clothing in question instead, i.e., more of a free market in education.
Were you alive back then or do you insist on living in the past? Something that happened over a hundred and forty years ago does not make a good case for social constructs.
Do you feel the need to make reparations for slavery, too?
We should be teaching our kids that it is NOT words, images, and the like, that should be feared (and then banned by government decree), but rather, ACTIONS taken against us by anyone - including our government (local, state, or federal).
We now live in a society where people are too sensitive to mere WORDS, and are looking for any reason to sue for some PERCEIVED injustice.
What's the REAL harm in wearing a shirt, or belt buckle with a Confederate battle flag image on it?
There is NO actual harm.
The fact is, that image means different things to different people.
Is what a black person thinks about it more important than what a white person thinks about it?
You'd think that the Civil War (in the South, many of us call it "The War of Northern Aggression") was fought ONLY about slavery, and, unfortunately, that's what our kids government school books reflect.
Other things have been demonized as being hateful and insensitive by an all too sensitive, mainly liberal, black population (only approx. 14 percent of our population - you'd think they were the majority), and magnified and repeated by a sympathetic (I would say PATHETIC) left-wing mainstream media.
Why, you'd think that black people were the only ones EVER hanged using a rope with a hangman's noose. Never mind all of the white (and members of other races) horse thieves,criminals, etc. which have been hanged throughout our history.
It IS time for a PUSH BACK against all of the mindless, nonsensical PC that has enveloped our country.
I hope this boy, his family, and his lawyer/s are successful in their push-back.
Respect for authority is one thing, but when the government, be it local, state, or federal, tries to trample on my 1st Amendment, 2nd Amendment, or any other rights - as enumerated in the Bill of Rights - stand the f*** by.
Schools in this country really need to go with uniforms to nip nonsense like this in the bud.