Students Kicked Off Campus for Wearing American Flag Tees

www.nbcbayarea.com ^ | 5/6/2010

[PhxRising]

NBC Bay Area On any other day at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, Daniel Galli and his four friends would not even be noticed for wearing T-shirts with the American flag. But Cinco de Mayo is not any typical day especially on a campus with a large Mexican American student population.

Galli says he and his friends were sitting at a table during brunch break when the vice principal asked two of the boys to remove American flag bandannas that they wearing on their heads and for the others to turn their American flag T-shirts inside out. When they refused, the boys were ordered to go to the principal's office.

"They said we could wear it on any other day," Daniel Galli said, "but today is sensitive to Mexican-Americans because it's supposed to be their holiday so we were not allowed to wear it today."

The boys said the administrators called their T-shirts "incendiary" that would lead to fights on campus.

[doesnt suffer fools gladly]

Looks like every day is Taco Day for Laura.

[Bob]

Hispanic students from Live Oak staged their own march today. (I have no idea what they might have been 'protesting'.)

In mid-morning, a group of 50 to 75 students (and a few parents) passed through downtown and went to the city's Community and Cultural Center about a mile down the street. As they waved their Mexican flags and chanted "Mexico! Mexico!" and "Give it back!", they proceeded down the street.

I have no idea what went on down at the center but, about half an hour to forty five minutes later, they returned through downtown and went on to the Civic Center.