Posted on 05/07/2010 8:34:53 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Tensions are rising at a California high school where five students were sent home for wearing American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo.
More than 200 Hispanic students reportedly skipped class on Thursday and marched to school district headquarters while chanting "we want respect" and "si se puedes" -- "yes we can" -- the Morgan Hill Times reported.
"We did this to support the Latino/Hispanic community," Francine Roa, a 2005 Live Oak High School graduate, told the newspaper.
At least six Morgan Hill police vehicles traveled alongside the students, many of whom carried Mexican flags. No arrests were made related to the march, the newspaper reported.
Police have been told to be on alert for gang-related retaliation against the boys, according to Ken Jones, whose stepson, Daniel Galli, was one of the students who refused to turn their T-shirts inside-out when asked by a vice principal on Wednesday.
"We just want this whole thing to die down," Jones told FoxNews.com. "We're not trying to keep these flames firing."
The five teens -- Galli, Austin Carvalho, Matt Dariano, Dominic Maciel and Clayton Howard -- were sitting at a table outside Live Oak High School Wednesday morning when Assistant Principal Miguel Rodriguez asked two of them to remove their American flag bandannas, one of the boys' parents told FoxNews.com. The youths complied, but were asked to accompany Rodriguez to the principal's office.
The students were then told they must turn their T-shirts inside-out or be sent home, though it would not be considered a suspension. Rodriguez told the students he did not want any fights to break out between Mexican-American students celebrating their heritage and those wearing American flags, the parent said.
But Jones said the preemptive action was unnecessary, and that Rodriguez "overstepped his bounds."
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“We just want this whole thing to die down,”
Sorry, sir but you need to slap these MExicans down — and hard.
What a great country we have! It is so good to know that we recognize days that are not even holidays.
More here :
http://mystateline.com/fulltext-news/?nxd_id=159445
More Controversy Over Students’ Decision To Sport American Flag Gear
(Morgan Hill, CA) — Another high school’s been caught up in the dust-up over the California teens who wore American flag shirts and bandanas on Cinco de Mayo.
The Live Oak High School in Sutter County, California is posting sheriff’s deputies on campus today after it received a threat of violence yesterday.
A phone caller threatened to bomb Live Oak or shoot students.
The caller had the wrong Live Oak, however.
It was the one in nearby Morgan Hill, California where high schoolers irked Hispanic classmates on May 5th.
The American flag wearing students at the Morgan Hill school were asked to remove the bandanas from their heads and turn their t-shirts inside-out.
The incident took place on Cinco de Mayo, a holiday that celebrates freedom, liberty and the Mexican culture and customs.
The boys went home to avoid being suspended.
Yesterday, about a hundred of their classmates protested their actions in front of the school and eventually marched down the road to the Morgan Hill City Hall.
The principle can explain his “racism.”
Deport the little cucarachas to Juarez.
The question for the school is, do they ban the flag on St. Patrick’s Day?
“”We did this to support the Latino/Hispanic community,” Francine Roa, a 2005 Live Oak High School graduate, told the newspaper.”
It is NEVER about the support of the USA with this group!
If they are walking carrying Mexican flags, why didn’t the police turn them south so they can find their way home? Follow the flags. Oh yeah, now Americans become targets if they fly their flag? Nice immigrant.
Yo, Francine... why aren't you at work doing "the job Americans won't do?"
More proof that we as a nation are finished.
Note to self: stop at gun store and buy more .45 rounds
Remember the Alamo!
Ah yes, Police protection to further amplify the disregard for the American Flag its legal citizens.
“Kids who wear American Flag T-shirts on 5 May should have to share a lunchroom table with those who wear a hammer and sickle on 4 July,” he tweeted.
they do.
and many of those are their teachers- good prep for what they can expect in college.
As the numbers of illegals grow, it will become harder and harder for your politicians and police departments to stand up and take care of the problem. The politicians will give in and then they will tell our police to handle the problem. It’s going to get worse folks, if and only if, the people of this country start STANDING UP and demand the closing of our borders and the elimination of the gangs that are running our cities.
“More than 200 Hispanic students reportedly skipped class on Thursday and marched to school district headquarters while chanting “we want respect””
Fundamental character flaws in this group of people.
Why again is that old pinko Ebert still taking in oxygen?
STFU, Roger.
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