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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Last night O’Riley exposed his racism by stating HE would have done the same thing as the principal.
To: SeekAndFind
>>“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.<<”
Idiot, school is closed on July 4th for BBQ’s.
I seem to recall hippies cutting up the flag and resewing it into clothes. Some folks called that incendiary, but the lefties seemed to think it was just fine.
...and Roger...nobody’s in school on the Fourth of July.
What did you do on 5/5 to protest Cinco de Mayo?
I dont like where this is heading.
Francine, you brainless twit - it’s not the latino community that needs supporting in CA. These kids who mouth slogans and regurgitate the crap they’ve been fed by racists make me alternately pissed and sad.
Colonel, USAFR
Like film critic Roger Ebert. He has a solution.
“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.
This is so stupid on so many levels. What is the relevance?
I understand, but if the new law is struck down by the feds, Arizona will be in the same boat as California. With over 450,000 illegals in Arizona, how many more will it take to take control of the State? If the President doesn’t uphold Arizona’s law, he should be impeached.
I trust that’s a rhetorical question.
Your flag graphic says it all in a nutshell.
Were they to reverse the flags with old glory on top and the larger of the two,(upside down is not a bad idea either) this whole thing would not be an issue.
That is the result of a lack of education, Thank you public schools.
Remember the Ammo!
Skipping school.... no punishment
wearing a patriotic shirt.... punishment
Mexicans celebrate mayo de sicko day, defeating the french. Why can’t our congress pass remember d Alamo day?
If the US flag offends you. Then go somewhere else.
FIFY (I couldn't resist ;-)
Aren’t they reporting this as a “student” march? If so, what is a 2005 graduate doing there? Sounds more like an organized march to me.
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