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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LOL good point.
Were my grandfather still here to comment, it would be: "Respect is not demanded, it is earned".
Then, he'd wonder why all of these kids were not in school.
I most certainly do not want. You are demanding to know what I do in my personal life. I am not accountable to you. Now shoo.
I was not suggesting that you FRmail me on your personal life. I was suggesting that you FRmail me on why you said my question was improper.
If the law is struck down by the Feds, I think this country will go into civil war. And I think “they” know it.
I’d bet large money on it.
(see my post #82)
the most recent picture of bill ayers, standing on the AMERICA flag.
He’d fit right in here.
God help you if whites ever become as ethnocentric and race aware as blacks and Hispanics are as a matter of course every day.
Actually, it is the teachers who wear the hammer and sickle in their hearts, every single day.
On the contrary, he rightfully assumed the mexican students would not respect the students wearing an American flag.
"Yeeesssss wbiiiiiiilllll....it is your Grandpa..."
:)
I have found as I get older, that a lot of things my dad and grandfather said to me were spot on the money...it is hard to appreciate when you are 21...or at least it was for me!
It's something that I'm working on with my kids, although it's not something that can really be taught easily. You just need to figure it out for yourself.
I don’t know why, but that just struck me as incredibly funny!
Perhaps I was envisioning the Photoshops already, or perhaps it was the dissonance between, “Old Glory”, “The Stars and Stripes” and “The Worm and Chicken”.
It just seems ripe with...what? Can’t put my finger on that sometimes, and it has got me in trouble on occasion. I laugh at stuff, and my wife looks at me like I am possessed. Well, she is still with me, so I think I do amuse her on occasion too...
I agree completely. Good to hear you are making that effort. I do believe that is has two components: Respect of Self and Respect from Others.
If you don’t have any standards for yourself, then you cannot have respect for yourself. I do believe as well that if you don’t respect yourself, it is pretty rare to get it from others.
I think it is an important concept...good luck with it. (I’ll raise Bloomberg his .25 cents that YOUR kids DO get it...)
Well, it is not one in Mexico.
It is ONLY celebrated in the United States.
Hopefully this will spark a run on U.S. flag t-shirts as kids see it it as a rebellious act to illegitimate authority.
Good point.......and I will go one step further.....it is a good thing for American kids to push back against this corrosive form of PC even to the point of physical confrontation.....and I mean exactly what I said.....knocking some sense into these punks flying the meaxican flag would be appropiate.....forget lawyers and courts, this has to be handles in the street....when I was in high school in Camden NJ there were constant fist fights between the italian kids and the irish kids standing up for themselves...made men of us for the real troubles of the real world...dissing this country deserves a punch in the mouth!
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