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Colorado High School Tells Student to Remove US Flag From Truck… It’s Offensive
Gateway Pundit ^ | 9-6-10 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 09/06/2010 11:50:46 AM PDT by Justaham

Security officials told the student they focus on diversity at the school and they don’t want anyone to feel uncomfortable.

A high school student in Northglenn is upset that campus security told him to remove the large American flags flying from his pickup truck because it might make others uncomfortable.

Jeremy Stoppel told 7NEWS he got a ticket at Northglenn High School last Thursday for squealing his tires. He said he deserved that ticket and deserved having his parking lot pass suspended for two weeks.

But he’s upset that campus security then told him he can’t fly his 3 feet by 5 feet flags in the bed of his pickup truck anymore.

“She said I should take my flags down. She said this is a school that focuses on diversity and she doesn’t want anyone to feel uncomfortable,” Stoppel said. “How do you suppose anyone would feel uncomfortable in America with an American flag? That’s where I’m confused.”


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To: abner
Here's 400,000 pounds of too much American flag for the school...


61 posted on 09/06/2010 12:54:56 PM PDT by 6SJ7 (atlasShruggedInd = TRUE)
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To: LetMarch

As James Taranto reported in Best of the Web, last week, those who hate their own culture and symbols are Oikophobes, the opposite of xenophobes. They hate their own culture because they dream of a borderless world, free of nationalism, with a one world government and socialism.


62 posted on 09/06/2010 12:56:17 PM PDT by Eva
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To: Justaham

I too wondered if the security guard who started this is Mexican, or maybe an illegal. The latter wouldn’t surprise me.


63 posted on 09/06/2010 12:56:25 PM PDT by Solitar ("My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them." -- Barry Goldwater)
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To: Justaham

We pay your salary! you work for the people, shut up and sit down


64 posted on 09/06/2010 12:56:50 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (We are our founding fathers keepers)
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To: nuconvert
Your post needs bumped for the kneejerks.."I read this story yesterday. This is misleading.... The school did NOT tell the student that he couldn’t have the flags on his truck. It was a security guard who took it upon herself to tell the kid he shouldn’t fly the flags. The school officials, however, said that the security guard didn’t have the authority to tell the student that and they would speak with her. The school said they have flags all over the school and wouldn’t have a policy that didn’t allow the students to display a flag."
65 posted on 09/06/2010 12:57:53 PM PDT by Dust in the Wind (U S Troops Rock)
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To: Justaham

Then he should switch to the Confederate Flag, I’m just sayin.


66 posted on 09/06/2010 1:01:55 PM PDT by Rappini ("Pro deo et Patria.)
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To: Flag_This
Ask the geniuses what "E pluribus unum" means.

Do you remember when Al Gore said it meant "Out of one, many?"

67 posted on 09/06/2010 1:06:46 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: abner
I wish I could do that to my motor home. It's a ‘73, and has that corrugated aluminum skin that makes putting anything on it an impossibility.
68 posted on 09/06/2010 1:10:23 PM PDT by Excellence ("A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it.")
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To: Justaham
"she doesn’t want anyone to feel uncomfortable.”

She obviously doesn't mind making Jeremy Stoppel feel uncomfortable.

69 posted on 09/06/2010 1:36:16 PM PDT by Savage Beast ("True evil has a face you know and a voice you trust." Greg Iles. "True Evil")
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To: Justaham
"she doesn’t want anyone to feel uncomfortable.”

She obviously doesn't mind making Jeremy Stoppel feel uncomfortable.

70 posted on 09/06/2010 1:36:19 PM PDT by Savage Beast ("True evil has a face you know and a voice you trust." Greg Iles. "True Evil")
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To: Justaham

Burning the flag is “freedom of speech”, but displaying it is not?


71 posted on 09/06/2010 1:38:06 PM PDT by Savage Beast ("True evil has a face you know and a voice you trust." Greg Iles. "True Evil")
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To: Justaham

People living in the United States of America who are offended by the flag of the United States of America should do themselves a huge favor and move to whatever country it is which flag does not offend them.

Seriously.


72 posted on 09/06/2010 1:41:26 PM PDT by savedbygrace (Rev 22:20 He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord)
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To: Justaham

New Maryland tags won’t be allowd either, I guess

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2010-06-11/news/bs-md-1812-war-plate-20100611_1_glen-burnie-headquarters-license-plate-motor-vehicle-administration


73 posted on 09/06/2010 1:51:45 PM PDT by 99tango
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To: Pearls Before Swine
"Do you remember when Al Gore said it meant "Out of one, many?"

Would we ever be allowed to forget if President Bush (either one) had ever said anything so monumentally stupid?

74 posted on 09/06/2010 2:13:51 PM PDT by Flag_This (Real presidents don't bow.)
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To: JenB; Tired of Taxes; wintertime

Here’s another one. You know who to ping.


75 posted on 09/06/2010 3:32:56 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Obama's more worried about Israelis building houses than he is about Islamists building atomic bombs)
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To: Dust in the Wind

Gateway Pundit is really at fault for not presenting the entire article on his blog.


76 posted on 09/06/2010 3:52:48 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: Justaham

If the flag of the USA is offensive to the school administration then fly a Nazi flag, a USSR flag, or Imperial Japanese flag. Or to really offend them fly a flag from Mozambique. I am sure the picture of the AK-47 on it would really offend them.


77 posted on 09/06/2010 4:30:32 PM PDT by Chewbacca (woof woof. That's my other wookie impression.)
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To: nuconvert

Well I thank you for the correct version. I will admit to similer thoughts as those who wanted to run’er out on a rail...


78 posted on 09/06/2010 5:03:44 PM PDT by Dust in the Wind (U S Troops Rock)
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To: Artemis Webb

Thank you. Post #18 didn’t yet exist when I hit Reply. Glad to see sanity prevailed.


79 posted on 09/07/2010 4:58:47 AM PDT by RansomOttawa (tm)
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To: 2Jedismom; 6amgelsmama; AAABEST; aberaussie; Aggie Mama; agrace; AliVeritas; AlmaKing; AngieGal; ...

ANOTHER REASON TO HOMESCHOOL

This ping list is for the “other” articles of interest to homeschoolers about education and public school. This can occasionally be a fairly high volume list. Articles pinged to the Another Reason to Homeschool List will be given the keyword of ARTH. (If I remember. If I forget, please feel free to add it yourself) The main Homeschool Ping List handles the homeschool-specific articles. I hold both the Homeschool Ping List and the Another Reason to Homeschool Ping list. Please freepmail me to let me know if you would like to be added to or removed from either list, or both.
80 posted on 09/07/2010 7:45:43 AM PDT by JenB
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