Posted on 09/18/2014 12:29:16 PM PDT by thetallguy24
It’s official: the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has issued an order declining a request for an en banc hearing in a case involving four students in at a California high school who were sent home for wearing American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo.
The full slate of Ninth Circuit judges has thus agreed with a lower district court and with a trio of appellate judges that officials at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, Calif. could censor students who wanted to wear flag-emblazoned shirts.
The federal appeals court issued its denial of an en banc hearing on Sept. 17 — Constitution Day.
“[N]o further petitions shall be permitted,” the court ordered.
The trouble dates back to Cinco de Mayo (May 5) in 2010, when officials at Live Oak High — a school with a predominant Mexican-American student body — forced the students to remove their American flag-festooned shirts. Administrators called the shirts “incendiary” and worried that fighting would break out between white and Latino students if Latino students noticed the shirts. So, assistant principal Miguel Rodriguez told the students to turn their shirts inside out or leave school.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Aye, there's the problem.
If the Mexicans were back in MEXICO where they are LEGAL then they couldn't be offended.
Hello, and then maybe the education system could focus on education where they are failing as American students continue to tumble down the list behind students of many nations that devote a mere fraction of the cost per pupil that America does in "education".
This is what comes of any organization controlled by Marxist: failure of its primary function while cost "necessarily skyrockets".
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