Posted on 05/15/2015 7:06:21 PM PDT by Kaslin
Tom Balek with Watchdog.org is doing the kind of local reporting that I hope we see more of. This story comes from the not terribly exciting sounding environment of a high school in South Carolina. Peyton Robinson is a senior at the local school who is also a volunteer fireman and drives his own pickup truck. Mounted in the back are two flags… one the American flag and the other a POW/MIA flag. Unfortunately, Peyton showed up for school one day and found that his display was no longer welcome.
Peyton Robinson, a senior at York Comprehensive High School in York, S.C., has been driving his truck around our end of York County with two large flags attached to the bed – an American flag and one that honors military servicemen and women who have been taken as POWs (prisoners of war) or are MIA (missing in action).
On Wednesday, May 13, he was pulled from class and sent to meet an administrator in the parking lot, where he discovered his flags had been removed and placed in the bed of his truck. He was told by school officials, “Do not return to school with these flags.”
After school, Robinson drove home, re-mounted the flags, and decided that he was not going to allow anybody to mess with his truck, or his patriotism. He posted a photo of the American flag in his truck on social media with the promise: “Still flying, and it ain’t coming down.”
Here’s the offending vehicle.
The reasons that the school gave for removing Peyton’s flags were varying and not terribly convincing. They cited standing “school policy” which they could not produce in writing. They warned of safety concerns. (I sort of had some sympathy for that one because those are pretty big flags, but again, they had nothing to document it.) They also said that someone had complained. As I said… unconvincing.
The dispute made the local news and before they knew it the school had a wee bit of a problem on their hands. An impromptu parade formed up and the school suddenly had more than 70 flag waving vehicles parked in front of their entrance. Once that happened, there was an abrupt “change of policy” at the school, posted on their website. I’ll leave you to click through and read the verbal gymnastics they went through to let the community know that there weren’t in any way unpatriotic and that Peyton would be able to keep his flags.
One young man, a truck with two flags and a community full of people who admire the boy’s work ethic and patriotism. You never know what you can accomplish when you get the people up on their hind legs in support of a cause. Great article by Tom. Thanks for sharing this story.
Do it more often!!!
I know there are some wonderful teachers and administrators but the overwhelming majority of those folks teaching our children are not very bright.
Stupid and liberal is no way to go through life.
“”Deep seeded” (rather than “deep-seated”) and “Do to” rather than “Due to” have already been mentioned by other FReepers.”
If you go to their website now and read their “press release,” they’ve corrected several of the errors but not all of them.
These morons shouldn’t be anywhere near a school. The principal was on TV, he’s just some rube who can’t speak the English language either. The parents need to do some housecleaning.
The Administrators dancing on the rope thrice-cite the never printed never produced “policy” in their statement.
When will the ever learn?
Much cleaner just to admit “We never had written policy; the decision to remove the flags made arbitrarily and capriciously when a loud-mouthed liberal complained being ‘offended’ by the flags.”
When A complainer complains; a HUNDRED on the OTHER side of the fence should MAKE THEMSELVES HEARD!!
Like these IDIOTS that do not like PIG wrestling at a county fair.
If they do NOT want to get dirty; don't do it.
>Change the channel; Homeschool - whatever they tell us when WE complain about yet another STUPID idea that their teeny brains come up with.
In related news; DQ to continue to sell the stuff!
Liberals, as Pasternak said, are judged politically, rather than how effective they are as educators. That is how they keep their job, and with the protection of the UnionGoon Mafia. Do and due don’t matter. They are liberals and exempt from all rules.
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