Christiansburg High School students suspended for wearing Confederate Flag [southwest Virginia]

WSLS Television Roanoke Virginia ^ | 17 September 2015 | WSLS Jenna Zibton - Virginia Today Anchor

[mbarker12474]

1. Note the banning of car decals.
2. Note the claim that an offensive thing is, by definition, anything that upsets somebody. School policy.
3. The issue of banning particular things verses banning all symbols. The school is in the business of selecting which symbols are on and off the list.

4. Be wary of taking the claims of this or any news story as factual.

5. Enjoy!

The more important story (it seems to me) is that of banning decals on cars in the parking lot:

http://wsls.com/2015/09/14/christiansburg-high-school-bans-confederate-flags-in-parking-lot/

[jsanders2001]

Bring this flag to school, kids. You won't hear a peep and if you do BHO will have your back and claim you have the right to freedom of expression, then invite you to the WH for ice cream:

[bestintxas]

Why do they not go ahead and file assault charges on the kid, lock him up to stand trial?

Flag-waving is akin to treason nowadays.

[elcid1970]

Banning the Rebel flag will not change minds, but rather harden them.

[AppyPappy]

They are our rival high school.
The county banned the use of “mascots depicting religion or ethnicity”. We were, of course, the Indians so we became the Bruins.
The CHS mascot is the Blue Demons. They kept their mascot.

Next door in Giles County, they banned the 10 Commandments display from the school. Now you can’t get to the school without passing several displays of the 10 Commandments, including a truck trailer with the display. I suspect this will happen to CHS.

[I want the USA back]

Bull$hit. Liberals control the schools. They are telling us what they will do when they get complete power.

[tbw2]

Interesting that they aren’t banning Mexican flags. In fact, the courts have upheld other cases where kids were punished for wearing the American flag on Cinco de Mayo because it offended Mexicans in American schools.

[liberalism is suicide]

What if they wore UN flag T-shirts? “World citizens” would get a pass.

[rfreedom4u]

Each of these students should nitpick at the slightest little thing that they could claim as offensive by every other student. Then push the issue hard. Show them how stupid and petty the whole banning things can be.

[Dante3]

Good advice.

[envisio]

“”””each individual school can ban what they deem to be offensive.””””

‘They’ is the big word here. Depends on who ‘they’ are and who ‘they’ say it offends.
Who says it offends anyone? Obviously ‘they’.

[PapaBear3625]

It would be interesting if somebody declared that Mexican Flag t-shirts or pro-gay t-shirts offended them.

Who would be suspended? The t-shirt wearer, or the persons claiming offensiveness?

[DuncanWaring]

The county banned the use of “mascots depicting religion or ethnicity”. We were, of course, the Indians so we became the Bruins.

Oh No!

Now you're the Ursan-Americans!

[mbarker12474]

When did Godless liberals invade Giles and and Montgomery counties and the rest of southwest Virginia?

What’s next? Abolishing cows from Va Tech? Beer bellies? Pickup trucks? Appalachian accents?

[Triple]

The students should file complaints against anyone wearing a red shirt or tie - since red is the color of commies and totalitarians.

Ban RED!

[Triple]

The students should file complaints against anyone wearing a red shirt or tie - since red is the color of commies and totalitarians.

Ban RED!

[Triple]

The students should file complaints against anyone wearing a red shirt or tie - since red is the color of commies and totalitarians.

Ban RED!

[Triple]

The students should file complaints against anyone wearing a red shirt or tie - since red is the color of commies and totalitarians.

Ban RED!

[Himyar]

It certainly has down here in the deep South.

[vpintheak]

Sounds like they all get a trip to the White house! That’s what happens to kids who are unjustly booted out of school, right?