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Student Is Denied High School Diploma for Wearing Mexican Flag
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | June 6, 2021 | Jesus Jiménez

Posted on 06/06/2021 9:12:06 PM PDT by artichokegrower

Ever Lopez of Asheboro, North Carolina, was set to become the first member of his immediate family to graduate from high school, but instead, he said, he was denied his diploma because he wore a Mexican flag over his gown at his graduation ceremony Thursday.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: North Carolina
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What would happen if a kid wore a Confederate flag at graduation?
1 posted on 06/06/2021 9:12:06 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

Graduation ceremonies are all about conformity vs. individuality.

Up my way most of the High Schools required uniform matching face masks even though the ceremonies were outdoors!

A few non conformists in the crowd but not enough...


2 posted on 06/06/2021 9:14:55 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: artichokegrower

They were allowed to decorate their mortarboards.

He chose to NOT follow the dress code.

The usual suspects are lining up to shout their favorite word. Again.


3 posted on 06/06/2021 9:15:11 PM PDT by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: artichokegrower

Surely he graduated, but he didn’t get to do the ceremony.

You don’t flunk graduation because you don’t go to get your fake diploma.


4 posted on 06/06/2021 9:15:56 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: artichokegrower

I read that story earlier. The student still does not get why he was in the wrong wrapping himself in the Mexican flag at a graduation ceremony. Since this is year 2021, it’s no surprise that thousands of students signed a petition that he should get his diploma anyway. I’m glad the school didn’t cave.


5 posted on 06/06/2021 9:16:14 PM PDT by lee martell
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he can wear the flag after the ceremony and take pics then

i dont have a problem with dress codes

do your publicity/political stunts after the ceremony or before it


6 posted on 06/06/2021 9:17:42 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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“What would happen if a kid wore a Confederate flag at graduation?”

The SF Chronicle would rediscover its love of the death penalty.


7 posted on 06/06/2021 9:22:08 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: artichokegrower

Send his diploma to mexico and tell him to go get it, then don’t let him back in.


8 posted on 06/06/2021 9:27:12 PM PDT by Trillian
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Bet he has a sad now since the USA just beat Meh-Hee-Co to win the Nations League Final.


9 posted on 06/06/2021 9:29:04 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: artichokegrower

If you read the quotes attributed to the kid, it seems clear he was pushed through the system. He is probably more comfortable communicating in sentences of two letter words and numbers.


10 posted on 06/06/2021 9:31:39 PM PDT by Yogafist
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To: artichokegrower

Since he loves Mexico so much, send him back there.


11 posted on 06/06/2021 9:34:31 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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They cant deny him his diploma, it’ll get mailed to him.


12 posted on 06/06/2021 9:34:39 PM PDT by Husker24 (Pp)
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To: artichokegrower

I call bs.


13 posted on 06/06/2021 9:34:54 PM PDT by ifinnegan ( Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: artichokegrower

He’s not graduating from a Mexican high school.
What a dipschit!
If he doesn’t know where he is he doesn’t deserve a diploma anyway...,


14 posted on 06/06/2021 9:35:02 PM PDT by doc maverick
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If only he were as proud of the U.S.


15 posted on 06/06/2021 9:35:29 PM PDT by KittyKares (I miss President Trump!)
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Since he loves Mexico so much, send him back there.

He can get on the plane with their loser soccer team.

16 posted on 06/06/2021 9:35:36 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: artichokegrower

As is proper. If this student wanted to graduate and represent Mexico he should have attended and graduated from a Mexican University. To Dis America in this way is unacceptable. He does not deserve an American university diploma. He should apply for Transfer Credits to the Mexican university of his choice and move to that country to pursue his career opportunities.


17 posted on 06/06/2021 9:35:49 PM PDT by ocrp1982 ( Bibicly)
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GO HOME! OR BECOME AN AMERICAN. Quit bringing your failed ways with you. If you think where you came from was so wonderful, why the f are your here? It is NOT uncommon for people to move from one place to another. IT IS IDIOTIC FOR SOMEONE TO WANT TO TURN THE PLACE THEY FLED TO INTO THE SAME CRAPHOLE THEY FLED FROM!!!


18 posted on 06/06/2021 9:40:47 PM PDT by The Right Edge (Staunch Trump Supporter AND PROUD to be!)
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To: lightman

My graduation ceremony... I remember it well. The drama was wither I would haul off and deck the “class president” for instigating a fight between me and a couple of guys. Actually he instigated the fight against one guy, but the fella was too cowardly to handle his business alone... so he brought a buddy. 2 on 1. The trouble for them was that I had a friend nearby and it became even. Then they went from wanting to kick my ass to wanting to talk. To this day, I still don’t understand the whole thing. I guess the class president was just a budding “politician” (meaning a liar and an a-hole).


19 posted on 06/06/2021 9:54:00 PM PDT by The Right Edge (Staunch Trump Supporter AND PROUD to be!)
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The little shithead doesn’t want to acknowledge that he got his “real” education in the United States, not Mexico. Obviously his parents knew something he didn’t learn or hasn’t learned yet, namely that “America is great”.

Now, if this were other “politically correct” schools and he was to wear the American flag, he would have been stripped of his diploma, flunked for his senior year, ostracized as an “American nationalist/supremacist”, and tied to a burro and dragged through the streets of his home city/town.

I’m glad this school is united in being “Americans”. Let’s see how long before it is burned to the ground.


20 posted on 06/06/2021 10:04:59 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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