Posted on 05/27/2023 7:45:51 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
A Colorado high school senior is taking legal action against her school district after officials denied her request to wear a sash with an image of the U.S. and Mexican flags during her upcoming graduation.
The district’s decision is a violation of Naomi Villasano’s constitutionally protected right to free speech, according to a lawsuit filed by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), a Latino legal civil rights organization, and the Greenberg Traurig, LLP, law firm.
According to the lawsuit involving Garfield County School District 16, Grand Valley High School Principal Kelly McCormick told Villasano, who's 18, that she couldn't wear the sash despite acknowledging that the school, located in the town of Parachute, didn't have a specific written policy about regalia worn on or over the graduation gown.
Garfield County School District Superintendent Jennifer Baugh followed up by emailing Villasano and writing, “The district didn’t permit flags on regalia because it didn’t want to open the door to a student wearing a Confederate flag pin or flag that would cause offense,” the lawsuit stated.
Villasano, the daughter of Mexican immigrants, argued before the school board that she's “a 200 percenter — 100% American and 100% Mexican,” and stated in the MALDEF news release that “it is important for me to represent my culture not only for myself but for my family."
The lawsuit claims she is being denied her right to free speech and calls upon the defendants to let her wear the sash at her graduation on Saturday.
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I don’t believe Mexico paid any of the taxes for her edumication.
Maybe she should stop being a racist.
Just a suggestion.
“I can’t shove my multiculturalism in people’s faces and make this graduation about meeee, so I’m suing!”
I’ll bet the dress code says no non-education sashes at all.
I'll bet the door would be open for someone wearing a rainbow sash.
Send her back to Mexico.
Garfield County School District Superintendent Jennifer Baugh followed up by emailing Villasano and writing, “The district didn’t permit flags on regalia because it didn’t want to open the door to a student wearing a Confederate flag pin or flag that would cause offense,”
That’s another young person who should stop being a racist.
GMTA! My thoughts exactly. Her family deserted Mehico and sought asylum in America. Obviously, the little retard didn’t learn anything in school. She is attacking Native Americans for being allowed to wear their NATIVE AMERICAN regalia. She should try to claim her Mehican flag to be the same thing. Stupid bimbo must think Mehico is an America state. They don’t call them NATIVE AMERICANS FOR NOTHING. It offends me what she did to my American flag. She should go back to Mexico and proudly wave her flag. Don’t try waving that rag in the faces of AMERICANS. Mexico gave her nothing. Everything she has was given to her ass by Americans. Don’t insult us with your flag.
Choose.
200 percenter???
That tells me she doesn’t wish to really be American
That is NEW-—
How much did Mexico donate for her education???
Move to Mexico if you love it so much. You can wear the Mexican flag all day long.
Get lost pendeja.
A public school has students, not leaders, not activists.
You are there to learn, not subvert the program. If the program goes against your beliefs, then parents are the mouth pieces not the students.
The PTA went to hell in my generation when they added the "S".. as in, lets ask the "S"tupids how we should teach.
“diversity is our biggest strength” they said.
Isn’t it truly amazing that they invade our country and steal our resources and our childrens’ futures, and yet they aren’t even grateful. They still hate us. They are total psychopaths.
“ “I can’t shove my multiculturalism in people’s faces and make this graduation about meeee, so I’m suing!”
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That’s what the native Indians are doing in my state so they wear their garb on stage for attention
Probably an Islamic sash too.
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