Posted on 03/10/2024 11:35:30 AM PDT by Skywise
A high school in southeastern Indiana came under fire on Thursday after forcing a student to remove an American flag from his vehicle.
The student’s mother relayed the events in a social media post.
Cameron Blasek, a senior at East Central High School in St. Leon, was called into the principal’s office on Thursday and was told to remove the flag or be written up for insubordination.
The post says that after being told to take the flag off his truck, he pulled out the school’s handbook and “pointed out that nowhere in the handbook does it mention the word flag or that you can not have a flag on your vehicle.”
Blasek also cited federal law, which says it is legal to fly the American flag as long as safety laws are followed.
Following the incident, around two dozen students rallied behind Blasek, showing up at the school with American flags on their vehicles.
(Excerpt) Read more at wishtv.com ...
Principal Tom Black said in a letter issued to community members on Friday, “After careful consideration and in recognition of the importance of the US flag as a symbol of unity and national identity, I am pleased to inform you that we are allowing the display of the US flag by students in the East Central High School parking lot.”
The post added that the administration told Blasek that the school’s handbook would be updated in the 2024-25 school year to say students can’t fly American flags in the parking lot.
Facebook blog post here - https://archive.ph/wAlqP
What a freakin' idiot this principal was! Did he think it was going to end in any fashion other than mass defiance and a humiliating reversal?
And in SE Indiana, no less. Shameful.
We The People run this show and we need to put our elected officials back in their place. Right Now !
“After careful consideration...” — Principal Tom Black
Pansy-assed principal! What the hell was there to “consider.”
I’m surprised the weasel didn’t squeeze in an “Out of an abundance of caution” to go with his “consideration.”
In ats least one elementary school a teacher had to remove the American flag from a classroom because it made immigrant children in class uncomfortable seeing it.
Many more stories....
Massachusetts college stops flying US flag on campus.
CNN
Nov 23, 2016 — Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts has removed all flags from campus after a US flag being flown half-staff was burned.
I bet he has no problem with the faggot flag flying anywhere
In ats least one elementary school a teacher had to remove the American flag from a classroom because it made immigrant children in class uncomfortable seeing it.
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Even worse, they’re IN America! Imagine the horror! They should go back home immediately!
Will the school also ban the pride flag, the BLM flag, or the trans flag? We have reached a point in this country where those flags actually have more legal protection than the American flag. You can burn the American flag with impunity, but burning any of those other flags will get you charged with a hate crime.
Tom Black should be removed from the school
SE Indiana is burb of Chicago.
Sorry, that would be NE Indiana.
Indiana state government needs to take action on this.
Agree.
And don’t let the screen door hit ya’ where the good Lord split ya’.
That school is in a suburb of Cincinnati
The post added that the administration told Blasek that the school’s handbook would be updated in the 2024-25 school year to say students can’t fly American flags in the parking lot.
This High School looks to be in a rural farming community. I'm sure there will be plenty of push back if this idiot principal tries this again.
He needs to be fired and lose his 250K per year job.
I bet it was the “teacher” that was “uncomfortable” with the flag, not the students.
“...The post added that the administration told Blasek that the school’s handbook would be updated in the 2024-25 school year to say students can’t fly American flags in the parking lot...”
But the principal is changing the handbook so next year the American Flag CANNOT be flown!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Maybe NW?
I think you are very confused about geography. NorthWest Indiana is close to Chicago, not NorthEast Indiana which is not really near any large city except that Ft Wayne is in that section of the state. This is SouthEast Indiana. Largest nearby city is Cincinnati.
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