Posted on 01/06/2006 12:05:39 PM PST by stainlessbanner
BURLESON — Two North Texas high school students who were kicked out of class for displaying rebel flags vow to take their fight to court. They said they are proud of their heritage, but Burleson High School education officials maintain the Confederate symbol is offensive.
Ashley Thomas remembered how it all started. "Principal comes up and says, 'You've got to get rid of your purse... it's racist."
Ashley and Aubrie McAllum both received purses patterened after the Confederate battle flag from their parents for Christmas. Both girls decided to take their presents to school.
"I don't have 'KKK' written on me or anything; it's just a purse," Aubrie said. "Doesn't have anything to do with what color you are."
The students were asked to leave their purses with the principal; they elected to leave school after calling their parents.
Ashley was sent home three times this week. "I'm at the point where I really don't know what to do," she said. "I want to keep going to school and get my education, but this is my life. I was born and raised in the South. Why is the flag so bad?"
Here's the answer, from Burleson ISD spokesman Richard Crummel: "It's a violation of the dress code," he said. "We don't want students to wear anything that might cause a disruption, and that symbol has done that in the past."
"Then that's a heritage violation on her, on me... on all of us," said Aubrie's father, Rick McAllum. "So we can push it."
McAllum belongs to the Sons of Confederate Veterans. Ashley's mom, Joni Thomas, is from New York. But the parents of both girls praised their daughters, and vowed to fight.
"I'm hiring a lawyer," Thomas said. "I'm going all the way with it, because I think it's wrong."
Burleson High School, with a 2,200 student enrollment, is about 90 percent white, 8 or 9 percent Hispanic. There are very few African Americans.
"We want to be sensitive to everyone; make it comfortable in school for all our students," Crummel said.
Both girls said they have never been in trouble and don't want trouble now.
But they don't want to back down, either.
School officials know controversy often follows the Confederate flag, and they will not let it in.
The girls as of Friday, decided to go back to school
So, I can't interest you in a "General Sherman, I Came. I Saw. I Barbecued!" Apron?
The only thing I'd be interested in is the location of his gravesite, as I wouldn't mind taking a dump on it.
He's buried in St. Louis...
The inaccurate terms civil war and war between the states mean the same thing, a war between two factions in the same country.
The south seceded and became a separate nation.
Actually Lincoln looked at this as a possible solution to the cultural problems of trying to integrate free blacks into white society. Considering that a civil war was being fought with that as one of the major issues, one has to accept that this was definitely a problem. However Lincoln never advocated making such exportation mandatory and his thoughts on it were purely speculative.
It was about states' rights more than about slavery. It worked out for the North, the states have fewer and fewer rights. It was never set up that way in the first place.
So,dress codes trumph the constitution?In that case i find the "sissy rainbow" and the "peace symbol" offensive!I think the failed public indoctrination centers(public schools)should be concerned about education rather than brainwashing!
"Meet me in Saint Louie, Louie..."
"Burleson High School education officials maintain the Confederate symbol is offensive."
How did the libs ever come to the conclusion that 'offensiveness' is the litmus test for free speech? Needless to say, this is another First Amendment case the ACLU won't be taking on.
I imagine that a certain actor at Ford's Theatre had something to do with that.
The war was not about freeing blacks, was not about slavery at all. It was about Northern envy of the opulence, politeness and charm it saw in such Southern cities as New Orleans, Richmond, Savannah, Charleston and Mobile. It was a war of envy, a war to increase federal power (which had it's roots in Jacksonianism) and a war to protect northern industry at the expense of Southern industy.
States rights to do what? The major states rights issue was the issue of slavery - it wasn't parking tickets.
I imagine you'd be right. I was pretty disappointed a few weeks ago when I read that Lincoln's motives were more political than altruistic. Pity.
Agreed.
was not about slavery at all.
Delusional.
prefer it(except for the theatrics)but actually Jesse would have been a better show on just bikes(his special bike shows were good,I really liked his Mexico run with Kid Rock),instead he got the Monster garage deal...a show I skip past faster than anything. But Jesse's marriage to a porn star turned me off on him forever.
Yeah, I'd say that's about right. That and the Morrill Tariff.
War of Southern Independence BUMP.
Long live the South.
;-)
"Don't tell Abe Foxman, he'll have a heart attack."
good , lets tell him
And no matter how many half-truths, distortions of stats, out of context quotations and moral equivocations it took, he achieved his goal. Coming next, The Real Winston Churchill, a biography by Joseph Goebbels IV.
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