Posted on 05/05/2010 5:32:54 PM PDT by Ballygrl
Five Morgan Hill students sent home for wearing American flag T-shirts
2:11 PM By Lindsay Bryant
Five male students were asked to leave Live Oak High School this morning because they were wearing American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo. Officials at the school could not be reached for comment, but one student said administrators called the T-shirts "incendiary."
"They said we were starting a fight, we were fuel to the fire," said Matt Dariano, a sophomore.
The five teens were sitting at a table outside during their brunch break around 10:10 a.m. when Assistant Principal Miguel Rodriguez asked two boys to take off their American flag bandannas that they were wearing on their heads. In the same conversation, student Dominic Maciel said, Rodriguez told the group to "walk with him to the office."
Dariano called his mother Diana, who spread the word to the other parents and all arrived soon after to have a conference with Rodriguez and Principal Nick Boden.
Maciel said they were told they must turn their T-shirts inside-out or be sent home. Maciel said they were told it wouldn't be considered a suspension but Rodriguez did not want any fights to break out among Mexican students and the group showing their American pride.
The boys said they thought turning the American flag inside-out was disrespectful, so all went home.
Dariano said Rodriguez indicated to him that while other students were wearing American flags, the group of five was "the easiest target to cause trouble."
"We were not going to start a fight. We wanted to show our pride," Dariano said. "In light of all of this, there are people with painted flags in red, green and white and yet the boys can't wear the American flag," Diana said.
Not easy to get through.... will keep trying though...
Another good question and I compared the two holidays to my son. I see it as lots of people are only looking for a reason to get drunk.
B/S screw them this is America and I myself came to this country and they have every right to fly the flag or wear red white and blue
this crap has to stop
I am so pissed off with the media, they have covered for their messiah and this kind of stuff for years now and I am so pissed off having to tell people what is gong on and for them to say”really I haven’t heard about this are you sure it wasn’t on the news”
AARRGGHHHH
When I was growing up in Michigan, I read enough to know that St. Patrick was a Catholic saint. I was just enough of a smart-a$$ that, on St. Patrick’s Day, I always wore an orange shirt. I never was beaten up or threatened by a roving pack of Irish Catholics.
Obviously his loyalty to Mexico is stronger than any loyalty he has to the United States of America.
time for thousands and thousands of Americans and those who came here legally to make a stand outside that school and demand this teacher to go
The Swiss Guard are badasses. Take them and give the points.
he wouldn’t ban the Mexican flag he even brought in Mexican dancers at lunch time
Nutmeg,
When I zoom in on that sign,,, it looks kinda strange. Has anyone proven it isn’t Photoshopped? Cuz it kinda looks that way to me. I don’t know if this works on pcs, but on a mac, hold down the control button, and zoom in with your scroll wheel. It just looks like there are artifacts that shouldn’t be in a photo.
That's pretty close to the truth. Well, I don't know about the Corona part, but I do know that it is only celebrated in a very small area of Mexico. Has to do with the defeat of the French in one battle of the Franco-Mexican War ("The French Intervention").
Methinks I see some future FReepers in that photo. This gives me hope for their generation.
I admit I don't know for sure... I agree we must prove that sign is the real deal before it goes "viral"...
Can we confirm that this photo is for real?
Yup! :o)
FU, Asst. Principal Miguel Rodriguez! My country, my flag. At least those young men love America and are here LEGALLY, which is more than I can say for the majority of those Mexicans ‘celebrating’ cinco de mayo in the US today.
Blatant discrimination masquerading as political correctness makes me furious!
Great solution: All the boys get American Flag tattoos on the back of their right hands.
Anyone Mexican who gives a kid wearing an American flag in America a hard time OR starts a fight with a kid wearing an American flag in America does not belong in this country.
This is another reason we don’t want a bunch of illegals. They do not respect this country and what we stand for.
Would an American kid going to school in Mexico cause a Mexican school to send home Mexicans wearing Mexican flags? Hell no! Nor should they send him home.
FR is indeed Rush’s show prep!!!
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Yep, and he’s got plenty of company.
Outrageous, only in Obama’s America....
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