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Five Morgan Hill students sent home for wearing American flag T-shirts
Gilroy Dispatch ^ | 5/5/10 | Lindsay Bryant

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.


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To: Ballygrl

Me, too.


41 posted on 05/05/2010 5:56:42 PM PDT by MamaB (If you see someone without a smile, give them yours.)
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To: truthbetold11

No, it’s not a made-up holiday. It’s a legitimate holiday IN MEXICO, but NOT HERE.


42 posted on 05/05/2010 5:57:29 PM PDT by Jedidah (Character, courage, common sense are more important than issues.)
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To: Notwithstanding

Precisely. Except that none of them have any business wearing clothing to make a political statement at all.

They need to have their heads in their books, politics aside except in government class.

Just put them in cheap uniforms.


43 posted on 05/05/2010 6:00:14 PM PDT by Jedidah (Character, courage, common sense are more important than issues.)
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To: meyer
Incendiary, my butt!! What's incendiary is celebrating Cinco de Mayo in a public school in the United States.

Exactly!

44 posted on 05/05/2010 6:01:31 PM PDT by Misterioso (If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.-Ayn Rand)
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To: Ballygrl

Assistant Principal Miguel Rodriguez needs to have his Commie Loving A$$ sued off for failing to understand the First Amendment, and depriving young men their rights! IMHO I hope they sue for maximum allowable, both criminally and civilly.


45 posted on 05/05/2010 6:01:43 PM PDT by J Edgar
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To: Ballygrl

Maybe for that day the school could forgo accepting America tax payer money as well. Maybe just seek funds from Mexico or something.


46 posted on 05/05/2010 6:02:34 PM PDT by freemike (John Adams-Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker)
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To: Ballygrl

Bookmark


47 posted on 05/05/2010 6:03:19 PM PDT by dragnet2
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Great idea! I’m in.


48 posted on 05/05/2010 6:03:36 PM PDT by andrew2527
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To: ASOC

Morgan Hill? South of Frisco on 101, near Gilroy?


49 posted on 05/05/2010 6:03:54 PM PDT by cpa4you (CPA4YOU)
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To: Jedidah

From Wikipedia:

“While Cinco de Mayo sees limited significance and celebration nationwide in Mexico, the date is observed nationwide in the United States and other locations around the world as a celebration of Mexican heritage and pride.”


50 posted on 05/05/2010 6:05:34 PM PDT by Misterioso (If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.-Ayn Rand)
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To: Ballygrl
If someone were to beat this asshat vice principals ass to a bloody pulp I would laugh my ass off.

This garbage has gone on long enough, and these morons just can't understand that they will be the cause of the violence that will eventually come to our country due to their asinine appeasement.

51 posted on 05/05/2010 6:06:36 PM PDT by Pox
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To: Ballygrl

Gee this all seems somehow familiar.

It is offensive/incendiary to wear an American flag/It is offensive/incendiary to wear a Confederate flag. Robert E Lee is a racist/George Washington is a racist, The South is full of rednecks and bigots/American is full of racist and bigots.

Anybody that thinks that the same playbook is not at work here better take another look. The destruction of white Western history is in their sites. The Marxist intend to destroy all vestiges of white Western history and culture along with our nation. It will NEVER stop unless we make it stop.


52 posted on 05/05/2010 6:07:35 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: funfan

Thank you

I have heard of it, just lost the state.

Old fart disease I guess.


53 posted on 05/05/2010 6:08:53 PM PDT by ASOC (I am available for spill response work, all I ask is $800/day plus expenses.....)
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To: truthbetold11

Yep, it was made up so more beer could be sold!


54 posted on 05/05/2010 6:10:00 PM PDT by getarope (One Big Ass Mistake, America!)
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To: ASOC

Is that a Texas town on the border of Mexico?

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Naw, this is California...

This is Texas...Watch towards the end of this video....

La Raza Members Attack Texan Town Hall Attendees.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6heXIdSpDdE


55 posted on 05/05/2010 6:10:25 PM PDT by dragnet2
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To: Jedidah

And they need to celebrate it in Mexico, not here.


56 posted on 05/05/2010 6:10:29 PM PDT by achilles2000 (Shouting "fire" in a burning building is doing everyone a favor...whether they like it or not)
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To: Ballygrl

Last I knew, regardless of what national holiday it is it is ALWAYS still o.k. to be patriotic.


57 posted on 05/05/2010 6:11:37 PM PDT by annelizly
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To: truthbetold11

a made up holiday seriously!!!!!!!!!!!!

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It is an authentic and sincere holiday - for Mexicans in Mexico.

It is a celebration of a military action agaist the French in Mexico.

Absolutely NOTHING to do with the US.


58 posted on 05/05/2010 6:12:45 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (Is it sedition to defy usurpation?)
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To: Ballygrl

My email to Senor Rodriquez;

I hope you took the American flag down from the pole in front of the school. You wouldn’t want to risk antagonizing any coyotes or drug dealers driving past the school. They might be offended and open fire on the school ... oh no. That’s what’s happening everyday in Mexico, not here.


59 posted on 05/05/2010 6:13:14 PM PDT by deener
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To: ASOC

As others have advised, it’s in Kaleefornia. It’s off of highway 101 a few miles north of the garlic capital of the world, Gilroy, and about 30 to 45 miles south of San Jose.


60 posted on 05/05/2010 6:14:50 PM PDT by Enterprise (Dan Rather said Obama is so incompetent he couldn't sell watermelons.)
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