I’m with you...this “policy” is almost surely off-the-cuff BS, conjured up by a deer-in-the-headlights principal who hadn’t expected his authority to be questioned by parents or media.
Speaking of media...is there NO journalist around any more who knows how to ask a follow-up question? Whether it’s about ISIS, Fast & Furious, Benghazi or a high school principal, it’s all the same—unless the “reporter” wants to promote his own, personal agenda, the most glaringly obvious followup questions never even occur to them.
I’m assuming, though, at least one of the parents or students has enough brains to go directly to the district superintendent and ask where this policy appears, when it was enacted, whether it’s ever been enforced before, by whom, and for what reason.
The lying principal’s “tell” comes in his statement that he’ll be meeting with the student council to discuss a policy revision. Yeah, this principal has the authority to change or ignore DISTRICT POLICY—which is what he claimed he was simply following—on his own? Right. Good luck with that.
What you have said there is so true across the board. Journalism is dead. The real thing just does not exist anymore.
"The students were not punished."
Well, aside from it being mighty white of him to SAY that, it isn't true.
He took their flags away FGS.
I'd sure like to know HOW this went down. Did this jackass make an announcement, THEN confiscated the flags?
Or was he waiting breathlessly as the students drove into the parking lot, taking them away on the spot?