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Originally Posted by toranokaze
First:
Library of Congress (U.S.A.) Declaration Retrieved February 6, 2009.
Secondly :
~schools dress code
So if the school can though the students were acting as a gang the school was well with in its right to make them change their shirts.
Furthermore, intent is very important to the American Justice system legally known as Mens Rea, and to incite imminent lawless action is the a satute for curbing free speech in greater world (Brandenburg v. Ohio, 395 U.S. 444
(1969)).
But this is a school.
I remember high school; you were guilty till proven innocent, speech and expression where curb, you had no expected right to privacy .
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The school administrator didn't think the kids wearing flags were a gang. He thought there were kids who would be 'offended' by was reason to ask them to take it off saying it was 'their' holiday. Just by saying some kids are offended and its their holiday, he is creating division himself. Anyone should be able to wear anything they want within school dress codes.
If wearing a flag is ok any other day then it should be ok on that day as well. I mean we are trying to teach cultural tolerance but .....
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