Students Kicked Off Campus for Wearing American Flag Tees

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Redux

The courts have ruled that schools can impose dress codes that may limit the students' right of expression to wear whatever the hell they want.

Yes they can, but it has to be uniform, and can't be imposed in the middle of the damn day.

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Yes they can, but it has to be uniform, and can't be imposed in the middle of the damn day.

In regards to a dress code, I was responding to lookout's post about a young lady and her skirt and vagina.

But, the fact is, neither of us know if the policy prohibits wearing bandannas.

Five kids attending Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, Calif., decided to wear patriotic clothing (T-shirts and bandannas with the American flag on them) on Cinco de Mayo. Assistant Principal Miguel Rodriguez told them that the clothing was inappropriate for the holiday and to ditch the bandannas and turn their shirts inside out or go home.

You are making assumptions here.

That the five kids acted out of patriotism, rather than to be provocative. You dont know that.

In fact, we dont anything about these five kids, other then that they acted collectively. Are they model students? Have they had or provoked confrontations with Hispanic students in the past? Are there tensions in the school between Anglo students and Hispanic students? We dont know any of the answers. Presumably, the Asst. Principal does.

And, with the bolding, it appears that you are assuming or inferring that the Asst Principal acted based on his own ethnicity rather than out of concern for safety.

The Asst. Principal made a judgment call....perhaps, bad judgment...but none of us know all the facts.

One fact we do know, the school had a recent history of problems with intolerance and attacks (physical and verbal) against minorities...at the time, it was against gays/lesbian students.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Assistant Principal Miguel Rodriguez, would be a pretty good reason why he thought it was a holiday.

Their reasons for wearing those clothes doesn't matter, they were within their rights to do so.