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The american left strikes again!!! So is the school going to put a student in ISS for wearing red white or blue? Come on! Are they not going to say the pledge in the mornings when class starts?
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/8439483/detail.html
Schools Ban Patriotic Clothes, Flags
School Officials Say Move Is Temporary
POSTED: 10:24 am PDT April 3, 2006
UPDATED: 10:05 am PDT April 5, 2006
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SAN DIEGO -- In the wake of last week's immigration-reform protests, one school district is taking drastic measures, banning all symbols of patriotism, both U.S. and Mexican.
Beginning Monday, the Oceanside Unified School District is banning all flags and patriotic clothing. According to school officials, some students are using the garments and flags to taunt classmates.
Some critics of the move are calling it a violation of free speech protections guaranteed by the Cons ution.
The American Civil Liberties Union points to the landmark Supreme Court case Tinker v. Des Moines. In that case, school officials attempted to stop students who were protesting the Viet Nam War from wearing black armbands.
"The school has to be able to show a strong likelihood that there is going to material and substantial disruption of school, and if they don’t meet that standard, then they can't censor student speech," said Kevin Neenan of the ACLU.
School officials in Oceanside now say that flags -- whether they are U.S. or Mexican or any other country's -- have now become a divider on campuses, saying that some students are using them to taunt other students
Keith Brentlinger displays the U.S. flag outside Hatter, Williams and Purdy, his Oceanside business.
"To me, it's everything," said Brentlinger "I mean, like I said -- we truly live in the greatest country in the world."
Brentlinger said he was shocked on Tuesday when marching immigration-reform protesters tore down the flag outside his business.
"Some of them just grabbed the flag, and pulled it off its aluminum pole, and it got ripped," said Brentlinger.
Brentlinger told NBC 7/39 that he put up a new flag the next day.
"Some protesters drove up in their car and snagged the flag from our building and took off," said Brentlinger. "I was extremely, extremely upset. I mean, it was just ... insulting is the word."
School officials are saying that the ban is just temporary and that they were just trying to prevent violence. They would not say how long the ban would be in effect.
You all see this yet.
The american left strikes again!!! So is the school going to put a student in ISS for wearing red white or blue? Come on! Are they not going to say the pledge in the mornings when class starts?
And yet you notice which part of this is outrageous to Rightwingers...In the wake of last week's immigration-reform protests, one school district is taking drastic measures, banning all symbols of patriotism, both U.S. and Mexican.
Does the banning of Mexican symbols offend you as well? Or just the 'Merican ones?
If some white kid gets suspended, I bet Hannity interviews him.
Hannity interviewed a girl because of this.
Nice to know that you contribute to his payola by listening.....sucker.
I gotta know what the bad guys are doing.
WHatever floats your boat.
School uniforms.
The fact that George Carlin critiziced school uniforms in one of his bits, leads me to believe it's a good thing.
Only gang colors allowed. Or you can show colors of your heritage. And
you can say "The Pledge" so long as you leave "God" out. Don't want to
offend anyone during Muslim studies.
them. You cant ban American patriotism in ing AMERICA!
Or can you? Piss on these terds...
they ban in australia, u cant have a flag, any countrys or kind of flag includin pirates flag mounted on a poll in ur front yard or backyard.
ing liberals at it again... we need to trade one liberal to mexico for one mexican... until we get rid of all of them
Just so we're straight here.
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