http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/loca...-American-Flag-Shirts-Sent-Home-92945969.html Maybe the idiots who would've started fights with these kids for having the audacity to wear American flag t-shirts in the United States should be the ones getting disciplined?? At least the school district backed the students, so I guess someone out there doesn't have their head up their ass.
Sorry, but this is one of those stories where, if you actually look into the details, everyone looks terrible. Apparently there is some real racial tension at this school. Well, if that's the case, then perhaps the 5th of May should be "normal school day" instead of "Mexican Heritage Day". Seems to me the school should have looked to diffuse all this instead of stoking it all up into a contest of public expression -- because that's exactly what happened here. And, yes, the boys were idiots and they were trying to be "incendiary" (and here I feign shock about how stupid high school boys can be). In the end the school was dead wrong to discipline them in this manner, and the kids were jerks to be such jerks, but to me the real blame has to lay with the school that seems to have fostered an environment in which this sort of thing becomes almost inevitable. Tell you the truth, you know what this story actually is? An argument for very strict dress codes and even school uniforms.
What Cinco de Mayo needs is less flags and more tequila. Well, not at the high school, of course. I mean for the rest of us.
You really should not wear the American Flag ever, it's disrespectful (and against a "Public Law", iirc, though not enforced as it would be against the 1st Amendment, same reason we do not prosecute flag burnings). Sounds like the kids were being dicks, but that cannot possibly be illegal on a high school campus or they'd have to shut them all down
I wore a shirt to high school that said "christianity is stupid. give up." I was asked to change or cover it up. I didn't call the newspaper.
So many angles to this. Concerning the flag wearing students. If all the did was wear the stuff without going out of their way to be dicks, no big deal. If they did go out of their way to dicks, a little worse, but being a jerk is not against the law and nobody has the right not to be offended. Concerning the Hispanic students. From the little I know about this case, none of them voiced any complaints or were offended. So kudos to them for celebrating their culture while respecting the right and culture of the anglo students. Concerning the Administration, there were the biggest dicks in this whole fiasco. First, if I was correct about the hispanic students, the admin created a situation where none existed to begin with and in doing so insinuated that Hispanic students cannot be subjected to an American flag without being horribly offended or resulting to violence. I find the administration's low opinion of Mexican-American students to be horrible insulting.
Besides its use in the title of this thread, where is there any reference to "hate speech?" There is no such reference in the article. The situation at the school is pretty stupid, but there is no need for hyperbole. Leave that to the guys at FOX. They'll blow this out of proportion.
Typical responses from the losers on here. I love how the freedom of speech only really applies to the certain groups. I love the latinas' comment about how the students wearing the the US Flag emblem were disrepecting a Mexican holiday. Its comical since she lives here in the US. Blame the students who wore the flags is tantamount to blaming a female for getting raped because she wore revealing clothes. This message is for Chad: One of these days your going to piss somebody off and you won't be behind a computer.
Posters on here never blow anything out of proportion. This place is such a joke. It is not even funny.
That's pretty much the impression I got. Everyone mentioned in that article -the administration and all the students and all their parents- should be deported to North Korea.
Negativwhat? Never heard of them. Where they popular in the US back in the day? Somehow they never made it to Argentina, or at least not into my social circles.
I'm guessing Cinco de Mayo is as well, since it is celebrated far far more in the US than in Mexico (there its celebration is limited primarily to the state of Puebla) where the real Independence Day is September 16.
Yes, sadly school administrators acting stupidly is not news. Did I catch that right, two of these kids are half Mexican?