BOO! School says students can't display American flag!

RedGlitter · Post by **RedGlitter** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 11:58 pm

I think there's something seriously wrong with this picture.

School says students can't display American flag

Students at Hobbton High School in Newton Grove, N.C., aren't allowed to wear clothing that features the American flag. WECT-TV says the ban was imposed last year after two students, each wearing the flag of a different country, got into a fight. School officials responded by banning T-shirts and other garments that display such national symbols.

The prohibition is making news today because a student wanted to show the stars and stripes on the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

"Today she wanted to wear her shirt, and I had to tell her no. She didn't like it at all because I knew it would get her in trouble. Of all days, 9/11, she could not wear her American flag shirt," Gayle Langston tells WECT-TV.

WNCN-TV says school officials wouldn't comment on the controversial rule, other than to say that they didn't want to be put in the position of choosing one flag over another. (This photo shows that the American flag is still flying outside the school.)

Conservative bloggers seized the story as what they see as yet another example of political correctness gone awry.

"Like sheeple [sic], we allow public educators to impart their gutless moral equivalence to the next generation. The cancer of political correctness metastasizes," Michelle Malkin writes in a blog posting that says the flag is being treated like gang colors.

Brian at Liberty Pundit says there's a simple response to last year's fight: American flag, ok. Any other flag, no. But no, that’s too simple. In today’s liberal education system, God forbid someone show the flag, because it might offend a tree-hugging, soil-munching hippie who hates this country and everything it stands for, an illegal immigrant who thinks this country is Mexico II, or some exchange student from a country where they hate our guts.

Kyle at Comments From Left Field adopts a different position, and takes on the conservative commentators in the process: If only you had bothered to serve in the military and performed in a Colors ceremony, or at least had the wherewithall [sic] to learn about Flag Etiquette before speaking, you might be patriotic enough to know that NO SCHOOL should be allowing its students to wear clothing depicting the American Flag.

What do you think?

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 3:43 am

NO SCHOOL should be allowing its students to wear clothing depicting the American Flag.

Flags are to be flown on flag poles, not wrapped around bodies as a fashion statement , it is the ultimate disrespect to form any flag into clothing and then sit on it.

PC is allowing this to happen, not the banning of flags worn as clothing.

RedGlitter · Post by **RedGlitter** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 7:22 am

Bruv;693904 wrote: Flags are to be flown on flag poles, not wrapped around bodies as a fashion statement , it is the ultimate disrespect to form any flag into clothing and then sit on it.

PC is allowing this to happen, not the banning of flags worn as clothing.

I can't say I agree there, Bruv. First thing I thought of in reading your reply was how I feel when I pass someone with a US flag across the back of their jacket. Disrespect is the last thing I'd think of.

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YZGI · Post by **YZGI** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 7:54 am

RedGlitter;693946 wrote: I can't say I agree there, Bruv. First thing I thought of in reading your reply was how I feel when I pass someone with a US flag across the back of their jacket. Disrespect is the last thing I'd think of.
I agree, as long as it is displayed respectively (and I have seen it without respect) I see no problem having it on clothing. It is no different than the military having a patch of the flag on their shoulder.

Sheryl · Post by **Sheryl** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 9:22 am

I'm agreeing with Red and YZGI! As long as the flag is done respectfully, I see no reason why it shouldn't be worn.

valerie · Post by **valerie** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 11:56 am

I think it is more of a patriotic statement than a fashion statement!

More importantly, I think what that flag stands for is our FREEDOM...

up to and including freedom to wear a depiction of it on clothing!!

:yh_flag:yh_flag

RedGlitter · Post by **RedGlitter** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 12:13 pm

In thinking about it more, I think it's plain crazy that in the Land of the Free we can't be free enough to wear the symbol of what we stand for. I think that school set a dangerous and wrongful precedent for those kids.

minks · Post by **minks** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 2:06 pm

I say wear your flag proudly.

rkdian · Post by **rkdian** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 2:39 pm

As the mother of one of the Marines who has been called into action to defend our freedom, I double dog dare someone to tell me that I can't display the flag that he is fighting for anywhere I damn well please!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Of course, it is a given that I would never do so without the utmost respect for the same reason. This school really needs to re-evaluate their reason for the ban. Just seeing the flag on someone's shirt is not enough to cause the fight. Someone was running their mouth. Disrespect for another's rights was probably the actual cause of the conflict. Many schools have gone to uniforms to avoid just this kind of altercation. Many sight gang insignia as the culprit, but they have removed any rights that the children and their parents had in showing loyalty to anything, even their school.

Patsy Warnick · Post by **Patsy Warnick** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 3:07 pm

I'm curious, does this school say the" Pledge of Allegiance" every morning?

Patsy