Flag Banned at school...

[OklahomaTuba]

Patriotism = a bad thing, I guess.

I wonder if burning it would still be allowed? Damn Jingoist facists.

(CBS4) WESTMINSTER, Colo. The immigration debate and demonstrations caused a middle school in Adams County to change their dress code.

Students at Shaw Heights Middle School are no longer allowed to wear anything that's patriotic, including camouflage pants, because they have become a political symbol for a version of patriotism.

"It upsets me that we cannot support our troops, the military," said Kirsten Golgart, an eighth grader who was told she'd be suspended if she didn't change her clothes. "We can't support our country. If we're American, I think we should be proud to be an American."

A letter went home to parents last week that explained for student safety, no clothes were allowed with political messages or flags of any sort.

http://cbs4denver.com/topstories/loc...094003340.html

[TUSooner]

We are a nation of wussies. GUTLESS WUSSIES, I tell ya, afraid to annoy anyone who might whine and bitch. It makes me wanna just go out a gratuitously p!ss somebody off.

[Osce0la]

We are a nation of wussies. GUTLESS WUSSIES, I tell ya, afraid to annoy anyone who might whine and bitch. It makes me wanna just go out a gratuitously p!ss somebody off.

I agree 110%...You have GOT to be kidding me. So now we can't even show pride in our own country, within our borders, because it has become offensive to those who shouldn't be here in the first place. If I was at that school I'd organize something where everyone would come to school with a flag draped over their shoulders and signs demanding that we take back OUR country...this is absolutely pathetic.

[NormanPride]

Wow, that's insane. Do you think there's more to the story? Like maybe the "patriots" were being disruptive? I just can't believe this is constitutional...

[StoopTroup]

One word: COLORADO

[yermom]

damn libz

no, really

[mdklatt]

A letter went home to parents last week that explained for student safety, no clothes were allowed with political messages or flags of any sort.

It's not just the US flag.

[yermom]

camouflage pants?

Li'l John is gonna be ****ed

i wonder if this makes it into South Park anytime soon

[NormanPride]

See, after reading the article, it sounds like the "patriots" were causing disorder. I imagine it was on both sides, but the easiest thing to do is implement a temporary dress code. It's a preventative measure, not a symbol of anti-patriotism.

[Vaevictis]

You want something to blame, blame the lawsuit and school-as-daycare culture.

If it's been presented to her as "this could cause fights in our school" and she doesn't take preventative measures, and someone gets hurt in a fight, she loses his job as the school district gets sued for some random kind of negligence.

Poor fscker is in a damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don't situation.

[yermom]

See, after reading the article, it sounds like the "patriots" were causing disorder. I imagine it was on both sides, but the easiest thing to do is implement a temporary dress code. It's a preventative measure, not a symbol of anti-patriotism.

i'll defer to the above "WUSSIES" comment

[NormanPride]

i'll defer to the above "WUSSIES" comment

Which would you have, whining about a dress code or kids in hospitals?

[StoopTroup]

I wonder if it would be ok to come to school in dead buffalo skins?

[mdklatt]

Which would you have, whining about a dress code or kids in hospitals?

And schools aren't exactly a bastion of free speech in the first place.

[yermom]

only the wussy ones would be in hospitals

[NormanPride]

[TUSooner]

It's not just the US flag.

So...... "no speech" = "free speech"?

[TUSooner]

See, after reading the article, it sounds like the "patriots" were causing disorder. I imagine it was on both sides, but the easiest thing to do is implement a temporary dress code. It's a preventative measure, not a symbol of anti-patriotism.

What? You read the article... hmmmmmm. I may consider doing that myself. Later.

[TUSooner]

And schools aren't exactly a bastion of free speech in the first place.

If you try to be too sensible, I may have to read the &@%# article.

[Okla-homey]

If I had a boy in that school I'd put him in a pair of cammys, a USA Olympics t-shirt and send him to school. If they sent him home, I'd send him back. If they suspended him, I'd send him back dressed the same way after the suspension. If they expelled him, I'd sue. You know who I'd get to represent us? The mutherlovin' ACLU.

Zang!

Occasionally, I am reminded of the great Jack Nicholson's "Joker" character in "Batman" part the first; "This town [country] needs an enema!"