Appeals Court sides with school in telling CA students to remove clothing bearing images of the US Flag (San Francisco: 2014, house)

[18Montclair]

This is ridiculous and I find myself extremely irritated by this decision.

Furthermore, the bigger question is: How the HELL did we get to a place of so much divisiveness that even the mere image of the US Flag could actually cause 'legitimate concerns of violence' at any event held in the United States? Much less a (freaking) high school.

Furthermore, Cinco de Mayo isn't really even celebrated in Mexico. It's primarily an American celebration of Mexican culture and what not(WHICH IS GREAT), but why would the image of the US flag on someone else's clothing be treated the same way as gang colors?

What should have been a teaching moment on the part of the school, or at least an opportunity to build bridges of understanding, instead has become another wall that separates us all into little groups that apparently aren't supposed to ever come together.

San Francisco Bay-area high school officials did not violate the civil rights of five students by demanding they remove T-shirts bearing images of the U.S. flag at an event celebrating the Mexican holiday of Cinco de Mayo, a federal appeals court ruled on Thursday.

A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said school officials acted out of legitimate concerns of violence when they sent a handful of students home for refusing to change their American flag-embellished apparel...

U.S. appeals court sides with California school in T-shirt dispute | Reuters

[aslowdodge]

I'm with you on this one. But don't even get me started

[bigdumbgod]

Let natural consequences prevail on this one. Those guys knew they were instigating.

[Bulldogdad]

Elections have consequences.

Keep electing people who put these types of judges in place and this is what you get.

A liberal gangsters paradise.

[NickB1967]

This dates back to 2010, sadly. And what is even sadder is how the divisive "multicultural" Commiecrat poisoning has reached down from "higher" academia down to the K-12 schools.

In The Land Of Fruits And Nuts: Students Kicked Off Campus for Wearing American Flag Tees

[TVC15]

Pretty crazy IMO but hey welcome to CA where you loose many inherent rights as a US citizen the minute you move here.

[shooting4life]

Still waiting for Obama to take down the US flag from the White House on May 5th, because otherwise he would be race baiting.

Just apply the logic of this ruling to a rape victim and revealing clothing.

[lrmsd]

They need to get the flag to be considered 'religious attire' somehow...And then it will be protected. LOL.
Though, those kids obviously were being antagonistic....So I think that needs to be considered relative to this particular story, but not the topic in general which is a valid point of discussion for sure these days....

[Social Democrat]

I agree with you on this. I question the wisdom of the school for having such an event in the first place.
Do they provide the same level of cultural appreciation for all racial/ethnic groups? That's the sad rub when doing something like this; someone is bound to be offended, so unless such days are planned for all racial/ethnic groups, it may be better to just not have them at all.

[Fontucky]

The only Mexicans who would be offended by the American flag would be the Mecha/Aztlan loonies, and offending them should be the goal of every American citizen.