Students sent home for wearing American flags

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

If not formal uniform, I would expect that there are dress codes.

Of course there are dress codes in the schools. But I don't see how any student in Germany would be sent home for wearing a t-shirt with a German flag on it. Much less if other students were present and allowed to stay wearing shirts with Turkish flags

Edited May 6, 2010 by Mr. Big Dog

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Of course there are dress codes in the schools. But I don't see how any student in Germany would be sent home for wearing a t-shirt with a German flag on it.

We like to do things upside down in America. When new immigrants enter at JFK, the sign should read Welcome to Bizarro World.

[IR5FORMUMSIE 850]

*sniff* *sniff* Thank you, this is so patriotic it makes me want to stand up and salute the flag. Another part of me is already standing at attention. :devil: God Bless America! :thumbs:

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

We like to do things upside down in America. When new immigrants enter at JFK, the sign should read Welcome to Bizarro World.

You ain't kidding.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

*sniff* *sniff* Thank you, this is so patriotic it makes me want to stand up and salute the flag. Another part of me is already standing at attention. :devil: God Bless America! :thumbs:

Amen, brother.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Of course there are dress codes in the schools. But I don't see how any student in Germany would be sent home for wearing a t-shirt with a German flag on it. Much less if other students were present and allowed to stay wearing shirts with Turkish flags

I guess it depends on whether or not there is any tension between ethnic groups in Germany and whether the wearing of those clothes is likely to trigger some sort of incident.

[IR5FORMUMSIE 850]

We like to do things upside down in America. When new immigrants enter at JFK, the sign should read Welcome to Bizarro World.

No, that would be at Newark. :bonk:

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

I guess it depends on whether or not there is any tension between ethnic groups in Germany and whether the wearing of those clothes is likely to trigger some sort of incident.

I'm sorry but when the display of the nation's flag in this nation's schools is considered "potentially offensive" then something has gone terribly wrong. And the solution most certainly cannot be to disallow the display our flag but tolerate the display of the flag of a neighboring country. That's fcuked up on so many levels.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

I'm sorry but when the display of the nation's flag in this nation's schools is considered "potentially offensive" then something has gone terribly wrong. And the solution most certainly cannot be to disallow the display our flag but tolerate the display of the flag of a neighboring country. That's fcuked up on so many levels.

If there is a real potential for violence within that school over students wearing competing nationalist imagery, then clearly the school needs to implement appropriate rules to remove the possibility of that situation arising again in the future.

My belief is that students in high schools shouldn't be allowed to create this kind of situation, and the idea of a First Amendment lawsuit taking place as a result is insane. What a silly waste of everyone's time!

[Kiv 32]

Cinco De Mayo is supposedly Mexican Independence Day.

Nope, it is not. Independence day is September 16.

[Heracles 417]

So once again we will inevitably have to ban everything so the few are not offended. This is exactly the problem I have with people entering another nation and not caring less to integrate. Furthermore, expecting the country to change to suit their needs.

Edited May 6, 2010 by Booyah!

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

If there is a real potential for violence within that school over students wearing competing nationalist imagery, then clearly the school needs to implement appropriate rules to remove the possibility of that situation arising again in the future.

That's not the point. What I find inexcusable is to send kids wearing shirts with our nation's flag home while tolerating kids wearing flags of a neighboring country. There's no justification for that. Nor is there any justification for the display of our flag on our soil to raise any potential for violence. If there are indeed kids in our schools that are offended by our nation's flag, then perhaps they ought to go to schools on different soils where our flag isn't displayed.

Wanna see a Mexican flag in school? Try a school in Mexico.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

So once again we will inevitably have to ban everything so the few are not offended. This is exactly the problem I have with people entering another nation and not caring less to integrate. Furthermore, expecting the country to change to suit their needs.

Not the country, only the school.

Either there is a problem that needs to be addressed there or there isn't.

There isn't much more to it than that.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

If there are indeed kids in our schools that are offended by our nation's flag, then perhaps they ought to go to schools on different soils where our flag isn't displayed.

agreed

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Not the country, only the school.

Today it's just that one school. Tomorrow it's all the schools. That's just bull. Again, if the American flag offends you, don't be in America. If you prefer the Mexican flag, go to Mexico.