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Students sent home for American Flag Tee shirts

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Revmitchell

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California Middle School Student Chastised for Drawing American Flag;

California Middle School Student Chastised for Drawing American Flag; Student Who Drew a Picture of Obama Praised!


Just last week, five students were sent home from a school in California for wearing American flag tee shirts on Cinco de Mayo, which was deemed as ‘offensive’. Now, another fight over the American flag is in progress this time in a middle school art class in California’s Santa Rita School District. (h/t JWF


As reported by Fox News Radio Reporter Todd Starnes, Tracy Hathaway, of Salinas, CA, stated her 13-year-old daughter was ordered to stop drawing the American flag and start another project at Gavilan View Middle School.

“She had drawn the flag and was sketching the letters, ‘God bless America,’ when the teacher confronted her,” Hathaway told FOX. “She said, ‘You can’t draw that – that’s offensive.”

Perhaps more startling is another student, in the same art class as the student who drew the American flag, made a picture of President Obama and was praised by the same teacher who scolded the other child for drawing the flag.

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Roger Ebert recently made the following comment on Twitter referring to the five kids tossed out of school for wearing American flag T-shirts of May 5:

"Kids who wear American Flag T-shirts on 5 May should have to share a lunchroom table with those who wear a hammer and sickle on 4 July."
 
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lori4dogs said:
Roger Ebert recently made the following comment on Twitter referring to the five kids tossed out of school for wearing American flag T-shirts of May 5:

"Kids who wear American Flag T-shirts on 5 May should have to share a lunchroom table with those who wear a hammer and sickle on 4 July."
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This is America not Russia and not Mexico
 
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lori4dogs said:
Roger Ebert recently made the following comment on Twitter referring to the five kids tossed out of school for wearing American flag T-shirts of May 5:

"Kids who wear American Flag T-shirts on 5 May should have to share a lunchroom table with those who wear a hammer and sickle on 4 July."
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What would be the big deal? It's called freedom.
 
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What is this country coming to when our flag is considered offensive, or was it the words "In God we trust" that was offensive? Still, the American flag T shirts were apparently offensive. So it must be the flag that is offensive--not to me it isn't! I have at least one T shirt that came with an American flag on it. If anyone is offended at that, that's their problem. A lot of American people died for what that flag stands for--FREEDOM! Anyone who is offended by the American Flag should move to a country where they won't have to see it. They should do the same thing if they have a problem with the words, "In God we trust." I know this isn't a perfect or a Christian nation, but it's the best one anyone has come up with so far.
 
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Revmitchell said:
last week, five students were sent home from a school in California for wearing American flag tee shirts on Cinco de Mayo, which was deemed as ‘offensive’. Now, another fight over the American flag is in progress this time in a middle school art class in California’s Santa Rita School District.
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==I think these people have lost their collective minds. What kind of goober thinks the American flag is offensive? If they find the American flag so offensive maybe they would be happier in a different country.
 
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What many here do not realize is the real reason for celebrating the 5th of May. The Fifth is not Mexico's independence day; that's the 16th of September.
The Cinco de Mayo commemorates the victory of the Nationalistas over French and Imperialistas (who supported the Austrian Archduke Maximilian) at the Battle of Puebla. The Battle was more like our Battle of Saratoga. It wasn't the last one. But, it did puncture the French and Imperialista's sense of invincibility.
All the above happened during the ACW. The French (ruled by Napoleon II) lead the European powers in an invasion of Mexico to settle Mexico's foreign debt. They viewed Mexico as a failed state an attempted to place Archduke Maximilian of Austria on the Mexican throne.
From an American viewpoint, I have no problems remembering the Cinco de Mayo, better Mexican blood than American was spilled in battling the French. Because, if Maximilian's forces had won their war, soon after Appomattox American troops would once again be marching south of the Rio Bravo.
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This is America not Russia and not Mexico
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Squire Robertsson said:
What many here do not realize is the real reason for celebrating the 5th of May. The Fifth is not Mexico's independence day; that's the 16th of September.
The Cinco de Mayo commemorates the victory of the Nationalistas over French and Imperialistas (who supported the Austrian Archduke Maximilian) at the Battle of Puebla. The Battle was more like our Battle of Saratoga. It wasn't the last one. But, it did puncture the French and Imperialista's sense of invincibility.
All the above happened during the ACW. The French (ruled by Napoleon II) lead the European powers in an invasion of Mexico to settle Mexico's foreign debt. They viewed Mexico as a failed state an attempted to place Archduke Maximilian of Austria on the Mexican throne.
From an American viewpoint, I have no problems remembering the Cinco de Mayo, better Mexican blood than American was spilled in battling the French. Because, if Maximilian's forces had won their war, soon after Appomattox American troops would once again be marching south of the Rio Bravo.
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I don't care if it is paint yellow birds red day. If Americans want to wear a shirt with an American Flag in our own country, regardless of what day it is somewhere else, then tough for anyone who does not like it.
 
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rbell didn't read the story cited in the IP?

“She had drawn the flag and was sketching the letters, ‘God bless America,’ when the teacher confronted her,” Hathaway told FOX. “She said, ‘You can’t draw that – that’s offensive.”
 
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Squire Robertsson said:
What many here do not realize is the real reason for celebrating the 5th of May.... The Cinco de Mayo commemorates the victory of the Nationalistas over French and Imperialistas....
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What does your little history lesson have to do with the rights of students to wear the American flag in an American school?
 
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You know what I don't get? These people who are so upset about the kids wearing the American flags are Mexican-Americans. Mexican-AMERICANS. The American flag belongs to them too, and is a symbol of their right to, among many other things, celebrate a Mexican holiday in America if that's what they want to do. Some students wearing an American flag on that day did not in any way disrupt the celebration/commemoration of Cinco de Mayo by other students. In fact, America had absolutely nothing to do with the events that the holiday acknowledges. Even taking the American citizenship of these people out of it for the sake of argument, the wearing of the American flag is at worst a neutral act in regards to Cinco de Mayo. So what in the world is the problem??

Now, if these students had actually been trying to make a negative statement, they would have worn FRENCH flags on that day. And in that case, the argument that they were trying to be offensive to the Mexican-American students would certainly have had merit. Making that argument with regards to the AMERICAN flag, however, makes no sense at all, and merely exposes a complete lack of rational thought (to put it as kindly as possible) on the part of the accusers.
 
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Jon-Marc said:
What is this country coming to when our flag is considered offensive, or was it the words "In God we trust" that was offensive? Still, the American flag T shirts were apparently offensive.
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I find that several foreigners I have spoken with to find it offensive that Americans do not support what America stands for when they come to America to study and live.
 
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I find that several foreigners I have spoken with to find it offensive that Americans do not support what America stands for when they come to America to study and live.
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Good grief! Everyone wants to be offended. Everyone needs to get over themselves.
 
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gb93433 said:
Perhaps you missed my point. The foreginers are glad to be in America and they find it strange that Americans are complaining about America.
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With God being removed from anything public so as not to offend non-Christians, with the name of God and Jesus Christ being used as profanity, with pastors being told they can't preach against homosexuality, with homosexuals being ordained to preach without having to give up their wicked lifestyle, with the children being taught that homosexuality is just an alternate lifestyle and acceptable, with all manner of wickedness being accepted as good while doing right is criticized, there is good reason to criticize an ungodly government that is behind all that.

Yes, this is still the best country in the world (although I've had no experience with any other country other than England), but God, Christians and Christianity are being pushed aside and criticized as wickedness is being praised and accepted.
 
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