re: #115 Charles

As far as I know, students’ rights to freedom of expression are already limited in a school situation. Dress codes are perfectly legal, for example. And the officials made it very clear to these kids that they were free to wear these clothes any other day. I’m just not seeing a freedom of expression issue.

If this situation had resulted in a fight, and injured kids, the school administrators would have been on the hook for not acting to stop it when they saw it coming. They acted, and it was the responsible thing to do.

Pretty soon we’ll have a whole list of days that we can’t wear the American Flag:

January 9th Panama Martyrs day
January 10th United Nations day
January 27th Holocaust Memorial day
February 14th Chinese New Year
March 17th St. Patrick’s Day (better not wear Orange to school!!!)
March 25th National Day of Celebration of Greek & American Democracy…guess the flag shirts are ‘ok’
April 6th Tartan Day
April 8th Buddha Day
May 5th Cinco de Mayo (the current //Non-troversy)
May 14th The Stars and Stripes Forever day..guess the boys were a little early is all
May 17th (3rd Monday in Canada) Victoria Day
May 18th Shavout
May 30th (Traditional) Memorial Day

Need I go on?

It’s disrespectful that the American Flag would be censored…period.

Charles, you are way off base on this one. What the kids intent was is irrelevant…