re: #843 Graybeard

It that’s not what you meant to say I’m glad to hear it. It’s certainly the message I received.

‘What school principal wouldn’t have done the same thing? Don’t they have a responsibility to maintain order in school? And if so, isn’t it blindingly obvious that they need to take action when students do things that are designed to create conflict and bad feelings?’

I read the post over more than once, to make sure I understood on what evidence this accusation was made. As far as I could tell, the bare fact that the students wore the flag shirts on Cinco de Mayo was the only such evidence.

That the incident took place on Cinco de Mayo was also presented as the key fact that made it a ‘nontroversy’ instead of possibly an outrage.

My answer to the question ‘What school principal wouldn’t have done the same thing?’ is ‘One with common sense.’ Anyone with a glimmer of cultural understanding would have known that making an issue of the flag shirts would inflame matters further.

A good Principal’s loyalty should be to his student’s not to his school or to his school board.

So I fail to see how a principle with common sense could weigh “someone student getting hurt” against “starting political controversy” and decide it was better to allow one of his charges to be harmed on school grounds than to rock the boat.

Besides if someone had actually gotten worse the matters would be inflamed about 1000 times as badly as they are now.