re: #615 reine.de.tout

I have to wonder what the administration would have done if the kids wearing the US flag shirts had complained that they were offended by the celebration of a Mexican Heritage Day? Would the kids of Mexican heritage have been sent home? Or would the complainers have been sent home? Why is it a complaint one way results in kids being sent home, but a complaint the other way could have resulted in the SAME kids being sent home?

I don’t care whose flag anybody wears on their clothes, or who celebrates what. It does bother me that certain rights (to wear what they want to school, since there’s no indication anybody violated the school’s dress policy) are so sacred one way, but not the other.

In defense of the administration (and I don’t really want to defend them), they may have been concerned with heading off a fight, rather than who had a right to do what.