High School Bans American Flags To Be 'Inclusive.' It Didn't Go Over Well.

[rangerrebew]

High School Bans American Flags To Be 'Inclusive.' It Didn't Go Over Well.
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By:
James Barrett
May 19, 2016
 
http://www.dailywire.com/news/5860/high-school-bans-american-flags-it-didnt-go-over-james-barrett

For the sake of "inclusivity" and protecting students from being "offended," a Colorado high school informed students last week that they were forbidden from flying any flags, including the American flag, in the parking lot. The next day, five seniors decided to stage a pro-freedom of speech, pro-America demonstration, proudly flying Old Glory in protest of the new policy. Following mounting public pressure, the school has since walked back its ill-conceived ban.

The flag ban at Fruita Monument High School reportedly came in response to a student who chose to fly a Confederate Flag behind his vehicle, something school officials deemed offensive to other students. The administration's solution: ban all flags. Students who disobeyed faced consequences, including the potential to be barred from walking in the graduation.

"They said we can't fly a Mexican flag, Confederate flag, American flag, any flag at all," said one of the senior protesters. "Whoever has a problem with our county’s flag really shouldn't be here, and really shouldn't say anything about it, because if they don't like our country why are they here?"

"I don't see how you can pull someone's right to walk in graduation because they were being patriotic,” said another student. "My buddy was kicked out for having [a flag] in his truck, and they threatened to expel Colt Chatfield for it, and they told all seniors that they would not walk [in graduation] if we continued to display flags in the school’s parking lot," he explained.

School officials insisted, rather incoherently, that the real issue was not what flag was being flown, but the resources devoted to "policing" them.

"It wasn’t a matter of it being an American flag, or a Rebel flag, or a Confederate flag, it was the fact that administration was spending time in the parking lot policing flags, rather than being in the building focused on helping students focus on learning and graduation, which is why we said no flags in the parking lot," said Principal Todd McClaskey.

Despite the school's initial attempt at defending the ban, they've since relented, allowing students to fly flags so long as they do so "respectfully."

[rangerrebew]

Rush warned this was one of the goals of the lunatic left.  People thought he was crazy.  Well------------

[Quix]

Rush warned this was one of the goals of the lunatic left.  People thought he was crazy.  Well------------

I've been an educator about all my adult life.

However . . . since returning to the USA 10+ years ago after 15 years in SE Asia . . .

it has increasingly appeared to me that

"EDUCATORS" and "education institutions" in this once great land

have become the absolute opposite.

They increasingly parade their practice of dumbing down the kids and turning them into lobotomized utter idiots wailing like 2 year olds over their supposed "entitlements."

What utter looooooooooooonacy.

[Quix]

We need to start a fundraising drive so we can buy liberals each a dictionary of their very own.   

I get your meaning . . . and appreciate the merit in your suggestion.

However, personally . . . I'd let most of them  continue to wander around in their unmitigated idiocy. It makes them easier to shove aside as utterly clueless drones devoid of any right to blather anything in the public square whatsoever.

[geronl]

Banning things is not "inclusive"

[Quix]

You are right, of course, but too rational.  They've controlled the schools and media so long that their lunacy sells fairly well.  Party its because they bully dissent with labels and leftist regulation.  Still, I find it utterly stunning that they find a way to win with corrupt and outright false positions.  Then again, who stands up and fights them?  Too many on the so-called right are nothing more than accommodating fake-righters or gutless unprincipled white flag waiving wonders.  The courts have largely abandoned the original meaning of the Constitution for their own wishful out-of-thin-air meaning.   We need voters to take action...so what do they do?  They give us Trump and Hillary.   Maybe a majority of us are too dumb and/or corrupt to recover the republic.  The evidence is not good.

I think you are more right, correct than I am.

Indeed, the  evidence is not good.

Cheers.