Teens in US T-Shirts Sent Home on Cinco de Mayo
At least that’s what happened Wednesday to five sophomore boys at Live Oak High School in Santa Clara, Calif. School administrators deemed their conspicuous American flag apparel “incendiary” and likely to provoke fights on a day when many other students were permitted to don the red, white and green designs of the Mexican flag in celebration of that country’s heritage.
“They said if we tried to go back to class with our shirts not taken off, they said it was defiance and we would get suspended,” NBC Bay Area quoted Dominic Maciel, one of the students sent home.
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WHAT THE FUCK. Nevermind the fact that this is a blatant violation of these children’s rights to freedom of speech, nevermind that these children often wore patriotic apparel on other days, but why in gods name would it be offensive to wear patriotic clothing in a school in AMERICA?!!
It is incredulous and retarded that the school would have the nerve to believe that it is inappropriate for students to take pride in their country, ON ANY DAY.
Just because it is Cinco De Mayo means I cannot celebrate my country too? That’s incendiary? We’ve gotten to the point that we’ve coddled our children and society so much that we can no longer even be patriotic? That’s un-fucking-believable and you have got to be shitting me.
