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Originally Posted by MMM
When school officials ask students to do something and punish them when they don't follow that, it's a rule.
Believe what you want. So now the school officials are liars? What basis do you have to make judgements like that?
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"Asking" and making rules on the books are different.
What basis do I have? A principal that goes behind the district's back and tells all students that they can't wear American colors or flags in an American school
because it somehow offends Mexicans? That only incites the Mexican students to feel the way they behaved. Then denies the offenders a days worth of education. What country is this school in again?
He only apologized because he got caught and the media got involved.
It is actually even worse if he "asked" rather than reminding all students what country this is instead of giving the students the idea that it is disrespect to show American patriotism on any said day.
To some Mexican students hearing "Don't wear or take off American Patriotic symbols" means to them "America is not Mexico and thus disrespecting my heritage. The authority figure tells them to remove their American patriotic clothing so they are disrespecting me"
The district does not back him on this. The principal had no authority even if he did "ask" as you can see from the district's response condemning his actions. As you can see his actions promoted 200 some students to skip class to demonstrate some sort of respect and "yes we can".
Stop defending this crap. You questioned every quote I put on this story, and I have
dragged you to it each time; as usual. A simple grep of quote on the internet would bring it to each time if you couldn't read or watch or doubted what was in front of you; as usual.
From your first post "those kids disrespected the flag" you took issue with this story.
Oh and heck yes the parents of the boys who wore the flag or the flag colors should demand a full apology of the principal. This is unprofessional foolishness that should not be tolerated. In my opinion he should be fired for either just ignorance or incompetence for either directly or indirectly inciting a riot or putting students in danger. Plus where are the parents of these 200 kids who skipped school or shunned these students?
Yeah I might be beating this story a little hard, but I weep for the future of this country when I see stuff like this.
"mmm mmm mmm mmm mmmm Yes we can"? No we can't.