Five California middle school students were sent home for wearing T-shirts with American Flag artwork on Thursday, May 5th out of fears that wearing such was not appropriate on Cinco de Mayo, the celebration of Mexican independence where students would be wearing Mexican colors much as many wear green on St. Patrick’s Day for its Irish heritage. For grown ups, the Mexican holiday is becoming another excuse to hit the bars and get drunk like its November counterpart, but that’s a discussion for another day.Since when is ever wearing something that salutes our country wrong? Why should anyone have any concerns about the American flag? Quite honestly, if wearing the flag would make some uncomfortable or incite any problems, the attention should be directed at those who would be aggravated. While it’s fashionable to knock traditional patriotic symbols and the left has a strong anti-American, anti military view point, the rest of us know better.
Fortunately the Santa Cruz school board did not stand behind the idiotic decision of Morgan Hill Middle School’s cowardly and defensive administration, but the damage had been done, the students were sent home, and the battle lines were drawn that polarized the school community causing students considering themselves pro-Latino to walk out the following day.
The bottom line is it seems in today’s world, kids would be totally free to wear clothing depicting Che Guevara or any revolutionary movement but something that’s patently all-American, look out!
Schools are so paranoid and their political correctness and extreme adherence to Nanny State abuse are completely out of control. Such a climate makes spineless administrators do stupid things. It’s happening right now at public school near you. Accommodate the cry babies, attack the longstanding traditional values which have served our civilization so well.
Display the flag proudly. It’s a symbol of freedom around the world, a lesson somehow forgotten by too many close to home.
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