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    Posted: 06 May 2010 at 10:29am
I nominate this principle for DBag of the month award!
 
 
 
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Wow.


While I don't believe they didn't do it to envoke reaction, I don't think it was okay to send them home for wearing it.
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...Really?

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I wish I would have known that getting a free day off was as easy as wearing a flag when I was in high school
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It's not even a Mexican holiday, it's only celebrated in Pueblo and even then, not in the style which is purported by all the beer companies that pushed it on the public here in the US.

I wonder if the principal sent students wearing american flag themed shirts or even orange shirts home on March 17th.
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Yay for stupid people reacting to other stupid people.

He couldn't just ask them to turn them inside out?
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Originally posted by ParielIsBack ParielIsBack wrote:

Yay for stupid people reacting to other stupid people.

He couldn't just ask them to turn them inside out?
He did. They refused.
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Originally posted by __sneaky__ __sneaky__ wrote:

Originally posted by ParielIsBack ParielIsBack wrote:

Yay for stupid people reacting to other stupid people.

He couldn't just ask them to turn them inside out?
He did. They refused.

So it's wrong to live in America and wear a t-shirt with an American flag on it?
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please FE, you can come up with better than that...
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Originally posted by Ceesman762 Ceesman762 wrote:

Originally posted by __sneaky__ __sneaky__ wrote:

Originally posted by ParielIsBack ParielIsBack wrote:

Yay for stupid people reacting to other stupid people.

He couldn't just ask them to turn them inside out?
He did. They refused.

So it's wrong to live in America and wear a t-shirt with an American flag on it?
I would have refused to as well and probably been suspended for giving the principal a one fingererd salute along with "k.. my....s"
 
Does it make it any better that the principal is Hispanic?
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Originally posted by Ceesman762 Ceesman762 wrote:

Originally posted by __sneaky__ __sneaky__ wrote:

Originally posted by ParielIsBack ParielIsBack wrote:

Yay for stupid people reacting to other stupid people.

He couldn't just ask them to turn them inside out?
He did. They refused.

So it's wrong to live in America and wear a t-shirt with an American flag on it?
Absolutely not. I think it's ridiculous that they were asked to take off their shirts or turn them inside out. I also have no doubt in my mind that these kids wore the shirts to be d-bags, and had nothing to do with patriotism, but that's not really relevant.
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Originally posted by __sneaky__ __sneaky__ wrote:

Originally posted by Ceesman762 Ceesman762 wrote:

Originally posted by __sneaky__ __sneaky__ wrote:

Originally posted by ParielIsBack ParielIsBack wrote:

Yay for stupid people reacting to other stupid people.

He couldn't just ask them to turn them inside out?
He did. They refused.

So it's wrong to live in America and wear a t-shirt with an American flag on it?
Absolutely not. I think it's ridiculous that they were asked to take off their shirts or turn them inside out. I also have no doubt in my mind that these kids wore the shirts to be d-bags, and had nothing to do with patriotism, but that's not really relevant.


It's entirely relevant. Playing devil's advocate here, a school environment is no place for instigating confrontation. It was in the interest of the general learning environment to prevent it. Do we know how apparent it was that these students wearing the flags were doing it just to instigate a reaction? Do they get a free pass, just because it's a flag?
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D-bags or not, they were not offending any one. That principal needs a taking to the wood shed and introduced a comedy club.


Edited by Ceesman762 - 06 May 2010 at 1:33pm
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^^^ We don't know that. Perhaps it was because of pressuring that the administration intervened.
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NUTS...
 
 
 
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Originally posted by Magoo Magoo wrote:

Originally posted by __sneaky__ __sneaky__ wrote:

Originally posted by Ceesman762 Ceesman762 wrote:

Originally posted by __sneaky__ __sneaky__ wrote:

Originally posted by ParielIsBack ParielIsBack wrote:

Yay for stupid people reacting to other stupid people.

He couldn't just ask them to turn them inside out?
He did. They refused.

So it's wrong to live in America and wear a t-shirt with an American flag on it?
Absolutely not. I think it's ridiculous that they were asked to take off their shirts or turn them inside out. I also have no doubt in my mind that these kids wore the shirts to be d-bags, and had nothing to do with patriotism, but that's not really relevant.


It's entirely relevant. Playing devil's advocate here, a school environment is no place for instigating confrontation. It was in the interest of the general learning environment to prevent it. Do we know how apparent it was that these students wearing the flags were doing it just to instigate a reaction? Do they get a free pass, just because it's a flag?

Creating a non-hostile(I'm using that term loosely here) school environment is no grounds for trampling over a citizen's rights.
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Wait wait wait... we're in America, and an American school got mad at people wearing American clothing? Screw that.



The vice principal better lose his job... and I'm not one to throw that around lightly.




Eville, if it was getting hostile, send the kids home who were getting mad at American flag shirts as a UNIVERSALLY non-offensive shirt cannot be considered hostile.

Edited by Linus - 06 May 2010 at 1:45pm

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I don't see how this was an issue.  Unless it actually instigated something, I don't see why they were sent home.

Vice principals were invented to overreact.
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If someone starts a fight because they don't like that someone is wearing an American flag shirt, then the person starting the fight should be removed from the school.
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