But really? Did you have to let Justin Bieber out? He ruins my day.

• Students in public schools, while on the premises of their school, do not have the unrestricted free speech afforded to the rest of us.  This has been upheld in court case after court case and is the reason student newspapers are restricted in what they can print and the banning of certain hairstyles or clothing items is not unconstitutional.  Go to some schools and you can't wear any flag, certain logos or graphics and even certain colors.

• Students in public schools, while on the premises of their school, do not have the unrestricted free speech afforded to the rest of us.  This has been upheld in court case after court case and is the reason student newspapers are restricted in what they can print and the banning of certain hairstyles or clothing items is not unconstitutional.  Go to some schools and you can't wear any flag, certain logos or graphics and even certain colors.
  

• The primary function of a school is to provide children with an education.  In order to do so, they must take measures, usually unpopular and sometimes drastic, to ensure the student body is disrupted and distracted as little as possible.  What Tallen said about this not being a real holiday is true, and when coupled with the fact that the offending clothing items represented the American flag, it seems, and is, ridiculous that students were getting upset (which they were - watch the video).  However, ridiculousness of a situation should not come into account with deciding the what actions are to be taken.  Normally none of the above conditions would merit the action taken by the administration, but those who were there at the time did sense the tension and were afraid violence would ensue if something were not done.  With such a predicament the administration was rather limited in the actions they could take and had three possible routes  - deal with the offended, deal the offenders or pop popcorn.
  

• The "best" (see: most American) route would be to deal with the offended.  While this might be the more savory the the two, it is also the more impractical.  For reasons I shouldn't have to elaborate on, one can not send an entire ethnicity of people home.  So what options are left?  Sending those who are angry home?  As the Hispanic population makes up 40% of the school, it would have been impossible single out students based on how angry they were and how likely they would be to act on this anger in any reasonable length of time.  If you doubt the impracticality of this option and still see it as viable, how angry must the students be to qualify being sent home?  Do you only send those home who are furious? What about those slightly mad or barely perturbed?  Besides, "being mad" has never been grounds for being sent home before.
• The second route is to deal with the offenders, which is what the school did.   In doing so, sending the kids home was the action taken only after asking them to change or turn the shirt inside out.  Outside of these three options, there were no actions that could have been taken with the offending students that could have changed the situation.  Moreover, the school did not punish the kids outside of the single day and did not suspend them or anything of that nature, thereby showing they are more reasonable than most school districts - most have a habit of overreacting and suspending kids when such a consequence hardly fits the offense.
  
• Finally, they could have just popped some popcorn and watched the show.  This would have been negligent and irresponsible and only an option to those who would not mind risking their job in an attempt to remain uncaring, impartial or politically correct.

• One must also keep in mind that by the time the administration learned of the disruption, they had probably 30 minutes at most to make a decision to the best of their abilities.
• As far as the "if the 'Murican" flag offends ewe, geet out of mah country" comments are concerned, I hope you guys were joking about suspending and/or deporting people who feel this way.  If not, you should realize that this is hardly a legal reason to remove someone from school/ the country.  If you wish it were a legal reason, you should go to prison, write a book, assume leadership of the country and start a war.  You can persecute everyone who is un-'Murican then.