This has got to STOP!!

[Paparazzi LEO]

California Students Sent Home for Wearing U.S. Flags on Cinco de Mayo

WTF? What is this country coming to with all of this LIBERAL BULLCRAP!!

This is AMERICA!!! If this story does not make you outraged then you need to take a long hard look at yourself in the mirror!!


Administrators at a California high school sent five students home on Wednesday after they refused to remove their American flag T-shirts and bandannas -- garments the school officials deemed "incendiary" on Cinco de Mayo.

The five teens were sitting at a table outside Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, Calif., on Wednesday morning when Assistant Principal Miguel Rodriguez asked two of them to remove their American flag bandannas, one of their parents told FoxNews.com. The boys complied, but were asked to accompany Rodriguez to the principal's office.

The five students -- Daniel Galli, Austin Carvalho, Matt Dariano, Dominic Maciel and Clayton Howard -- were then told they must turn their T-shirts inside-out or be sent home, though it would not be considered a suspension. Rodriguez told the students he did not want any fights to break out between Mexican-American students celebrating their heritage and those wearing American flags.

Dariano's mother, Diana, told FoxNews.com she and parents of the other four students are now demanding an apology from officials and are considering a lawsuit.

"We want an apology," Diana Dariano said Thursday. "Who in the United States of America would have an issue with that? It's a sad, sad day."

Dariano said her son has at least four T-shirts with American flags that he wears often and did not try to cause any conflict at school.

"I'm more hurt than anything," she said. "It is so hurtful and disrespectful the way this has turned. These are American kids."

The boys told Rodriguez and Principal Nick Boden that turning their shirts inside-out was disrespectful, so their parents decided to take them home.

"I just couldn't believe it," Julie Fagerstrom, Maciel's mother, told the Morgan Hill Times. "I'm an open-minded parent, but it's got to be on both sides. It can't be five kids singled out."

Galli told NBC Bay Area, "They said we could wear it on any other day, but today is sensitive to Mexican-Americans because it's supposed to be their holiday so we were not allowed to wear it."

In a statement released Thursday, Morgan Hill Unified School District Superintendent Wesley Smith characterized the incident as "extremely unfortunate" and said the matter is under investigation.

"The Morgan Hill Unified School District does not prohibit nor do we discourage wearing patriotic clothing," Smith's statement read. "The incident on May 5 at Live Oak High School is extremely unfortunate. While campus safety is our primary concern and administrators made decisions yesterday in an attempt to ensure campus safety, students should not, and will not, be disciplined for wearing patriotic clothing. This matter is under investigation and appropriate action will be taken."

Officials at Live Oak High School did not return several messages seeking comment on Thursday. A secretary told the Morgan Hill Times that Boden and Rodriguez were unavailable for comment on Wednesday.

According to its website, Live Oak High School is a 1,300-student institution in the southern part of Santa Clara County, with most students residing in the nearby cities of Morgan Hill and San Jose.

"The student population reflects the rich ethnic and socioeconomic diversity of the community," the website reads.

More than 100 students were spotted wearing the colors of the Mexican flag -- red, white and green -- as they left school, including some who had the flag painted on their faces or arms, the Morgan Hill times reported.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/05/06...gs-cinco-mayo/

"Assistant Principal Miguel Rodriguez" What do you expect? Need I say more?

"Assistant Principal Miguel Rodriguez" What do you expect? Need I say more?

:cry:

Whats even worse is that our elected leaders...mainly the demoRAT party could care less.

Pappy, Pappy, Pappy... you crack me up man! You don't waste a second slamming anyone on here who dares to second guess a deputy's actions from afar based on what they read in the paper. Yet you have no problem Monday morning quarterbacking an assistant principal at a school 3000 miles away when you know nothing about the situation other then what you read in the paper. Ironic!

Spare me your righteous indignation. You have no idea what the demographics of the school are, the racial tensions there, and past issues with security etc.

"This is AMERICA!!! If this story does not make you outraged then you need to take a long hard look at yourself in the mirror!!"

Umm yeah... that's the kind of hyperbolic rhetoric i'd expect from someone who reads FOXNEWS.COM alright. :roll:

Hey guest do your realy think you pals of cnn or messnbc are going to report this? Of course not. Stick your head back in the sand. :x

[Paparazzi LEO]

Spare me your righteous indignation. You have no idea what the demographics of the school are, the racial tensions there, and past issues with security etc.

Hey liberal FOOL... your attitude is exactly why this country is where it is...

This is AMERICA!! It does not matter what the demographics are! The demographics should be that everyone there is an AMERICAN and respects the American flag and way of life.

Are you telling me that because the demographics (More illegal Mexican / hispanic out numbers the Americans / any nationality) should be taken into consideration of wether we can fly our flag or not. If that is what you are saying then not only are you a liberal fool but a friggin communist!

I don't give two s*^ts about the "Racial Tension". If everyone there was an AMERICAN, supporting the AMERICAN flag, values and way of life, there would be no "Racial Tension". Only when ther are persons who are not Americans, who disrespect Americans, our values and way of life, are there "Racial Tensions".

And as for the "Security" issue... that all falls back on the fact that there is NO RESPECT for authority (authority defined as: teachers, adults or police). Those demographic, racial tension, illegal border crossing kids learned no values or respect from their parents and therefore show no respect for anyone else!

Those parents taught their children that laws do not matter! Those parents taught their children that there is no accountability for your actions! Those parents taught their children that AMERICA OWES them something because they are poor and America is rich! Those parents taught their children that if they do not get their way to shout Demographics, racial tension, racial profiling, civil liberyt abuses and you LIBERAL FOOLS will support and defend their twisted beliefs.

Because while you sit here and tell me that I am wrong for "Judging" an area of the United States who is over-populated by illegal aliens that on a day that has nothing to do with AMERICA that I am suppose to have compassion for people who have no respect for my country but has fled their country because it SUCKS... those illegal, anti-american aliens are using your pansy compassion ways to destroy AMERICA.

Yea right... I'd expect that from someone who watches CNN and voted for OBAMA.

Kiss my REPUBLICAN / American / Tea Party supporting AZZ!! This is AMERICA... I am an AMERICAN... and as far as I am concerned, any AMERICAN can fly or wear our flag at anytime, anyplace on ANY DAY... despite what the media may or may not say!

GOD Bless AMERICA!

[Curios George]

I have to agree with Pappy on this one. Take a look at the latest reports about this situation:

Tensions are rising at a California high school where five students were sent home for wearing American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo.

More than 200 Hispanic students reportedly skipped class on Thursday and marched to school district headquarters while chanting "we want respect" and "si se puedes" -- "yes we can"

Hmmm, respect?

How about respecting the fact that you are living in the U.S. and not Mexico.

How about respecting the fact that you are going to an American school.

I won't even touch on respecting our laws and culture...

Preach it Pappy....preach it!

LOL, typical teabagging sheeple response. I see FOX's journalism for the joke it is so i must be an Obama loving liberal who believes everything CNN and MSNBC report as if it's the gospel truth. My point was your a hypocrite. your quick to judge others for their actions without knowing all the facts, yet you get hot headed when anyone else dares to second guess the circumstances involving an officer and his decisions. :wink: