Posted on 03/31/2006 9:39:18 AM PST by Crackingham
The family of a high school sophomore has filed a suit seeking to force school officials to allow the girl to wear clothing with Confederate flag images. The federal lawsuit was filed Thursday by the North Carolina-based Southern Legal Resource Center, a Confederate heritage legal advocacy group.
Candice Hardwick, 15, said she wants to wear the Confederate emblem to pay tribute to an ancestor who fought for the South in the Civil War. Latta High School officials say the symbol, which many people consider racially charged, is disruptive in school, and that district policies allow principals to ban such clothing. The teen said she has been forced to change clothes or turn her shirt inside-out. She said she has been suspended twice and threatened with being kicked off the track team.
Its the Nazification of an entire demographic of American people. True American people, the Southerner. Of which there would probably not be an America if not for victories fought by southerners at two little places called Kings Mountain and Cowpens.
BUMP.
As long as the leftists are using the courts to impose their ideology on the rest of us, we should use the courts to block them. 'Nuff said.
Good point, but I think most people are forgetting the moral aspects. Regardless of whether or not she has the freedom to wear it, morally she should not. Society can morally condemn actions that the government should not prohibit.
You don't get it. Mexicans can wave their flag, blacks can call you honky. Affirmative Action must redress these imbalances; you, however, have no right to your racist past.
Who says so? Why, the US government.
What is the legal distinction between religious speech political content from a constitutional standpoint? What really bugs me is that with all the peversion that is expressed in the pop culture, this girl has to go through all of this because she wants honor her southern heritage. This is not the same country it used to be.
Is it appropriate for the school to set dress codes based on a person's beliefs, though?
I.e., students wearing pro-homosexual clothing are not reprimanded in the least, but students wearing Confederate symbols are? How is that fair?
Either have a dress code which forbids all political symbolsNO MATTER WHATor allow all of them. That, to me, is what defines a "Fair" dress code. We'll see if the Courts agree.
The symbol is not disruptive, it's the other students and teachers that have disruptive behavior.
We have seen this before, and thank God, the school systems are starting to lose these battles. Unfortunately for every one we win, another two idiots pop up somewhere else. She'll probably win though.
No, I don't think so.
I hope she wins. It is time to stand up for Southern values somewhere. Why not in the South?
I know a fair number of blacks who would wear such a shirt if they were "free" of the coercion of peers.
I don't decide whether something is whacked out or not based on the person or the 'side' they are on. I look at the substance of what they are saying.
A school can have a dress code. I think that's legitimate. Nobody (except maybe a parent figure) is stopping the student from dressing in any way they want on their own time. This kind of lawsuit is dumb no matter who is making the case.
I didn't broach the moral aspect of it. I don't think wearing confederacy nostalgic clothing is necessarily a moral issue.
For me, this is about a school setting a dress code. Their dress code should be fair and evenhanded, I agree with that, though.
I have no problem with the school setting a dress code for its students. Both religious speech and political speech are protected by the USC.
But nobody is stopping the student from expressing anything - the school is just holding her to a standard when sher is on school grounds.
That's entirely legitimate.
This photo has BEEN MADE POSSIBLE by the kind of politically-correct pandering which has caused the suppression of Confederate symbols:
Can we at least get a bit of credit over here for predicting this outcome? ;)
I don't think its that simple, but I am all for an evenhanded dress code.
Thanks for the agreement, Hitman. I am all for a dress code as wellin the form of a school uniform. Students are, in my opinion, in school to be educated, not to be indoctrinated, espouse beliefs, cause or participate in debates over "rights," not to protest in the streets, etc. I don't think it's fair at all, though, to define an arbitrary dress code which only punishes beliefs which are contrary to the established Liberal ruling class.
Regards,
~dt~
Check out Fairfax County's dress code, if I may use a local example. The following are barred:
The school did, however, have to provide security for a friend of mine who had the gall to write and publish an article in the school newspaper supporting the mere right of students to wear Confederate symbols. (Let's just say that there were certain... ethnic groups... who were threatening violence against him.)
Does my objection to what passes as a dress code make more sense in this context? Can you see what people such as myself are frustrated about, whenever we read stories such as this one?
Kindest regards,
~dt~
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