Students Who Want To Fly American Flags Walk Out

The Denver Channel ^ | 3/31/06 | Staff

[Millee]

More than two dozen students walked out of Skyline High School Friday morning to protest what they say is a ban that doesn't allow the American flag to be flown on school grounds.

Several students said that they were upset that Mexican flags can be waved around but that American flags couldn't. They said that school officials confiscated their American flags because it has become inflammatory because of recent immigration issues.

"When the immigration laws came out we noticed that a lot of Hispanics were waving Mexican flags and what we were thinking to ourselves is like, isn't the immigration law to stay in the country? You want to stay in America, correct? So I said, for every Mexican flag, you should have an American flag right next to it. So a few people went out and started waving American flags, and that's where everything bridged out," said Skyline student R.J. Fogal. "That's when they started telling us that we can't wave American flags, there's going to be no flags today, or everyone is going to be suspended -- whoever carries a flag."

"What we want to know is since when was it against the rules to have an American flag on a car, in a car, in your hands in a school?" said student William Cassity.

Skyline principal Tom Stumpf said that the school enacted a ban this week that prohibits students to display, wear or fly any flag -- American or Mexican.

"The (policy) evolved because the flags were being used, not as a symbol of cultural heritage, but the flags were being used as symbols of bigotry, a symbol of hostility. They were being used to inflame different groups and we're simply not going to tolerate that at Skyline High School," Stumpf said.

"My paramount obligation, my solemn obligation at Skyline High School, is to provide a safe and secure environment and with the flags being used as a catalyst to stir up the students, to stir up the environment, I cannot condone that ... One flag was thrown into the face of another group and another flag was being brandished in front of another group and it was done to raise emotions, and we don't want that. We want respect -- that's our main goal at Skyline High School," he said.

The school has a diverse population and some students say there have been tensions between different ethnic groups because of the national immigration debate.

"I think our whole society is on different sides of the immigration issue and I can't control that. All I'm asking from our students is respect -- respect for one another, treating each other as they themselves want to be treated, treating each other decently, civilly," Stumpf said.

He said the students have a right to rally and those who walked out of class on Friday would not be punished.

[Millee]

Someone needs to remind this idiot principal exactly which country the school is located. Unreal!

[My2Cents]

It's inflammatory to wave an American flag, but not to wave a Mexican flag?

[cripplecreek]

I'm amazed that there are real live American students in the school.

[My2Cents]

People are starting to get angry about all this cr@p. I guess there IS hope for America.

[satchmodog9]

Makes you really want to send your kids to school.

[ziggy_dlo]

HE SAID NOTHING WHILE THE MEXICAN POPULATION DID SO BUT NOW WHEN AMERICANS WANT TO STAND UP FOR THEIR COUNTRY
"WERE NOT GOING TO BE FLYING ANYTHING"
B.S

[Millee]

I wondering if this school has a flag pole, and if so, what's flying on it?

[madison10]

I wondering if this school has a flag pole, and if so, what's flying on it?

The Jolly Roger? Star and Crescent?

[BallyBill]

Such a great example for the kids. The kids in school have more guts and common sense than the principal.

[Maceman]

The Jolly Roger? Star and Crescent?

[GoRepGo]

Nex thing you know some retard will be wanting to outlaw flagpoles.

[Dashing Dasher]

More than two dozen students walked out of Skyline High School Friday morning to protest what they say is a ban that doesn't allow the American flag to be flown on school grounds.

Several students said that they were upset that Mexican flags can be waved around but that American flags couldn't. They said that school officials confiscated their American flags because it has become inflammatory because of recent immigration issues.

I love those kids!

America! !#@$ YEAH!

[truth_seeker]

"I wondering if this school has a flag pole, and if so, what's flying on it?"

Most likely it flies an American flag and a state flag, like most every school and government building in the country.

[CedarDave]

Wonder what the principal would do if a student came to school with a flag patch on his book daypack? Expel the student? Rip the patch off? Have him arrested?

I see a big juicy lawsuit directed at the school and school district if he tried that. Almost makes me wish I was a student again so that I could challenge it.

[CedarDave]

Mods just pulled the thread in the News forum -- guess they don't want too many to see this and want to avoid our getting worked up about this.

[teenyelliott]

He said the students have a right to rally and those who walked out of class on Friday would not be punished.

WHAT????? It is not a right to rally when you are a minor and are supposed to be in school. Rally on the weekends, you stupid little .. .

And no American flag? I don't give a crap what "gets inflamed". We are in America, and a flag should be flying at every school.

Oh, what I would do if my kid were told she couldn't wear a shirt with an American flag on it.

[MadeInAmerica]

IMO, we need to "VERY HARSHLY" punish and fine ANY business that hires illegals.....We won't need to send them back.....they will go back on their own.

The jobs no American wants to do???????.....PRISONERS can do them to pay back society for their crimes.

[MadeInAmerica]

Yeah...they pulled the other one. :(

It should be posted every time it clears off the main page IMO.

This is going to get UGLY

[CedarDave]

Need to find a sibling of an American solider fighting in Iraq and have him/her wear a flag patch and have him expelled/suspended for breaking school rules. That would really cause the principal some gas, and probably get the school board members thrown out if they supported him.

[HiJinx]

Mods just pulled the thread in the News forum -- guess they don't want too many to see this and want to avoid our getting worked up about this.

"More than one way to skin a cat..." Ping!

[CedarDave]

Look like the other one is back up.

[blackie]

Protect our borders and coastlines from all foreign invaders!

Support our Minutemen Patriots!

Be Ever Vigilant!

[skeeter]

Stumpf - sounds more like a description of the principal's capacity for reason.

[rwfromkansas]

stumpf_thomas@stvrain.k12.co.us

[Texas_Jarhead]

Skyline High School Administration

[blackie]

Roger that, Millee - Stumpf is a typical liberal moonbat!

Be Ever Vigilant!

[Hardastarboard]

some retard will be wanting to outlaw flagpoles.

Just assault flag poles. What do you need one of those for anyway. You can't use those for hunting deer, now can you?

[texastoo]

Thanks for the ping. I don't know what is going to come of all this.

[stands2reason]

"The (policy) evolved because the flags were being used, not as a symbol of cultural heritage,

which was how the good Mexican flag wavers were using it

but the flags were being used as symbols of bigotry, a symbol of hostility.

Like the eeeeevil American flag wavers

They were being used to inflame different groups the Mexicans and we're simply not going to tolerate that at Skyline High School," Stumpf said.

Edited to show what the principal really meant.

[Buffettfan]

The American flag is now a symbol of bigotry? WFT is going on in this great country of ours? This is political correctness out of control. There is going to be a civil war in this damn country and our elected officials have instigated it all.

Semper Fi'
Jarhead

[B4Ranch]

Let's support these students who know what patriotism is.

All FReepers should be flying the American flag outside their businesses and homes until the US Senate takes the vote!

Give your local businesses until Monday to get their flags up and then start boycotting the ones who refuse to fly the flag.

We will soon find out who is ashamed to be flying the American flag and they will be bankrupt shortly.

[humblegunner]

Let's support these students who know what patriotism is.

Hell yes!

[SwinneySwitch]

UNITED STATES CODE
TITLE 36
CHAPTER 10
§174. Time and occasions for display

(e) Display on or near administration building of public institutions The flag should be displayed daily on or near the main administration building of every public institution.

(f) Display in or near polling places The flag should be displayed in or near every polling place on election days.

(g) Display in or near schoolhouses The flag should be displayed during school days in or near every schoolhouse.

[pdunkin]

BUMP

[politicket]

Those in Colorado that are finally sick of this crap can find all they need to know about Colorado homeschooling here: www.chec.org

We've been homeschooling in Colorado for 8+ years and the support networks are GREAT! (And no...your kids will not be social retards - they will just be associating with other kids who aren't into drugs, crime, slothfullness, etc.)

BTW...Colorado just held its annual state Spelling Bee last week. Seven homeschoolers got to participate (they made up a small fraction of the 250+ students at the Bee). Three of the seven finished in the top ten, while five of the seven finished in the top 34. Not bad for kids that studied within their individual family units and received no special spelling training. My homeschooled son won the state competition last year, and the trip to Washington, D.C. for the National Spelling Bee was an absolute blast!!

[SUSSA]

BTT

[EagleUSA]

Mine has been flying since the invasion of Iraq....still flying.

[California Patriot]

Good idea.

[Brad's Gramma]

BUMP THAT!!!!!!

[Czar]

We fly four American flags at our home. Two in front and two in the back. In back, our neighbors across the canyon just installed a 15 - 20 ft flagpole out in back of their place. Quite a few of the residents around here also fly at least one flag.

[Brad's Gramma]

WAY TO GO, Czar!!!!

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

UNITED STATES CODE
TITLE 36
CHAPTER 10
§174. Time and occasions for display
(e) Display on or near administration building of public institutions The flag should be displayed daily on or near the main administration building of every public institution.

(f) Display in or near polling places The flag should be displayed in or near every polling place on election days.

(g) Display in or near schoolhouses The flag should be displayed during school days in or near every schoolhouse.

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"I live in a small farm town in Nelson County, Virginia, and will retire from the Virginia Army National Guard in April 2006, after 22 years. I have spent almost one half of my adult life preparing myself and my soldiers for a time, such as now, that our country might successfully face our enemies, foreign and domestic.

Looking at your webpage this morning and seeing the pictures of the high school students raising a Mexican national flag over an upside down American flag saddened me terribly, insofar as there are American soldiers, Marines, sailors, and airmen currently putting their lives in danger in order to provide these "citizens" the comfort of knowing that their protests will not result in being lined up against a wall and executed for their behavior, as they might in other countries around the world.

What would be interesting to know is if these young men and women are enjoying their educations on the back of the American taxpayer at a public school, while denigrating the country that provides these benefits to them, and so blatantly desecrating the flag that serves as a beacon to draw them to America in the first place."

http://michellemalkin.com/archives/004869.htm

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1605381/posts?page=1853#1853

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1605381/posts?page=1876#1876

[who knows what evil?]

I believe some of these 'kids' are starting to understand that they don't have much of a future unless we put a stop to the invasion of illegals. They will be paying back-breaking taxes, and they will be working in the tomato fields.

[SandRat]

Now those school kids are Americans! Standing up for America!

[Howie66]

"Someone needs to remind this idiot principal exactly which country the school is located. Unreal!"

Better idea.....kick the living crap outta this expletive deleted and then FIRE the worthless SOB.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

"Now those school kids are Americans! Standing up for America!"

The RINO's should be ashamed!