Posted on 03/31/2006 2:09:54 PM PST by MadeInAmerica
I didn't see a specific thread on this sick one... It only gets worse.... (First topic post...be nice:)
From the DenverChannel.com
LONGMONT, Colo. -- 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.
Read more if you can take it. http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/8385889/detail.html
Revoke the taxpayer funds then. School collapses. Yay.
And then I go and miss the W in Allowed. ROFL....Can admin fix?
I have had it up to here with the punks walking out!
Sad to have this kind of people running our Schools.!!!
Send this to Tom Tancredo. I'd love to see his response.
Ahhh, I see it posted, thanks...so ticked right now I'm smokin
No U.S. flags allowed ping. . .
The socialists of liberal academia are just gettin worse. The high responsibility of education should be taken away from the government and put in the private sector. Get rid of this twisted pinko academia that is so anti-American, that our kids should get no where near them.
The liberal infested public school system in action.
Perhaps you were subconsciously sending the message, "No, W!" on the immigration issue?
Red state alert. What is going on with Red States lately? Do they want to turn blue or something? Funny I was thinking that the U.S. was turning more red, but after the last year I can't say what color the map is turning.
What if they stand and recite the Pledge of Allegience?
Perhaps you were subconsciously sending the message, "No, W!" on the immigration issue?
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ROFLOL...that was too funny. Probably some truth as well.
All the students should make color copies of the flag and glue it on their notebooks for the remainder of the school year.
In Fairfax County, Virginia students were apparently allowed to leave school to protest in favor of the illegal criminals (maybe protests favoring child rapists will be next). During the march, one 16-year-old scholar/protester was stabbed by a 17-year-old and ended up in a hospital. I wonder if it is at tax-payer expense.
Hell, this is nothing new, 90 % of the rest of the world has found it inflammatory for decades.
If this school board had any "cajones" they'd ban all flags but the U.S. Flag
Yeah i know I'm an intollerant ugly American, BUT I'm also a pissed off American who's tired of pandering and bending over to the rest of the nuts in this world.
Anyone notice they don't 'March' or 'Protest' after 3 pm? Punks is right.
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.
Revoke the taxpayers funds then, School collapses. Yay.
I say next payday pay the teachers in Mexican pesos.
my reading says the students walked out because the American flag "isn't" allowed to be flown? Am I missing something?
Newark,NJ is full of schools that do not fly the American flag. They do have the Puerto Rican flag, and flags of other countries but not Old Glory.
It was in nearby Wheat Ridge, Colorado, where a school counselor took it upon herself to change the wording of the Pledge of Allegiance from "one nation under God" to "one nation under your belief system." The counselor claimed that she wanted to prevent "offending" any students or teachers by the mention of God. Can it be that the Longmont, Colorado, school officials find the Stars and Stripes offensive? Who in that beautiful state would be offended by the US flag--unless, of course, the offended party is Ward Churchill?
I grew up in Longmont. Some areas of the town we used to call "Taco Flats" (if that is offensive, suck it up). This area is in the Skyline HS area. Some extremely rich kids, and some extremely poor kids. Not a whole lot of in between. This does not surprise me. The Niwot HS (I went there) walk out shocked me tho'.
In Colorado, it was March 19, 2003 at 10:15pm EST.
Bump for Mods putting this back up in News forum.
You know what is really funny about this. When the real far left (communists) take over like in Russia or China, who are one of the first ones they exterminate. The teachers and politicians because they know they are the ones they have to worry about the most.
I think it's almost time.
"Taco Flats" (if that is offensive, suck it up).
"Taco Flats"? I could never be offended by that. I never even heard of it before. Actually, it takes ALOT to offend me. Believe me even some flames I get on FREEPERS don't offend me and I get quite a few...LOL.
Read his statement....I've read somthing like that before...just can't place it.
Principal
Tom Stumpf
"As an educational leader, I am powerfully committed to collaboratively
promote the successful learning of all students at Skyline High School,
while simultaneously optimizing humaneness and respect for all, staff and students alike." Tom Stumpf, Principal
I'm not saying you, in particular, but anyone reading it.
That's right down the road from me. Who knew?
OMG, He was my principal at Niwot when I was there 20 years ago. Our VP was Jerry something. Our school was run by Tom and Jerry.
It appears Tom and Jerry have been replaced by Dumb and Dummer
If you check out Skyline High School, you'll find it's test scores are below the state average in EVERY subject area. With an idiot like this as principal, it's no wonder why.
It is beginning to appear we are living in "Bizarro America".
He needs a remedial grammar course, stat. Good grief.
So the school officials are now of the position that the freedom of speech exists only when there are no tensions. That is, if one side becomes inflamed, all the world can hear only their speech. All other sides must remain quiet.
End the Apartheid in public schools.
Divest from all government-paid education!!
Good first post.
Sounds like the guy is eaten up with Ur-Liberal PC-speak. Guess that's what he's been working on the last 20 years.....instead of getting his students' test grades up.
What a nitwit.
Does anyone know a lawyer, judge, expert that could inform us about any legal action we could take?
Skyline High School information:
Grades: 9-12
Type: public
Enrollment: 1439
600 East Mountain View
Longmont, CO 80501
Boulder County
Phone: (720) 494-3741
Student Ethnicity
Race/School/State Average
White (not Hispanic)/62%/64%
Hispanic/35%/26%
Black (not Hispanic)/1%/6%
Asian/Pacific Islander/1%/3%
American Indian or Alaskan Native/<1%/1%
Source: CO Dept. of Education, 2004-2005 Ethnicity
Good for them.
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.
Cut all state and federal tax aid, have them get their $ from Mexico.
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