U.S. Flag Banned (At CO Schools) Amid Racial Tensions

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[HHKrepublican_2]

LONGMONT, Colo. (April 1) - Dozens of high school students protested a temporary school policy forbidding students from displaying the U.S. flag- (SNIP)

Students were warned about the policy Friday and several were suspended, although Stumpf would not provide details. Then, about 100 students protested during lunch time.

Student Dustin Carlson told Denver station KCNC-TV that he was suspended for two days.

[HHKrepublican_2]

Students were warned about the policy Friday and several were suspended

I'm speechless.

[pollywog]

This is UNREAL!!!

[stands2reason]

bttt

[sure_fine]

"When it involves the American flag and its abuse in vilifying other people, we simply will not tolerate it," Stumpf said. "They were using the symbol derisively as misguided patriotism."

[stopem]

Go to the article and take the poll.

[mtbopfuyn]

First it's the Bible and now Old Glory. We're being invaded and don't know it.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Government schools delenda est.

[Natural Law]

The Principal over stepped his authority.

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.

[yldstrk]

I'm speechless.

[Jim Robinson]

One suspended patriot says:

"I'm getting suspended for it and personally I think that's uncalled for," he said. "If this country means freedom, then why can't we fly our own flag? It's ridiculous."

[FreedomPoster]

Well put.

[BenLurkin]

Outrage.

[sgtbono2002]

Somebody needs to remind this principal earnestly. that this is America and we fly our flag here and if he doesnt want to he can be replaced.

I would reccommend the local American Legion and VFW pay him a visit.

[Ptarmigan]

Okay, this is just f***ed up! America represents everyone regardless of race. If they don't like it, the they can get the f*** out of America.

[upchuck]

Some good news: the poll results:

Did the school make the right decision in banning the U.S. flag?
No 88%
Yes 12%
Total votes: 111,296

[OldFriend]

112,000 people disagreed with the principal. 88%.

[pennyfarmer]

HEIL HITLER, STALIN and any other opressive bi*** you can think off. KILL,KILL,KILLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

[HHKrepublican_2]

I have a feeling he is either a gay liberal or a mexican. (Or a unique combo of both)

[CedarDave]

From an article here:

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/8385889/detail.html

We aren't just talking about waving a flag, but the ban this week prohibits students from displaying, wearing or flying any flag. Thus a flag on a bookpack, shirt, jacket or a lapel pin is banned, including a flag on a student's car. I'd just like to see them try to kick a sibling or son/daughter of an American serving his country in Iraq out of school for this. There would be so many protests that the school board would have to have extra security at the next meeting and more than one lawyer would sue the district for any number of reasons.

[jazusamo]

"When it involves the American flag and its abuse in vilifying other people, we simply will not tolerate it," Stumpf said.

I would like to know from principal Stumpf how an American can vilify a person in America with "Old Glory." This man should be fired.

[Brilliant]

It looks like the authorities have lost control. Now is the time to rub their nose in it.

[melt]

So it's come to this. Under "free speech", you can't fly the flag--- but you sure as hell can burn it.

[skip_intro]

112,000 people disagreed with the principal. 88%.

Means nothing.

60% of the State of California passed Prop 187.

One judge overturned it.

Guess who won.

[CedarDave]

From this morning's Denver Post :

"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?" student William Cassity said to 7News.

Two state lawmakers weighed in from their shared office at the Capitol on Friday with e-mails criticizing Stumpf's flag rule.

"Be prepared for legislative action and legal action against you to follow," wrote Republican Sen. Steve Johnson of Fort Collins.

His office mate, Sen. Tom Wiens, R-Castle Rock, said in an interview that Stumpf should have found some other way to ease the tensions in his school. "Clearly, there are ways ... to manage any sort of conflict that students might have that don't diminish the respect that we should have for the flag," Wiens said.

[proust]

Does this school even have a pledge of alligence or national anthem anymore?

[Dallas59]

So now it's racist to display the American flag.

[My Favorite Headache]

TOTAL GARBAGE

[4U2OUI]

Here he is:

http://www.stvrain.k12.co.us/Skyline/administration.html

How 'bout some nice emails FReeper-style!

[AgentEcho]

My senior year in high school (1988) I refused to say the national anthem because I came during a class with a teacher that refused to display the flag. In my opinion you face the flag and make the pledge.

She told me to solve the problem without a perminant mark on the classroom.

I began wearing my EF-111 flight jacket (all correct patches)to class (she despised that).

I would pull some velcro wall decoration off and apply the american flag in its place and say the pledge. Did I mention that I had my entire class supporting me.

Oh, and by the way it was a Government/Economics class.

Æ

[stopem]

Results of the poll

Did the school make the right decision in banning the U.S. flag?
No 88%
Yes 12%
Total Votes: 119,734
Note on Poll Results

[CedarDave]

And from the Rocky Mountain News:

The ban includes T-shirts and other clothing that have replicas of the flags. At least for now, it also includes Mexican or American flags flown from the antennas of cars parked on school property.

[4U2OUI]

His email addy:

stumpf_thomas@stvrain.k12.co.us

[nralife]

ping!

[OldFriend]

Good for you. CAn you tell us what state?

[skip_intro]

From Principal Tom Stumpf's bio:

""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

This sounds like it was written by an eighth grader trying to pad an essay exam.

[operation clinton cleanup]

"They were using the symbol derisively as misguided patriotism."

But if they burned it, everything would be just hunky dorey?

[SandRat]

You are being over complimentary.

[Lancey Howard]

Stumpf is a coward and a scumbag.

[CedarDave]

Previous threads:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1607499/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1607391/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1607343/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1607066/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1607073/posts

[UB355]

I'm from the MIlwaukee Area. There is no St Francis College. St Francis Seminary is a Catholic Institution. This guy may or may not have been trained as a Catholic Priest. To deny that is odd.

[AFreeBird]

Un freakin believable!

Seething, boiling, my teeth and jaw hurt cause their clenched in rage.

If those idiots in Washington don't do something about this and soon, I fear the backlash is going to be very, very ugly!

[4U2OUI]

He needs to add:

"America-hating anglophobe quisling of the fifth column. And, I have no b@lls."

[SkyPilot]

_{Skyline High School students rally across the street from the school on Friday after U.S. flags were banned on the campus in Longmont, Colo.}

These kids are flying the flag of their nation. Now, this is a "crime."

Unbelievable.

"When it involves the American flag and its abuse in vilifying other people, we simply will not tolerate it," Stumpf said. "They were using the symbol derisively as misguided patriotism."

Tom Stumpf, Principal

stumpf_thomas@stvrain.k12.co.us

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

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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.

---

"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

[Lancey Howard]

"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

Yikes! This assclown Stumpf needs to get away from school for a few years.

[sgtbono2002]

Is that combination really that unique?

[hodaka]

What is going on in this country? What really surprises me is all this illegal immigrant problems, gas price problems, and anti-american feelings are taking place with Republicans in full control of the executive and legislative branches.

[CedarDave]

Some of these students were suspended -- not for walking out in protest (idiot principal supports that right), but for displaying the flag.

[hsalaw]

Poll: Did the school make the right decision in banning display of the US flag? No: 88%; yes 12%. Who the heck are those 12%?

[M203M4]

"zOMG, April fools!!!!"

A guy can wish, can't he?

But that there is a call for severe civil disobedience. Anyone in the area capable of and willing to organize it?