Posted on 08/15/2008 4:24:22 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
Because they are afraid to stand up the the fascism of liberalism. Only liberals seek to stifle freedom of speech. Now, if he were to wear a t-shirt that said, "I support a woman's right to choose!" he would lauded as a hero.
Which means he was told 40 times his attire violated the dress code. I'd say this kid definitely lacks respect for authority.
Confederate “invader”? You do realize that the Union invaded the seceding states? Gettysburg was the sole exception, IIRC.
I live in Georgia and have high school aged kids. A while back Dixie Outfitters was the big rage. They had Rebel Flags on their clothing and I don’t recall anyone making a stink about it.
Just this weekend a bunch of the boys were at my house, some of them were black. Yet they did not seem to mind one bit to ride around in two trucks that had Rebel Flags displayed on them. One of the trucks had the flag on a pole in the back.
I’m not being insensative to the meaning of the flag but with the array of kids that hang out at my house, I never see all these silly racial issues come up. They nickname eachother with regard to race and make comments to eachother and yet they’ve all been friends since grade school.
We had government schools telling us that we couldn’t bring Bibles to school in the 80s. We resisted and won.
Did we lack ‘respect for authority’?
Only if you equate the Bible with clothing, which I don’t.
So liberty has nothing to do with it?
This is a government school we’re talking about. This kid’s family pays taxes which go to the school system. Equal protection cuts both ways. If it were a private school, this would be settled very quickly and decisively.
By the way, I don’t support the idea of public education at all. This is a perfect example of why.
The people of Anderson County did not want the Confederacy in the first place. It was the Union army that was seen as the liberators there.
I’ve seen Confederate flags displayed by individuals in several non-Confederate states, including not only border states which sided with the Union, but even in northern New England, the hotbed of anti-slavery feeling, where statues of Union soldiers stand in many public places.
There’s a teacher in Mount Vernon, Ohio, that has lost his job primarily for presenting creationism AND evolution in his biology class. This same teacher has had a Bible on top of his desk for the entire twenty years he has taught there, but the drive-bys are saying that the Bible had no business on his desk. Don’t think that because we won a battle in the ‘80’s that this was is over.
The real question here is whether or not the ban on clothing that I emphasized above is being enforced as rigorously as the ban on Confederate flag adorned clothing is. If this is true, then it would be hard for me to see a problem with the ban, as schools have an obligation to maintain order and discipline in the classroom.
Of course, having issues with the school dress code only helps to make the case for being allowed to redirect one's school tax payments towards private schooling that would allow for the clothing in question instead, i.e., more of a free market in education.
You make some great observations. The issue is "the meaning" of the flag. I grew up in upstate New York. In Yankee-land numerous kids also wore and displayed the confederate battle flag... But what meaning did it have? It certainly didn't have anything to do with racism. It also didn't have anything to do with Southern heritage... in upstate NY. What "the meaning" of the flag meant to these upstate NY teenagers was BEING A REBEL. All teenagers rebel and the meaning of the flag for these kids was rebellion. The "Don't Tread on Me" flag as well as the Revolutionary War flag with it's circular 13 stars was also popular. The more the Confederate flag is demonized as having only one meaning, the more it will become the symbol of many meanings.
was=war
Challenging ‘authority’ is a patriotic American quality.
Oh, I don’t think that at all. Our battle was local- Hillsborough County FL.
The control freaks don’t bring up that issue any more. They got their heads handed to them.
I attended public school in the 50’s and 60’s. We had a dress code. I agree with dress codes. This has nothing to do with liberty. Schools where I live ask the kids not to wear band t-shirts. Should they sue? No.
Which is historical proof that when people want the Federal government to come to the rescue, the control freaks are happy to oblige.
They never explain the fine print though. That comes later.
Really. As in “Don’t trust anyone over 30”? 60’s radicals challenged authority. Not all challenges are good or right.
“”It’s being funded by outside sources,” Burrell said of the lawsuit.”
And that is different from the multitude of Liberal/Left/Commie suits funded by outside sources in what way?
Note the poor educrat thinks the socialism imposed by the NEA and the local teachers union is perfectly acceptable.
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