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School Forces Kid to take down US Flag on Veteran's Day (Mexicans censoring Americans, again)
KSBW ^ | 11/11/10 | KSBW

Posted on 11/11/2010 11:23:45 PM PST by radpolis

A Stanislaus County school is forcing a student to take an American flag off of his bike.

Thirteen-year-old Cody Alicea put the flag there as a show of support for the veterans in his family.

But officials at Denair Middle School told him he couldn't fly it. He said he was told some students had complained.

So now the eighth-grader folds up the flag and puts it in his backpack while he is in class.

His father, Robert Kisner, said his son should not have to put the flag away.

"He's got that flag on his bike because he's proud of where he comes from," Kisner said.

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"Our Hispanic, you know, kids will, you know, bring their Mexican flags and they'll display it, and then of course the kids would do the American flag situation, and it does cause kind of a racial tension which we don't really want," Parraz said. "We want them to appreciate the cultures."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: bhoschools; california; deptofeducation; mexico; military; obama; palin; usflag
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To: fullchroma
The school superintendent is incoherent, his English is substandard and he’s ignorant of the First Amendment. How’d he get the job?!

Affirmative Action!

41 posted on 11/12/2010 12:23:15 AM PST by JohnG45
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To: 240B
Such fools. Forgive them father, for they know not what they do.

Their sponsors know exactly what they're doing.

42 posted on 11/12/2010 12:23:32 AM PST by Carry_Okie (Grovelnator Schwarzenkaiser, fashionable fascism one charade at a time.)
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To: BradyLS
I typed that recently. Press 2 for English.
43 posted on 11/12/2010 12:25:18 AM PST by allmost
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To: radpolis

Ohhhhhhh they are going to catch coast to coast non stop conservative/patriot HELL, NOW! over this.


44 posted on 11/12/2010 12:25:23 AM PST by AmericanInTokyo (Job 1: Military ballots investigation; Job 2: Redistricting for GOP; Job 3: I.D. needed at polls)
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To: thecodont
If the U.S. flag is being flown on the school grounds, I don’t see why the students would have a problem with a student at the school displaying the same flag on his bike or backpack.

Because they want to fly the flag of their own loyalties.

Let's send them there. Let Mexico pay for their education...or they can put their flags of other nations away.

45 posted on 11/12/2010 12:25:23 AM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: ZULU
This [anti-assimilation and disloyalty to America] is not a trait of all Hispanic Americans anymore than all German Americans or Italian Americans supported the Axis in WW2.

My point was focused specifically on Mexicans, a subset of the larger Hispanic ethnic category. I'll hasten to agree that many Hispanics (Marco Rubio comes immediately to mind) are outstanding citizens, especially the Cuban exiles in greater Miami.

I think that Mexicans may present a different case. Because the mother country is in such close proximity and due to the huge surge of Mexicans (legal and otherwise) into our country, they have been able to main close ties with their land of origin.

Unlike the Germans and Italians of prior generations (who came from afar), assimilation just doesn't seem to be happening with Mexicans. And there's much to prevent it, with services like Telemundo, Univision, Estrella, Telefutra as well as signs in Spanish that the previous wave of European immigrants didn't have.

Living here in Texas (a so-called minority-majority state), it's easy to see evidence to confirm my thoughts that a large segment of the Mexican population living here remains loyal to the mother country. I pass through several Mexican areas while driving to work. Yesterday, Veterans Day, I saw the Mexican tri-color flying outside of businesses and homes and not Old Glory. Sure, that's an anecdotal snapshot, but it's what I saw.

46 posted on 11/12/2010 12:27:42 AM PST by re_nortex (DP...that's what I like about Texas...)
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To: thecodont
I open PDF’s when I want to. No innate reader here. Nitro installs and unininstalls adequately.
47 posted on 11/12/2010 12:28:48 AM PST by allmost
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To: gunsequalfreedom
Since the Superintendent of the district is speaking on this, here's the district info:

Denair Unified School District
Office Hours: 7:30-4:00
Office (209) 632-7514
x1202 - Superintendent, Human Resource Department (Ed Parraz, Superintendent / Jody Jorge)
Fax (209) 632-9194

http://dusd.k12.ca.us/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=21&Itemid=339

48 posted on 11/12/2010 12:29:43 AM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: Cobra64

That is a very nice potted plant in the foreground.


49 posted on 11/12/2010 12:32:18 AM PST by allmost
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To: thecodont
Note that the Denair Unified School District calendar does have Veterans Day: http://dusd.k12.ca.us/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=38&Itemid=325
50 posted on 11/12/2010 12:33:40 AM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: thecodont
Note that the Denair Unified School District calendar does have Veterans Day: http://dusd.k12.ca.us/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=38&Itemid=325
51 posted on 11/12/2010 12:34:05 AM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: allmost
That is a very nice potted plant in the foreground.

You mean the potted plant wearing the blue shirt? Right? :-)

52 posted on 11/12/2010 12:34:16 AM PST by re_nortex (DP...that's what I like about Texas...)
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To: thecodont
That calendar you posted is just listing the professional development days. The actual District Calendar itself has Veterans Day on it: http://www.californiak12.org/calendar_month.aspx?id=a7bc79ee-6f69-44f0-b4b8-08f3b27efe53
53 posted on 11/12/2010 12:37:01 AM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: re_nortex

You disrespect the beautiful flowering plant. Near center on the pic. I just hope those bastards didn’t kill it out of convenience.


54 posted on 11/12/2010 12:37:20 AM PST by allmost
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To: Gondring
Note that the Denair Unified School District calendar does have Veterans Day

A small matter of semantics in this query...I note the term Unified in the school district name. Is that common usage in California?

FWIW, here in Texas, nearly every school district uses a name such as Katy Independent School District.

Not implying that one nomenclature (or state) is better than the other, of course... :-)

55 posted on 11/12/2010 12:39:47 AM PST by re_nortex (DP...that's what I like about Texas...)
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To: radpolis

Jorge Boosh’s fault.


56 posted on 11/12/2010 12:41:06 AM PST by mas cerveza por favor
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To: allmost
Bizzarro World?
57 posted on 11/12/2010 12:46:54 AM PST by allmost
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To: allmost

Huh?


58 posted on 11/12/2010 12:48:38 AM PST by Cobra64
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To: radpolis

Question number one.....
Where the hell is the local VFW????


59 posted on 11/12/2010 12:49:03 AM PST by OL Hickory (Jesus and the American soldier-1 died for your soul/1 died for your freedom)
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To: Cobra64
Was going to respond to posts #55 and 56. I stopped. That aint me. I commented to myself.
60 posted on 11/12/2010 12:53:47 AM PST by allmost
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