Posted on 04/06/2006 8:05:53 PM PDT by bulldozer
DENVER -- Several students at Shaw Heights Middle School have been disciplined for wearing shirts that depict the American flag, an act that is in direct violation of the public school's recent ban on all flags, depictions of flags, or flag colors on student clothing.
One student said he was suspended for wearing a DARE program shirt with a flag behind the logo. Another student, Katie Golgart, said she was suspended for wearing a Marine Corps shirt.
"I'm gonna going to school and wear another Marine shirt just to show that I support my brother and what he does," Haas said.
The students' parents are behind them 100 percent and are willing to fight the schools' ban, saying that it's a fight that they are going to win.
"I did let her (the principal) know that I would fight her on this because I knew I was right. And that's exactly what it is. We are right to wear our flag. We are right for my daughter to wear her United States Marine Corps shirt to support the Marines -- future, present and past," said Eric Golgart, who is the son of a U.S. Marine.
Elizabeth Haas, told reporters that she was told to turn her Marine Corps shirt inside out and when she did and then turned it back the right way, she was suspended. Haas, an 11-year-old sixth grader, said that she wears a USMC shirt every day to support her brother, who is in the Corps, and she wasn't aware of the ban until she was suspended.
All of the students who were suspended said they had a connection to the military -- either they have a family member now serving or someone in the family had once served.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedenverchannel.com ...
Re #19 -
"...Tenure an employee and then try to get rid of them."
Unless said Teacher decides to teach REAL AMERICAN History in stead of the Communist claptrap PC propiganda that the official curricullum demands, or refuses to "teach" such bilge -
And they'll be going down the road soon enough, you can be sure.
After which it's pretty unlikely that they will ever teach in a Public Schrool again.
They have ways to get around that "tenure" thing if they really want to - and the Teacher's Union is willing to look the other way, as I opine that they are rather inclined to do in such cases.
Re your #24 -
Sad to say, but at this point I'm afraid that it will not stop, short of a thorough manuring of the Old Tree of Liberty.
I'm frankly surprised that it has yet to happen.
The leaves they have already withered - and lo; they begin to fall.
"...I had to walk barefoot through 25 miles of snow and glass while hopping on one leg blindfolded to get to school."
UPHILL both ways while being chased by a pack of wolves, wasn't it? };^{)~
Never pi$$ of a Marine or his family. This school picked the wrong fight.
Basically, in my humble opinion, American is lost. It has lost its way. It is wondering in the wilderness. It is denying that the very laws, Constitution, and frame work for which it was founded is wrong, and needs to be destroyed. Where the founders and the people who died for the republic to be formed are vilified. Don't you just love it? /sarcasm fully on and hate for those who hate America is in overdrive.
Re your 31 -
"Why spend another penny on public schools? "
Well, for one thing, if we don't, they'll send men with guns to take away all of our stuff and drag us off to prison.
And if we don't cooperate whith that idea, they'll send LOTS of men with LOTS of guns, and kill us.
Not a problem.
Remember Randy Weaver and his Family?
Then the Department of "Child Protective Services" will seize your children (assuming they survive the results of your resistance - Weaver's Wife didn't, did she?) and place them in "Foster Care"... or sell them into slavery, which is probably even more profitable. Most of the time the Families never know what becomes of them.
In Maine, at least (We've heard that other States are worse) the kids will probably be chemically lobotomized so that they will be more compliant in skhrool and cause no furthur "difficulty".
Up here, Parents who are lucky enough to ever see their children again after the state kidnaps them (sometimes without any legal grounds) lament that they are "Never the same again".
http://www.asmainegoes.com/loganstruth_intro.htm
http://www.asmainegoes.com/CommonSense2m.pdf
And yes; Zombies are pretty compliant, it seems.
Any other questions today?
Re #45 -
"Democrat Party in the pockets of the greedy teachers unions,..."
Alas; I'm afraid that BOTH parties are now firmly in the grip of the dreaded NEA.
They might as well move the NEA into the White House and put W and Laura out back in the dog house.
There's only one way that the Teacher's Union will be broken - and in the unlikely event that it ever happens, it ain't gonna be pretty.
Re #57 -
Some folks jest needs a good (*deleted to avoid banning*), don't they?
Re #60 -
Well YEE-Hah, Baybee! };^{)~
I dropped her a little note:
I am shocked that you would forbid clothing bearing the American flag and symbols of our military institutions in a public school. If students cannot respectfully wear symbols of the very nation and the military that protects these freedoms, what freedom is left? Supporting our country and our military is a patriotic statement, not a political one.
My son died while performing his duty in Iraq. When he joined, he took an oath that read, in part, “I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same.” He wrote of these domestic enemies, “…many are trying to use their positions to reshape the world the way they think it should be, not taking into account any consequence of their actions.” It is not up to you to reshape the student’s world the way you see it.
At least you have given these students an opportunity to stand up and fight a domestic enemy. That is a very worthwhile lesson, indeed.
Semper Fidelis,
Richard Linn
Proud Father of
USMC Lance Cpl. Karl R. Linn
KIA 1/26/2005 Haqlaniyah, Iraq
Midlothian, Virginia
Sic Semper Tyrannis
I'm afraid what we're seeing in CO, would have broken his heart. I know it does mine - in addition to royally P*issing me off.
That happens a lot. :>)
Thanks for the info.
Of course that was when I was in Kindergarten, after that it got harder.
Richard, our family grieves your horrific loss. Your son died for a noble cause, and we are eternally grateful to him.
Funny, I went to Shaw Heights when it was first built, 1959, IIRC. Sixth grade. God, that a long time ago. Times certainly have gotten strange. There were no illegals anywhere in that area, just middle class white folk.
Forgot to say BINGO!
I bet they would say nothing over a Soviet or Chinese flag, or Saddam's Iraq flag.
What goes around,comes around.
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