From FOX News:
Administrators at a California high school sent five students home on Wednesday after they refused to remove their American flag T-shirts and bandannas — garments the school officials deemed “incendiary” on Cinco de Mayo.
The five teens were sitting at a table outside Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, Calif., on Wednesday morning when Assistant Principal Miguel Rodriguez asked two of them to remove their American flag bandannas, the Morgan Hill Times reported. The boys told the newspaper they complied, but were asked to accompany Rodriguez to the principal’s office.
The five students [...] were then told they must turn their T-shirts inside-out or be sent home, though it would not be considered a suspension. Rodriguez told the students he did not want any fights to break out between Mexican-American students celebrating their heritage and those wearing American flags.
The article also said that the kids were told they could wear their American flag t-shirts and bandannas any other day of the year, just not on a day that Mexicans are wanting to celebrate their heritage. The fact that the principal is of Hispanic descent makes this story a little more amusing as it’s generally white liberals who insist on injecting political correctness into any known crevice of the universe. However, how can you set a different standards for what’s allowed one day than you do for 364 other days?
If someone wants to go to school on the Fourth of July wearing a Saudi Flag wrapped around them, that’s absolutely fine (though I probably wouldn’t let them near the AV room or the Chemistry lab.) If someone wants to celebrate the Fourth of July by singing Rule Brittania and waving a Union Jack around, that’s completely their choice as all. The premise of this decision made by the school is that there is something about Mexican values and American values that are mutually exclusive. If that premise existed, there would be 100+ Mexicans at that school learning about American history and American values on a day-to-day basis.
Being patriotic is not offensive, so get stuffed Miguel.