I caught this bit of trash on Tuesday, but was not going to mention it due to the sanctity of the day
On the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, students at one high school were not allowed to wear clothes with an American flag.
Under a new school rule, students at Hobbton High School are not allowed to wear items with flags, from any country, including the United States.
Gayle Langston said her daughter, Jessica, was told to remove her Stars and Stripes t-shirt.
"Today she wanted to wear her shirt, and I had to tell her no,†said Langston. “She didn’t like it at all because I knew it would get her in trouble. Of all days, 9/11, she could not wear her American Flag shirt.â€
The superintendent of schools in Sampson County calls the situation unfortunate, but says educators didn’t want to be forced to pick and choose which flags should be permissible.
Political correctness gone so far astray as to reality being competely out of sight. Can we question the patriotism of the Far Left now? We have to fight not only against radical jihadi’s, but against our own insane, America hating people.
The poll on NBC 17 shows that 69% of the respondents think an exception should be made for the American Flag. The question is "Should schools be allowed to ban clothes that display flags?" 24% say "no."
Jay at Stop The ACLU has more.
Michelle M writes, in reference to the superintendent and the educators
They didn’t, in other words, want to act like grown-ups and make responsible judgments about acceptable displays of patriotism.
Now, if it was a Che shirt, or had a Communist logo, I bet it would have been acceptable. As a resident of North Carolina, I am embarrassed.
Update: Was out on ye olde golfe course, and caught two emails from Jay at Stop The ACLU. First, he mentioned that the ACLU is telling the school to rescind its no flag apparel policy.
Then, that the school has rescinded its policy.
Of course, let us not forget that a government school apparently forgot which country it was in and banned the American Flag on September 11.
