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For the second question…does it bother anyone that young Hispanic students were evidently complaining about and maybe harassing this boy who was innocently just displaying the flag of his country?

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It's. 13-year-olds. Manipulating. A. Dumb. Playground. Supervisor.

Nothing more, nothing less. If Supervisor Dipshit had told both groups of students, "Relax, they aren't hurting anything," nothing would have happened.

NONE of this has to do AT ALL with school curriculum issues, which may in fact be packed with good ideas, including yours. We don't know.

I'd suggest replacing the school board with more insightful candidates, but that's another matter.

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This past Halloween two K-5 school Principles in Rockville MD (where I live) took it upon themselves to replace "Halloween Party Day" with "Celebrate Fall Day" because the parents of 5-10 students (out of 350 +/-) at each school had expressed cultural and/or religeous objections to same. Rockville is a sanctuary city.

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Do I think there could be racial tensions in America?

Well, gosh...

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Sure. And maybe they were carrying knives, and both belong to families with criminal ties, and we narrowly averted a school massacre and the start of a gang war.

Have fun speculating. Trouble is, you can come up with anything with a bar set so low.

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For the second question…does it bother anyone that young Hispanic students were evidently complaining about and maybe harassing this boy who was innocently just displaying the flag of his country?

I mean we can gloss over and conveniently forget this part of the story and not face up to the implications.

This young man was the one being sanctioned when those complaining and harassing should have been. If not sanctioned then a parents meeting would have been appropriate to discuss the situation.

I cannot understand how the innocent displaying of the flag of our country could be considered the cause for racial tension, at least on the part of the boy displaying it. I do believe the racial tension involved was on the part of those complaining and they should have been the ones disciplined.

This is the United States and its flag should be displayed with pride.

Butch

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For the second question…does it bother anyone that young Hispanic students were evidently complaining about and maybe harassing this boy who was innocently just displaying the flag of his country?

I mean we can gloss over and conveniently forget this part of the story and not face up to the implications.

This young man was the one being sanctioned when those complaining and harassing should have been. If not sanctioned then a parents meeting would have been appropriate to discuss the situation.

I cannot understand how the innocent displaying of the flag of our country could be considered the cause for racial tension, at least on the part of the boy displaying it. I do believe the racial tension involved was on the part of those complaining and they should have been the ones disciplined.

This is the United States and its flag should be displayed with pride.

Butch

KD, I agree. "When in Rome do as the Romans."
WTF is wrong with people in Calif? They get upset over flying the American flag but not the ratbag Mexican flag?
The schoolboard should be looking at how many illegal aliens are in their schools and ejecting them.
When Calif. goes bankrupt they have no right to ask for federal funds and expect the rest of us to bail them out when they're spending $12-$15 Billion a year on illegal aliens.


P.S. Fuck 'em!

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For the second question…does it bother anyone that young Hispanic students were evidently complaining about and maybe harassing this boy who was innocently just displaying the flag of his country?

I mean we can gloss over and conveniently forget this part of the story and not face up to the implications.

This young man was the one being sanctioned when those complaining and harassing should have been. If not sanctioned then a parents meeting would have been appropriate to discuss the situation.

I cannot understand how the innocent displaying of the flag of our country could be considered the cause for racial tension, at least on the part of the boy displaying it. I do believe the racial tension involved was on the part of those complaining and they should have been the ones disciplined.

This is the United States and its flag should be displayed with pride.

Butch

KD, I agree. "When in Rome do as the Romans."
WTF is wrong with people in Calif? They get upset over flying the American flag but not the ratbag Mexican flag?
The schoolboard should be looking at how many illegal aliens are in their schools and ejecting them.
When Calif. goes bankrupt they have no right to ask for federal funds and expect the rest of us to bail them out when they're spending $12-$15 Billion a year on illegal aliens.


P.S. Fuck 'em!

Ok, say a Mexican-American kid wants to fly the Mexican flag on Cinco de Mayo. He is told you can't do that. November rolls around and another kid is flying the US flag. The first kid is annoyed that they can't show cultural pride, so why should the second kid be able to? They complain about the unfairness of it, the school authorities smell "lawsuit" and tell kid #2 to take down his flag, too. This was badly handled both when the first kid was told to take down his flag, and all the way around.