Students Sent Home for Wearing U.S. Flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo

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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/05/06/california-students-sent-home-wearing-flags-cinco-mayo/

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Re: Students Sent Home for Wearing U.S. Flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo

I know of plenty of schools that don’t allow bandanas of any kind to be worn, but disallowing an American flag T-shirt in an American public school is ridiculous and offensive.

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Re: Students Sent Home for Wearing U.S. Flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo

I guess the Assistant Principal was having a bad day.

The school board wasn’t even behind him, according to the article. He’ll get yelled at, appologize, and nothing else will come of it, hopefully.

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Re: Students Sent Home for Wearing U.S. Flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo

Ok…what the fuck. So…we celebrate Cinco De Mayo, a non-mexican holiday and we celebrate it on the -wrong- day no less; it’s a holiday that does not belong to us even the slightest, and…we get in trouble for not celebrating it their way or wearing something they deem offensive to a holiday they know nothing about….

Yeah, I can totally see that. Makes perfect sense to me.

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http://www.vivacincodemayo.org/history.htm

The 5th of May is not Mexican Independence Day, but it should be! And Cinco de Mayo is not an American holiday, but it should be. Mexico declared its independence from mother Spain on midnight, the 15th of September, 1810. And it took 11 years before the first Spanish soldiers were told and forced to leave Mexico.

While the translation of the holiday name is 5th of May, the meaning and origin is a different day.

And as for “Non-mexican.” I actually mispoke, typing too fast without reading. I meant “Non-American.” Sorry.

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Re: Students Sent Home for Wearing U.S. Flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo

Meh, okay.