Arizona School Bans American Flag Shirts for Cinco de Mayo for Student Safety

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I read through a number of articles before saying something. This article conveniently leaves out the fact that White students and Mexican students don't necessarily get along at this school. There have been problems, especially on Cinco de Mayo.

To me, the white students don't wear the shirt because they're patriotic, but because they are flat out racist. Cinco de Mayo marks a battle between Mexico and France, which has nothing to do with America in the first place. To me, it's the equivalent of wearing a swastika during Passover.

All that being said, this shouldn't have even been brought into the court. It's a ridiculous ruling on a ridiculous problem. People do have the right to wear what they want to wear, and I respect that. What I don't respect is you do this, implying that you are a higher human being than another because of your race/skin color/etc. I have no problem with the flag. I have a problem with people using it as something to mask their racism.

And for fun, I wonder how many people upset about this are also upset that they are no longer allowed to discriminate against gays...

 

Arionza is racist, you'll find it in every state. If I understand correctly, they're making it so neither groups wear they're nations colors? Or are they making it to were kids can wear the flag and latinos can't?

And no, I don't think they're upset over this. Nor do I think this has anything to the discrimination law bs.

 

Racism is everywhere, sadly...

If you really want to see how bad it gets, look into the 1960's and the African Americans going to an all white school in the South for the first time. The National Guard could barely stop the angry mob outside of the school, though the kids were okay inside until the guard left.

I can see why there could be conflict. I heard a lot of the border states (I don't live near Mexico) has problems with illegal immigration and a lot of the blame of unemployment goes to the illegal immigrants getting the jobs. Don't quote me on that, I just heard it. With that, there's a lot of hostility, especially with the economy the way it is. It easily goes to the children and incites anger and racism when the parents are angry about it. It might be why there's such a huge problem in the school. Should the courts fix it? No, that's up to the school to do so.

 

This is all true. I'm not ractis so don't get me wrong here. I've seen it happen, immigrants taking other peoples jobs. I agree on what you're beating about schhops, but its also the families fault for letting their kids witness the hatred. Parents have a role in I also.

 

Agreed... And I'm not racist either. Just to make it clear... =3

I just see it a lot in history, sadly... Maine doesn't have a problem with racism, as far as I can tell. Well, we are against tourists, I don't know if that counts. :P But yeah, it's up to the parents to not show their anger and frustration on not having a job around their kids, and especially blame a race.

 

The more freedom you' re allowed to keep the better, obviously, but if you' ve proven time and time again that you can' t be trusted with it then it makes all the sense in the world to step in.

In my country we don' t have problems with students wearing the flag (nobody does that anyway), but we did ban burqas and veils in public schools. Some people complained that it was just a way to target muslims, so we banned religious symbols period.

I' m sure what does or doesn' t constitute a reasonable outfit would make a great philosophic topic, but at the end of the day the school board has to be pragmatic about it. Students come to school to learn and teachers are supposed to be grabbing their attention. Getting rid of anything that gets in the way of that is fine in my book.