On May fifth in a California public school many Mexican Americans wore shirts with depictions of Mexican flags to celebrate the Mexican holiday “Cinco De Mayo”. A hand full of students also wore shirts with depictions of the American flag. The asst. principal of the school fearing that a violent confrontation could occur, ordered those students with the American flags to either change their shirts or turn them inside out, or face being sent home. He did not, however, give the same order to those who wore Mexican flags. If he believed that the confrontation would be initiated by those wearing the American flags what difference would it have made if they changed their shirts? He must have reasoned that the violent intentions existed in the minds of the Mexican students. Is it possible that the school never bothered to teach the students, especially those here by way of immigration, that in The United States of America the right of free expression is protected by the constitution? If it is a policy of that school to disallow freedom of expression, why was it not applied equally to ALL students? It seems the principal was concerned with protecting the “human rights” of the immigrant students while sacrificing equal rights for all of the students.
Donald Darling
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That is incredible. It seems unconstitutional to force a student to remove a shirt because it had the American flag.
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