Students Who Want To Fly American Flags Walk Out

[Torog]

Students Who Want To Fly American Flags Walk Out

The Denver Channel ^ | 3/31/06 | Staff



More than two dozen students walked out of Skyline High School Friday morning to protest what they say is a ban that doesn't allow the American flag to be flown on school grounds.

Several students said that they were upset that Mexican flags can be waved around but that American flags couldn't. They said that school officials confiscated their American flags because it has become inflammatory because of recent immigration issues.

"When the immigration laws came out we noticed that a lot of Hispanics were waving Mexican flags and what we were thinking to ourselves is like, isn't the immigration law to stay in the country? You want to stay in America, correct? So I said, for every Mexican flag, you should have an American flag right next to it. So a few people went out and started waving American flags, and that's where everything bridged out," said Skyline student R.J. Fogal. "That's when they started telling us that we can't wave American flags, there's going to be no flags today, or everyone is going to be suspended -- whoever carries a flag."

"What we want to know is since when was it against the rules to have an American flag on a car, in a car, in your hands in a school?" said student William Cassity.

Skyline principal Tom Stumpf said that the school enacted a ban this week that prohibits students to display, wear or fly any flag -- American or Mexican.

"The (policy) evolved because the flags were being used, not as a symbol of cultural heritage, but the flags were being used as symbols of bigotry, a symbol of hostility. They were being used to inflame different groups and we're simply not going to tolerate that at Skyline High School," Stumpf said.

"My paramount obligation, my solemn obligation at Skyline High School, is to provide a safe and secure environment and with the flags being used as a catalyst to stir up the students, to stir up the environment, I cannot condone that ... One flag was thrown into the face of another group and another flag was being brandished in front of another group and it was done to raise emotions, and we don't want that. We want respect -- that's our main goal at Skyline High School," he said.

The school has a diverse population and some students say there have been tensions between different ethnic groups because of the national immigration debate.

"I think our whole society is on different sides of the immigration issue and I can't control that. All I'm asking from our students is respect -- respect for one another, treating each other as they themselves want to be treated, treating each other decently, civilly," Stumpf said.

He said the students have a right to rally and those who walked out of class on Friday would not be punished.

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[Torog]

Howdy Y'all,

This story just goes to show just how crazy pc'ism has become,I also read another story,where a student was charged with arson,for burning a mexican flag,that had been raised over the American flag,which had been turned upside-down,at the student's school in Apache Junction,Arizona.

United States flag code says that schools must display the American flag,and this principal should be ashamed and he should be fired.

Have a good one ...

[Miss Green]

Why not try solve the problem or at least come to some agreement obiviously there is some tension between the mexicans and the americans and I don't think they will put up the flag until they at least can try and come up with some sort of plan or solution. I know this may sound easier than doing it but something needs to be sorted out.:thumbsup:

[Psycho4Bud]

This is bullshit! In a public school, in the U.S.A. and can't fly the flag? Another "politically correct" action thats geared at appeasing the minority group.

[Bong30]

PCism will be our death...........

I live in denver, WTF is this world coming too.

[Bong30]

Why not try solve the problem or at least come to some agreement obiviously there is some tension between the mexicans and the americans and I don't think they will put up the flag until they at least can try and come up with some sort of plan or solution. I know this may sound easier than doing it but something needs to be sorted out.:thumbsup:

Why donâ??t they fix Mexico? Missy its called assimilation......if they would do it we wouldnâ??t have this problem. They donâ??t want the USA they want Mexico up here.

Just like savage say...Language, boarder, and culture.

Tom Tancredo for president

[Great Spirit]

Thank god they don't let the Imperialist Amerikan flag fly! Fly Canadian!

[pabloescobar209]

The reality of those rallies is that it is just a bunch of illegals, and some people who are citizens(morons) that for some reason think this is good for security, and the economy... Mexico's second biggest income(1st is oil, and 3rd is Tourist) is Mexicans sending money back from the US to there famlies in Mexico. people say omg the prices of everything will skyrocket( yes this is true but the longer you ignore the problem, the lower wages go the more illegals do the work and the less the end price rises, and the bigger the jump is when the problem is fixed.) the reality is that none of these compaies could operate in the US with citizens working in the fields for them... We are basically outsourcing jobs in our own country... People say Americans have lost their edge and dont work hard, what do you expect when you are raised in this society (just watch tv for 20 minutes, and ask why people here are lazy) we have gadgets for our gadgets, and gadgets to control the gadgets that control the gadgets. The fact is that if the laws that are on the books were ever inforced the way Bush tells you they are.. we wouldnt have a problem... Them you have prime minister Fox telling the US that he realizes the problem, and is working hard to solve it... wink wink

[C4nn4Bliss]

we need to stop letting america be the melting pot. I hope they make it a felony and boot these mexicans who think this is there home, its more like they are hitching a ride. You know when i worked construction if we were short on workers there was a street where the mexicans hung out and wed load the bed of truck(s) up and pay them in cash at the end of the day. I say root and boot them out, Im tired of seein mexicans act righteous in a country that isnt there own. Fuck em

[pabloescobar209]

we need to stop letting america be the melting pot. I hope they make it a felony and boot these mexicans who think this is there home, its more like they are hitching a ride. You know when i worked construction if we were short on workers there was a street where the mexicans hung out and wed load the bed of truck(s) up and pay them in cash at the end of the day. I say root and boot them out, Im tired of seein mexicans act righteous in a country that isnt there own. Fuck em

It's not there fault... It's ours, you can't blame them for jumping a fence to find work... becasue thats what they come here to do... illegals dont contribute much to crime for fear of deportation... You can blame law enforcement and lack of funding/caring for the last hundred years... now heres a serious problem because us companies are able/ ahve been able to keep wages the same or lower than ever, meaning it doenst force them to adapt new technology, and practices that other comapies do... so the only way to stay in business revolves around having people that make below minimun wage do the majority of the work... but allowing that to happen just amplifies the problem.