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Saturday, April 01, 2006
American Flag Banned in an American School  We read: "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. The principal said that the ban isn't just on American flags -- it's on all flags. Several students who walked out of class Friday said that they were upset that Mexican flags can be waved around but that American flags couldn't..." I cannot see why the national flag of ANY country should be banned from government buildings of the country concerned. In many countries displaying the national flag would be compulsory, in fact. And that there are no principles involved is shown by the fact that displaying the Mexican flag was perfectly accepted until the students started displaying the U.S. flag as well. It is clearly just a rejection of American patriotism while saying any other national loyalty is just fine. I wonder how many of the world's liberties were fought for under the Mexican flag? It seems to me that to dishonor the flag is to dishonor all those who died under it. (Hat tip to Slapstick Politics) (For more postings from me, see EDUCATION WATCH, GREENIE WATCH, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS WATCH, GUN WATCH, SOCIALIZED MEDICINE, AUSTRALIAN POLITICS and DISSECTING LEFTISM. My Home Page. Email me (John Ray) here.) Blogger News Network is advertiser-supported, and your visits to our advertisers help BNN to meet its expenses. Help keep us afloat! posted by JR at 6:35 PM |
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2 Comments:
It was as true a hundred years ago as it is today .
"In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
Theodore Roosevelt 1907
It seems funny that the flag ban only came about after old glory was waving in the wind.
This principal was not thinking right. However, the law states a principal has the right to do whatever he feels is justified to keep control on his campus. I am a longitme educator and please don't think I am siding with this guy. I AM NOT!!! He made a stupid move! He could have come up with a better way to deal with this problem.
You know he is going to feel heat about this one. People in the community are going to react to this. When they do, he will have more problems than he has now.
I have posted my views on this topic on my blog "Texas Truth" at http://texastruth.blogspot.com. Stop by and leave your views on this topic and others.
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