this is a slippery slope, isn't it?

oh and school dress code....hmmm...

:lol:

I clicked the link, and got something about a couple planning to shoot up a school. Am I missing something?

ok, trying to keep this in the realm of school policy only. I think students should only be limited to what they wear if it somehow disrupts education. Now the school did this to prevent students from starting some sort of racial tension, but if someone starts racial tension over an american flag, the very flag of the country we live in, then the person who is offended is in the wrong, not the one wearing the flag. Cinco De Mayo may be a mexican holiday, but if we are celebrating it in america, its also an american holiday and like all holidays should be about bringing people together, not driving them apart, so all in all, the students did nothing wrong.

There's no point celebrating Cinco de Mayo anyway. It has nothing to do with US history. It's like celebrating the Battle of Hastings, or the Punic Wars, or some other country's old-time military victory. Whoop de doo. There's plenty of other US military victories that we don't celebrate, either. Can't have holidays all the time. And Cinco de Mayo isn't even heavily celebrated in Mexico (according to wikipedia).

I think the school was wrong to send the kids home. Nothing wrong with celebrating your heritage - either as a Latino or as a US citizen. Would they have gotten thrown out if they wore german or english flags? Or whatever their ancestral ethnicity is.

We do not bow to kings and queens and we do not bow down to any other country's flag. That's what the founding fathers were about.

Thank you.

Its such a [censored] holiday I don't know why we celebrate it

But we have also given our government's word, for what it's worth, to respect the traditions of the conquered peoples of the Southwest. This includes refraining from heaping scorn on their holidays. It also includes educating our citizens in those traditions, so that we may give them due respect.

The irony of it all is that Cinco de Mayo, as Wyatt so eloquently put it, is a [censored] holiday. It's of no importance in Mexico and mainly a pretext for drunkenness in the US. It was certainly not worth this squabble.

Why is it celebrated at all? It seems to be an American holiday celebrating the defeat of the U.S.'s oldest ally by one of the U.S.'s old enemies. That doesn't make any sense to me.

The US has long been sensitive about European meddling in the Americas; see the Monroe Doctrine, of which the French invasion of Mexico was a flagrant violation. The main reason this did not lead to war with France is that the US was engaged at the time in the Civil War.

People really like pretexts for drunkenness.

Well at least you guys have an official national anthem.

Well, from my perspective, it seems like these kids were trying to flag-troll. Seriously, who would do that knowing full well what the backlash would be if it wasn't on purpose? I guess the truth will be revealed eventually.

Me too. Happy Ocho de Mayo!

At first Ithought this was all just some school admin overreacting, I mean no one really gets upset because you wear an American flag t-shirt. But then I saw that 200 students skipped class in protest, wow, they must really be upset, because convincing 200 high school sctudents to ditch class for a day is near impossible with out a really good reason.

Not on Senior Skip Day

Not due to a cause like the one in Morgan Hill, but we just had one: a 3-day teachers' strike. 90% of the district high school students (about 15,500 out of 17,200) called in sick or just plain didn't show; some of them joined teachers on the picket lines or held their own demonstrations.

Hope they sue the school, as a warning to other schools about this sort of despicable censorship. Sickening.

Wait wait wait wait wait - aren't you from the UK? :huh:

Or on any average day at my high school.

seriously, it wouldn't be difficult to persuade me to skip school a day, I mean, I actually had a good time in high school...but I won't say no to a day off.

That's over the line. Posts deleted and thread closed.

Deliberately accusing any ethnic group of doing something intentionally offensive is political flamebait. If the members of these forums cannot refrain from same, the moderators will have to close threads like this on sight rather than give them a chance to run.