OKAY I AM FED UP, UP PAST MY EYEBROWS AND I DONT APOLOGIZE FOR ANY OF THE COMMENTS I AM A BOUT TO MAKE!!!!! To begin with I am sick and tired of how on face book people click and share crap that is untrue or misleading just because they LIKE the headline but never to botherto check beyond it to see if there is any truth to what it is. FOR INSTANCE: on my feed today I was greeted by SEVERAL headlines that federal courts has ruled the American Flag can be banned in schools. When I tried to click on that link I would have to give them approval to all of my info on face book to read that article. Immediately my warning antenna went off. So I simply researched by putting into google search Federal court ruling on banning the American Flag in public schools. What came up were articles after articles with the same headline, except with addition words that completely changes the facts of what the face book headlines were implying. Misleading a person to believe that public schools can choose to disallow the American Flags in schools In this day and time too many people are simple reading headlines and make judgments about people, laws and politics without any idea if there is any truth to them or not. I am all for the freedom of speech and posting what you believe but PLEASE DONT POST HALF TRUTHS OR MISLEADING HEADLINES such as this morning and perpetuate misleading information. If you dont have time or feel incline to research information before you pass it on then perhaps you should reconsider click that share button. THE FOLLOWING IS WHAT THE FEDERAL COURTS RULED ON: Please read it so you can understand what you are truly posting and passing on. And if you can find anywhere where the courts did actually did rule that schools can ban the American Flag please dont hesitate to inform me and send me the link or whatever to that information and i will apologize to you and write a retraction for all my face book friends and the world to see COURT RULE SCHOOL CAN BAN AMERICAN FLAG SHIRTS A federal court ruled Thursday that a northern California high school did not violate the constitutional rights of its students when school officials made them turn their American flag T-shirts inside out on Cinco de Mayo or be sent home due to fears of racial violence. The three-judge panel unanimously decided the officials’ need to protect the safety of their students outweighed the students’ freedom of expression rights. Administrators at Live Oak High School, in the San Jose suburb of Morgan Hill, feared the American-flag shirts would enflame Latino students celebrating the Mexican holiday, and ordered the students to either turn the shirts inside out or go home for the day. The school had a history of problems between white and Latino students on that day, and also had a documented history of violence between gang members and between racial groups. The court said these past problems gave school officials sufficient and justifiable reasons for their actions and that schools have wide latitude in curbing certain civil rights to ensure campus safety. Our role is not to second-guess the decision to have a Cinco de Mayo celebration or the precautions put in place to avoid violence, Judge M. Margaret McKeown wrote for the panel. The past events made it reasonable for school officials to proceed as though the threat of a potentially violent disturbance was real, she wrote. The San Jose Mercury News reports the parents of the students represented in the lawsuit claim their children’s First Amendment rights were violated. The Ann Arbor, Mich.-based American Freedom Law Center, a politically conservative legal aid foundation, and other similar organizations took up the students case and sued the high school and the school district. This is the United States of America, the mother of one of the students Kendall Jones told the San Jose Mercury News. The idea that its offensive to wear patriotic clothing ... regardless of what day it is, is unconscionable to me. The parents have said in previous interviews with several publications that their children were only trying to be patriotic, not start a fight with Latino students. William Becker, one of the lawyers representing the students, said he plans to ask a special 11-judge panel of the appeals court to rehear the case. Becker said he and the parents of the children are prepared to take the fight all the way to the Supreme Court.
Posted on: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 12:10:37 +0000
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