Via NBC News San Francisco Bay Area
On any other day at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, Daniel Galli and four of his friends would not even be noticed for wearing T-Shirts with an American Flag.
Galli and his friends were seated during a brunch break when the Vice Principal asked the students to remove American flag bandannas from their heads and turn their T-Shirts inside out because of Cinco-de-Mayo.
When the students refused they were instructed to go to the Principal’s Office and were sent home because school administrators determined that their T-Shirts were “incendiary” that would lead to fights on campus.
The decision by the Bay Area school administrators to send students home for displaying an American flag is absurd and violates the students constitutional rights.
In 1969 the U.S. Supreme Court said that students speech could be regulated by school administrators if the challenged speech “materially disrupts classwork or involves substantial disorder or invasion of the rights of others.” Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 393 US 503
In reaching the decision the Court reasoned that school administrators could not prohibit student speech on the “undifferentiated fear or apprehension of disturbance.” Id 508
School Administrators striving to be politically correct, chose to step on the Constitutional rights of others. In this case the San Francisco Bay Area Public School made a decision to censor a patriotic message of Galli and his friends on Wednesday, while at the same time permitting Hispanic students to freely express themselves sporting red, white and green colors on themselves, some had their faces painted with the Mexican flag. Freshman Laura Ponce, wore a Mexican flag over her shoulder.
Politically Correctness running amok. Morgan Hill Unified School District has subsequently released a statement that they do not agree with how school administrators handled the situation and the boys would not be suspended.
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