BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Students at Bloomington North High School are banned from wearing anything that depicts a Confederate flag on campus.
Leaders with the school district implemented the ban Wednesday night after students wore the flag draped around their shoulders like a cape. The students argued that they were exercising their First Amendment rights, but Principal Jeffry M. Henderson said the decision to wear the flag caused too much disruption given the flag’s place in U.S. history.
“Throughout the day, this issue has evolved into one that has created a substantial disruption to the educational environment,” Henderson wrote in an email. “As a result, students may no longer wear or display images of the Confederate flag on their clothing or any other personal item while at school or a school-sponsored event or function due to the disruption it has created.”
Students may have worn the Confederate flag in response to an LGBT event held at the school last week. A student who spoke to FOX59 said there’s been tension over a gay pride flag flown in the library and a teacher’s room.
“I want to either have both flags banned or both flags brought back, so it’s equality,” said Destiny Sherfield. “I just want equality for everyone and [to] just be able to express ourselves the way we would like to express [ourselves].”
Henderson said the flags caused several students to feel unsafe at school.
“Balancing the First Amendment rights of all individuals in a democracy can be a challenging task. Doing that with teenagers can prove to be even more challenging,” he wrote.
Principal institutes ban after students wear Confederate flag to school
Little communist *beep.* If those were my kids I would send them every day wearing confederate clothing or something with the confederate flag and tell the fags that run the school to piss off. Had the means I would just homeschool them and let them remember their years in public as a stark example of how communism and faggism works. Someone needs to take a belt to that fag principle.
YOU DRIVE, ILL SHOOT…………………
YOU ASSHOLES THAT KEEP INSISTING THAT WE LIVE IN A DAMN DEMOCRACY WILL BE THE FIRST TO DIE OF LEAD POISONING….
OMG, a Confederate Flag at school! Minds have been warped forever! “We can’t have that, the truth being spewed out in public like that, people might think they actually have rights!”
“What will you do without freedom” (William Wallace) I don’t know about how others feel, but, in my mind, we’re quite far from true freedom. You need to dispose rubbish? Better have your permit. Need to take a shit, better get your permit. Birth and Death certificates log you in and out and you’re property.
The dehumanizing of the species is well underway. Your number is 8675309.21 Like rats in a cage, we eat, shit, and breathe. Our cage is our own minds, manipulated beyond measure by unscrupulous bastards with a greed that can never be quenched. It’s unfortunate that there are those that exist with a superiority complex and think their shit don’t stink. That superiority complex leads to wars. We’re the most advanced, civilized monkeys on the planet, but you steal my bananas, we’re goin’ to war.
A Confederate Flag? They get their undies in a bundy over a Confederate Flag?
Yep, we must lie to our children and not tell them our true history. We must protect them from the psychological trauma of the truth! “Yes Jimmy, everything’s lollypops and rainbows!” “Here, take some more Ritalin and STFU!”
Pharmacy regulars, it seems most parents on some damned drug too. “Well, I gotta get the kids pills, I may as well get some for me, as long as I’m there.” Hey Dr. Feelgood, what’s up?
“Mother’s Little Helpers” told the story decades ago. Now, snoop in anyones “Medicine Chest” and you’ll discover an array of concoctions, herbals, stimulants, downers, mood enhancers, sleeping pills, wake up pills, stay awake pills, two in the morning, two at noon, two at bedtime, repeat every day until your dead.
You want to live forever? I don’t. I suspect bigger and better things await my arrival, at least, I hope so.
What a lost opportunity to discuss the Civil War and what Lincoln really thought about slavery and states’ rights. What a shame.
Principal Jeffry M. Henderson
Is Violating your Bill of Rights and should be banned
Why are some so afraid of a piece of colored cloth?
I guess it is the same reasoning in being so afraid of selected plants.
I guess it is the same reasoning in being so afraid of pieces of metal in arbitrary shapes.
It is all in the indoctrinated mind.
“Throughout the day, this issue has evolved into one that has created a substantial disruption to the educational environment,” Henderson wrote in an email.”
To the communist indoctrination, you mean.
“Henderson said the flags caused several students to feel unsafe at school.”
Snowflakes.
“Balancing the First Amendment rights of all individuals in a democracy can be a challenging task.”
First off, it’s NOT a democracy. Secondly, THERE IS NO ‘BALANCING’. Those rights are ABSOLUTE, SCUMBAG!!!