SCHOOL ORDERS STUDENT TO REMOVE “OFFENSIVE” US FLAG FROM TRUCK

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senior Peyton Robinson was ordered to remove two flags by an administrator at York Comprehensive High School Wednesday. Liberalism is a mental disease!» Video: School Orders Student To Remove ?Offensive? US Flag From Truck Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!

 

[Drail]

Come and take it. As Veteran I am outraged when I see stories like this.

 

[TaunTaun]

School: "It's a distraction!"
Student: "It's been there all year..."
School: "It's a safety issue!"
Police: "Nope, they're good!"
School: "We'll illegally modify your truck and remove it, and then denigrate the flag by letting it touch the ground!"
Student:" I have replacement bolts, they're going back up!"
School: "Don't you dare defy us!"
Student: "Yeah, me and a few friends just got done upgrading our wheels...."

 

[BigBoxaJunk]

I remember driving on the highway soon after 911 and found myself behind a pickup with a wooden flagpole, the kind meant to hang on the side of your house, with a flag about two and a half by about four feet. The wooden pole was held in the corner of the truck bed with ropes and duct tape, and as he drove, the pole was bending and the flag was rippling wildly.

I got out from behind him as soon as I could, because that flag looked like it was gonna fly out of that truck and cause an accident. I figured at the time that he was not likely to be stopped by a police officer and cited for the obvious safety hazard, given the mood of the country at that time.

I would want to know that the flag that this kid had on his truck was in compliance with safety rules before I got myself worked up about it.

 

[chipbennett]

I would want to know that the flag that this kid had on his truck was in compliance with safety rules before I got myself worked up about it.

Why are highway safety issues any concern of the school administration?

 

[BigBoxaJunk]

Why are highway safety issues any concern of the school administration?

I could easily see a school having a policy that prohibits a student from driving a vehicle to school that is not "street legal".

 

[chipbennett]

I could easily see a school having a policy that prohibits a student from driving a vehicle to school that is not "street legal".

Sure, but that's a different matter. I would assume that *most* school districts have a policy requiring student vehicles to be legal. But that has nothing to do with a flag.

 

[Que]

Thank you for your concern, but I will leave them in place.

 

[JettaKnight]

I remember driving on the highway soon after 911 and found myself behind a pickup with a wooden flagpole, the kind meant to hang on the side of your house, with a flag about two and a half by about four feet. The wooden pole was held in the corner of the truck bed with ropes and duct tape, and as he drove, the pole was bending and the flag was rippling wildly.

I got out from behind him as soon as I could, because that flag looked like it was gonna fly out of that truck and cause an accident. I figured at the time that he was not likely to be stopped by a police officer and cited for the obvious safety hazard, given the mood of the country at that time.

I would want to know that the flag that this kid had on his truck was in compliance with safety rules before I got myself worked up about it.

Wasn't there one of those Allstate commercials where the guy in the suit "was a flag" that ripped off and hit another car?

Found it:
[video=youtube;u8VGWdkw4yA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8VGWdkw4yA[/video]

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

It's long past time for a little tough love for the perpetually offended. Let them find the coping skills they have buried deep, deep, down in their brains and learn how to use them when they are told "mind your own damned business" or "get over it". Not every offense should rise to the level of interfering with another's pursuit of happiness...quit allowing them to do so.

 

[eldirector]

And, if that student's flag ripped off and caused a collision (or any other property damage or injury), he should be held accountable by the PROPER authorities.

Until then? It is outside of the school's purview.

 

[CathyInBlue]

I remember driving on the highway soon after 911 and found myself behind a pickup with a wooden flagpole, the kind meant to hang on the side of your house, with a flag about two and a half by about four feet. The wooden pole was held in the corner of the truck bed with ropes and duct tape, and as he drove, the pole was bending and the flag was rippling wildly.

I got out from behind him as soon as I could, because that flag looked like it was gonna fly out of that truck and cause an accident. I figured at the time that he was not likely to be stopped by a police officer and cited for the obvious safety hazard, given the mood of the country at that time.

I would want to know that the flag that this kid had on his truck was in compliance with safety rules before I got myself worked up about it.

This is my only concern throughout this story. I'm reminded of the lyrics to Will Smith's song Summertime:

[video=youtube;Kr0tTbTbmVA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr0tTbTbmVA[/video]

But you can't speed through.
Two miles an hour, so everybody sees you.

I'd certainly observe a lower than normal speed limit while I had Old Glory flying high and proud from my vehicle.

This story just reinforces my position that zero-tolerance policies in public schools are properly called zero-intelligence policies, because these yahoos are certainly not thinking before they act in oh so many stories I'm reading about in the media. And yes, I know this story didn't technicly involve a zero-tolerance policy, but the sentiment stands. Is a 85 or lower IQ a statutory requirement for public school administration in these places? Certainly seems it.

 

[17 squirrel]

I could easily see a school having a policy that prohibits a student from driving a vehicle to school that is not "street legal".

Please..... The school has educators and administrators its not within there scope of duty's to make judgments on the safety of ones vehicle.

 

[SchwansManDan]

OK. I'm confused.
Our schools used to have a flag on a pole out in front. And there was a flag in every classroom, situated in between portraits of Washington & Lincoln.

In elementary school, the principal dropped the needle on a record player so we could hear Reveille as the flag went up the pole.
And the high school principal used to get on the PA system every morning to lead us in saying "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America ..."

What's so offensive about displaying the US flag in the US?

 

[bingley]

School says it's a safety issue.

Kid says someone was "offended" by the flag.

One of them is lying.

 

[BehindBlueI's]

The school reversed the policy before the story even made the news.

“Due to the outstanding display of patriotism through peaceful demonstration, it is apparent to us that many are not happy about this policy,” the school district posted on its website. “School officials have reviewed the standing policy regarding flags and have decided that an exception will be made for the American flag, as long as the size of the flag(s) does not create a driving hazard.”

For those who prefer not to visit infowars:

York school changes American flag policy after demonstration

Carry on with your normally scheduled outrage.

 

[poptab]

I didnt get a harumph outta that guy.

 

[DanSwanky]

I didnt get a harumph outta that guy.

You watch your ass.

 

[JTScribe]

The school reversed the policy before the story even made the news.



For those who prefer not to visit infowars:

York school changes American flag policy after demonstration

Carry on with your normally scheduled outrage.

I think the real point is that more and more it seems like school admins have had freaking lobotomies when they got the job. This is just another example. Pop-Tart guns, pictures, pointing fingers . . . etc.

 

[BehindBlueI's]

I think the real point is that more and more it seems like school admins have had freaking lobotomies when they got the job. This is just another example. Pop-Tart guns, pictures, pointing fingers . . . etc.

Seems to me to be the same issue that routinely pops up with home owner's associations. Read the link I posted and all flags on vehicles were banned on the campus. This student defied the ban and figured he should get a pass because its the US flag. The administrators applied the ban as written, to apply to ANY flag attached to a vehicle as a distraction to new drivers in the parking lot. People got wrapped around the axle and the school changed the policy to provide an exception.

I don't have a problem with that, nor do I have a problem with enforcing the rule as it stood. Of course the next time someone flies a non-US flag, what's the response?