Students wearing American flag shirts sent home
http://www.wbtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=12441226
May 06, 2010
SAN FRANCISCO (WBTV) - A group of high school students in California
say they were persecuted at school for wearing American flag t-shirts.
A group of students decided to show their support for the red white
and blue on Wednesday -- which was Cinco de Mayo.
The school's principal at Live Oak High School near San Francisco
told them either take off the shirts or they could be suspended.
The students say the principal and vice principal called the flags
disrespectful to Mexican-American students who were celebrating Cinco de Mayo.
"Our Hispanic vice principal was taking their side, and was thinking
that we were being racist towards them, so he was discriminating
against us, making us take off our stuff," said Matthew Darino, a sophomore.
Students were asked if they were trying to cause trouble.
"We're not trying to start trouble. We're in America," another
student said. "We can't wear our own colors?"
The students refused to take off the shirts - and were sent home for the day.
Their parents complained to the school system and the district's
superintendent says the principal went too far.
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