Patriotism Not Allowed
From Schenectady (that’s in New York):
For Raven, every day is a chance to be patriotic. Her uncle, J.D. Barnes, is serving in Iraq. So she made a red, white and blue beaded necklace to express her patriotism and her support for the troops.
She wore the necklace to Mont Pleasant Middle School on Tuesday until she was told to take it off.
“All they said was [the beads are] gang-related,” Raven said.
“I don’t get how beads can be gang-related,” she added….
“It’s red, white and blue. The colors of the school are red, white and blue. This is potentially gang-related? What does that mean? It’s ridiculous,” Keach said.
School officials say the color red is often affiliated with one particular gang, and the color blue is often affiliated with another.
So apparently the trained officials from the school district are afraid that the girl represents some sort of new Swiss gang. After all, if they wear the colors of opposing gangs then they must be neutral. Though how that would be dangerous remains a mystery — the Swiss are rarely scary.
BTW, Schenectady is 170 miles from New York City in one direction, 170 miles from Canada in the opposite direction, 50 miles from Taxachusetts, and smack dab in the middle of Bereft of Common Sense land.
Gang-Related Patriotism
A sign of the times (via Alpha Patriot)…
WNYT – A federal lawsuit is slated to be filed Friday. At issue is whether a Schenectady girl’s constitutional rights were violated when school officials asked her to remove a necklace.
Twelve-year-old …
Absolutely not surprising. I don’t know how teachers even have time to teach anymore given the amount of time that they spend on making sure noone is offended by anything.
In defense of the teacher, though, if you listen to the America-hating left then you know that our current administration is nothing but a “gang of criminals”. I mean if we tried hard enough, I’m sure we can figure out away to blame high school gang violence on the Bush administration.