Your original premise is flawed. Many teenagers are not innocent.

I don’t really have an opinion on the Jessica situation because I don’t know all the facts. I surmised that was the reason for the printed flag ban.

I think its too bad that American people can’t wear/wave/display the flag of their country any place they chose. However, in a democracy, free speech is not totally without restriction. There are all sorts of environments where you simply do not have free speech. If you want to exercise that right, you have to change your environment.

I would rather have those limitations than not have free speech.

Flags are used primary as banners in war time and to mark territorial boundary’s Do we really want territorial boundaries between our students at school. If we let them go down that road due to our own “high-level” pontificating, how will they ever learn to get along and respect each other as “individuals” but united as a common people?

I am not going to engage in dialogue with you and I have told you why.

Stop the baiting. You do not need to respond to anything I say on here.

Michael covered the why of the question, as stated. If you spent as much time reading as you do trying to pick a fight, perhaps there would not be as many one-timers here.

Yes, it may be free speech, but you completely ignore why this ban was put into place. It was because foreign students made up in part of illegals(NC has a large number of illegals), were wearing foreign flags and obviously engaging in poor behavior.

This was not due to Americans with American Flags causing problems it was foreigners, and that is pretty sad that American students have to suffer because of that.

Last year, Hobbton High School in Newton Grove banned students from wearing clothing bearing flags after some teens wore foreign flags as gang symbols. The ban outraged a lot of parents and students.

“I think it’s wrong,” said Jessica Langston.

Langston, a senior at the school, said she was disappointed when she couldn’t wear a Remember September 11 T-shirt because it had an American flag depicted on it.

“We have people fighting for us, and we can’t wear T-shirts to support them,” said Langston.

“It’s a disgrace not to be able to wear the American flag,” said Gayle Langston, her mother.

Gayle Langston turned her anger into action, sending e-mails and making phone calls to anyone who would listen. E-mails protesting the flag ban came from as far away as China and Hawaii.

She got Steve Edwards’ attention.

“I had two tours in Vietnam. I didn’t know whether to get sick, cry or pray,” said Edwards.

He opted to fight for the flag again, using words not weapons this time to get his point across.

“I had to talk to somebody. This was not right,” said Edwards.

Under pressure, late Wednesday, the school lifted the flag ban.

“Effective immediately, the ban is rescinded, including the wearing of flags at Hobbton,” said Dr. L. Stewart Hobbs, Jr., the school superintendent.

“Mission accomplished. That’s what it was all about – standing up for what’s right,” said Gayle Langston.

The Langston family said they will continue to monitor the flag policy.

Hobbs said the school board plans to meet with its lawyer next week to determine if any changes should be made to the dress code.

Hobbs maintains the school district is patriotic, and he said he wished this situation had been handled differently.

I am sure everyone remembers the controversy a year or 2 ago when Cindy Sheehan was removed from the State of the Union Address for an anti war slogan on her T-shirt. Congressman Young’s (R-FL) wife was also removed for wearing a sweat shirt saying ‘Support our Troops.’ When those guys say no political statements at the State of the Union Address, they mean business.

I also remember when wearing flag clothing was considered disrespectful to the flag. I seriously doubt if the girl, Jessica, would have been reprimanded if she had worn a flag pin. She would have still been following the rules and expressing her sentiments of the day.

Actually, I am surprised no one here brought up 9/11 yesterday.

Sort of also tells you about how much these other students have embraced America and her Flag, that they continue to wear the Flag of where they came from.

We have all heard the term “ugly American” the liberals love to bash Americans who go overseas and act rudely or do not show an appropriate level of respect for the host Nation. But, these same liberals never seem to get around dressing down foreigners who engage in that type of behavior here.

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I applaud the school board for employing a constitutional principal, equal protection under the law, where the same rule applies to everyone.

Fly the flag, don’t wear it, unless you happen to be a soldier representing the US at war in a legal uniform.

“Just under half of this ”new states” group say they will leave the United States in five years, compared with two-thirds of those in the traditional states. Bendixen said previous polls showed only about 15 percent of Latinos planned to return to their home countries.

Both González and Raimundo said they are sick of the constant fear and the crushing days of waiting for work and are among those who are considering heading home.

”If the situation stays this way, not just me but maybe everyone will be leaving,” Raimundo said.

González is already planning his departure.

”The only thing I’m waiting for is to make some money, because I don’t want to go home empty-handed,” he said. “With all that’s happening, I don’t want to be here anymore.”

Under a new school rule, students at Hobbton High School are not allowed to wear items with flags, from any country, including the United States.

The new rule stems from a controversy over students wearing shirts bearing flags of other countries.

Gayle Langston said her daughter, Jessica, was told to remove her Stars and Stripes t-shirt.

“Today she wanted to wear her shirt, and I had to tell her no,” said Langston. “She didn’t like it at all because I knew it would get her in trouble. Of all days, 9/11, she could not wear her American Flag shirt.”

The superintendent of schools in Sampson County calls the situation unfortunate, but says educators didn’t want to be forced to pick and choose which flags should be permissible.

Supervisors passed resolutions Tuesday night to recognize English as the county’s official language and to join a coalition of local governments that will study legislative solutions to illegal immigration.

Spotsylvania Supervisor Chris Yakabouski was behind both resolutions, which passed unanimously. He is running for a state Senate seat.

The coalition resolution states illegal immigrants “may cause an increased burden on county-provided services, increased cost to the county and a potential increase in crime rates.”

Culpeper’s Board of Supervisors initiated the coalition.

Moran and Armstrong probably think that the 9/11 attacks were actually the fault of the U.S.

we might want to ask them why they think pontificating on their behalf is more important than strengthening our mental health system so potential psychotic nutbags don’t fall through the cracks again

But don’t you see? The nutbags who fall through the cracks are the Democrat activists — 9-11 truthers / MoveOn.org / DailyKos / Raising Kaine / Not Larry Sabato types. If they are locked up in the nut houses where they belong, who will be there to hand out their propoganda on the street corners and Metro stations?