California school's ban on US flag T-shirts allowed
Newsbot @ Fri Feb 28, 2014 11:57 am
Title: California school's ban on US flag T-shirts allowed
Category: Strange
Posted By: saturn_656
Date: 2014-02-28 10:40:56
DanSC @ Fri Feb 28, 2014 11:57 am
Clearly banning the flag was the best option, not teaching the students to not fight over flags.
DrCaleb @ Fri Feb 28, 2014 12:18 pm
You'd think USians would also celebrate someone's victory over the French.
Gunnair @ Fri Feb 28, 2014 12:27 pm
Sounds like a good day not to go to school then.
Public_Domain @ Fri Feb 28, 2014 1:17 pm
DanSC @ Fri Feb 28, 2014 1:30 pm
Public_Domain Public_Domain:
That would definitely undermine most of Social Studies.
Most of my Yankee social studies curriculum taught that all wars are idiotic, even the necessary ones.
Public_Domain @ Fri Feb 28, 2014 1:34 pm
DanSC @ Fri Feb 28, 2014 2:36 pm
We were taught that the American Revolution wouldn't have been necessary if the Brits had given the colonies votes in Westminster.
GreenTiger @ Fri Feb 28, 2014 6:31 pm
DanSC DanSC:
We were taught that the American Revolution wouldn't have been necessary if the Brits had given the colonies votes in Westminster.
Yes indeed.
GreenTiger @ Fri Feb 28, 2014 7:00 pm
DrCaleb DrCaleb:
You'd think USians would also celebrate someone's victory over the French.
Many nations get to celebrate victory over the French; Russia, Mexico, Vietnam, Great Britain and Germany (to name a few).
The main argument that I have is that is that I still have a hard time with the idea that in a school in California, USA it is Politically Correct to ban wearing the American flag because it might offend somebody.
How would it sound if a school were to consider banning wearing the Canadian flag in Ontario because some Americans there might might be offended.
Yes, I have a few old fashioned ideas, while this ban may be expedient it sucks.
Kazakh @ Fri Feb 28, 2014 8:35 pm
Very silly. Not wearing US flag in the USA? This is crazy. They should be able to wear it all year round. And how exactly does the US flag conflict with a Mexican holiday? Strange.
This is the end of the USA as we know it, I guess...
Kazakh @ Fri Feb 28, 2014 8:38 pm
GreenTiger GreenTiger:
Many nations get to celebrate victory over the French; Russia, Mexico, Vietnam, Great Britain and Germany (to name a few).
Russia doesn't celebrate it, meaning, there are no celebrations of any kind at all.
But they remember the war of 1812 with Napoleon I very well.
CanadianJeff @ Fri Feb 28, 2014 10:16 pm
DanSC DanSC:
We were taught that the American Revolution wouldn't have been necessary if the Brits had given the colonies votes in Westminster.
That may be why the line "No taxation without representation" was repeated so often in that section of your class. It was the line that started the Boston tea party.
llama66 @ Fri Feb 28, 2014 10:18 pm
Russia doesn't celebrate the end of The Great Patriotic War? I thought that what the aptly named 'Victory Day' was....
Kazakh @ Fri Feb 28, 2014 11:03 pm
llama66 llama66:
Russia doesn't celebrate the end of The Great Patriotic War? I thought that what the aptly named 'Victory Day' was....
Oh yes, this is the biggest celebration ever.
But I clearly was responding to the post about Russia celebrating victory over the French. In case of WWII, it was Nazi Germany...