Thread: This kid Deserves a MEDAL, not suspension.

So, Hispanic kid brings a Mexican flag to school and tries to run it up the flag pole RESERVED FOR THE AMERICAN FLAG....some Anglo kids (their words, not mine) stopped said descretion, and then burned said Mexican FLAG...the KID IS A HERO, but the school had him arrested and suspended...this is JUST WRONG

Official addresses flag-burning incident
By Lars Jacoby
The Arizona Republic (Phoenix), April 5, 2006
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepubli ... s0405.html

In light of last week's burning of a Mexican flag on school grounds, the president of the Apache Junction Unified School District governing board asked Superintendent Greg Wyman to send a letter home to parents by Friday to fully apprise them of the details surrounding the event.

The request by Lucy Young was made at a special board meeting Tuesday after Wyman told board members that not all media portrayals of the event had been entirely accurate.

Wyman also told the board he is convinced the incident did not reflect racial tensions at the school where about 17 percent of the 1,500 students are Hispanic.

The incident happened Thursday before school when one Hispanic student brought a Mexican national flag in response to an inappropriate comment about his ethnicity and tried to raise it with two other Hispanic students on one of the school's flagpoles.

Three Anglo students stopped them in a non-physical confrontation, and one of the Anglo students got a hold of the Mexican flag and burned it.

According to district spokeswoman Carol Shepherd, police arrested the Anglo student who burned the flag and the Hispanic student who brought it and cited the other four on charges including disorderly conduct. Shepherd said all six students are suspended and further discipline is pending.

Wyman said among the details that had been glossed over, or reported wrong by various media outlets, was the fact that the American flag had not been raised yet for the day and the student with the Mexican flag was never able to raise his flag either.

'There was some misreporting. . . . In all honesty, we've been burned by this one,' Wyman said to the board.

As a result of the incident, a letter was sent to parents last Friday stating, among other things, that students could not wear flag-related clothing.

After hearing from parents and community members, Wyman said administrators reversed their decision late Friday and sent out a new letter detailing the process to first come to that decision and then the reasons to back off it.

Wyman adamantly stated there were no racial tensions on campus as others had portrayed it.

Is the ACLU stepping in to protect this Anglo Boy?