Thread: School OKs Hispanic Students Wearing ‘Dump Trump’ Shirts

by WARNER TODD HUSTON
9 May 2016
Newport Beach, CA

A California high school has agreed to allow Hispanic students to wear their “Dump Trump” t-shirts on campus despite a dress code that seems to prohibit them.

Sean Boulton, the principal of Newport Harbor High School in Newport Beach, a town south of Los Angeles, agreed to let a group of Hispanic students wear shirts denigrating GOP front runner Donald Trump.

The school’s dress code for the 2015/16 school year puts a ban on clothing with “inappropriate graphics” and clothing with a message that “denigrates others on account of gender, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, handicap or disadvantage.”

Despite those rules, school authorities are now allowing students to wear shirts attacking Trump and his voters.

One of the girls who requested the bending of the rules said her shirt made her “feel equal,” and that wearing the shirt was an expression of her free speech.

“I feel like they’re saying that we can wear the shirt makes me feel equal with them now. That I have the same privileges as they do. I didn’t feel that before,” student Angelina Alvarez told the media.

A district spokesperson said the shirts were allowed because the district allows political speech.

“Regardless of what side you’re on, we do allow students to wear their political attire as long as safety and security of our students is not compromised and that we maintain focus on learning,” spokesperson Annette Franco said.

The school also said it was looking into punishing students who were reportedly unhappy about the shirts and who “bullied” the Hispanic students for their anti-Trump garb.

The school’s decision comes after the Ninth Circuit Court upheld another California school district’s ban on students wearing U.S. Flag T-Shirts on the American/Mexican holiday Cinco De Mayo.

The case arose when a group of American students wanted to wear their U.S. flag shirts while other students draped themselves in Mexico’s national colors. The American-boosting students, though, were told to go home and change their clothes, and that they would not be allowed to wear the U.S. flag-themed garb because it might upset the Mexican students.

The students took the district to court and lost their case and their appeal to the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court.

When the decision was handed down, American Freedom Law Center Co-Founder and Senior Counsel Robert Muise said, “It is truly a sad day when government officials are permitted to ban the American flag on a public high school campus for any reason. Here, school officials feared that our clients would offend ‘Mexican’ students if they wore their flag shirts to school on Cinco de Mayo, so they ordered the students to either remove their shirts or leave school in direct violation of their First Amendment rights.”

In contrast, authorities at Newport Harbor High School seem to have ruled that shirts attacking Donald Trump do not contain “triggering” messages but anyone speaking against the shirts may be punished.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...shirts-banned/

(warner Todd Huston) well the school should be Dump (principal is he or she a mexican that why they said dump trump shirt's ? you did not state that ?
good luck trump

you can burn our flag that ok . but you have a dump trump shirt well in my book you students should
wake up so should the principal

Soooo glad I don't live in Cali and have kids in school there. I would be UNDER the jail.

What would happen if our kids went to school with shirts that said, "Deport illegal immigrants now!"?

joe '
i know the parent & they would not stand for this they are from the old school &they came in the right way they would go after the school that for sure

But wearing American flags on your clothing is banned!

W

All public taxpayer funded schools need to wear a uniform of Khaki pants, white tennis shoes and a polo shirt (a color of the school's choice).

Back to reading, writing, math and LEARNING! What a waste of our taxpayer money pushing this garbage! No more gang wear, pull your pants up, no scant clothing, now we can't wear our Flag but illegals can fly theirs and propaganda T-shirts.

NO to all of it!!

VOTE TRUMP! WE HAVE TO TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK FROM THESE MORONS NOW!! There's only ONE PERSON in the race who wants to save US from this catastrophe, his name is Donald J Trump, and he can and will do it.

I'm just boiling over today with all the stupidity I've heard on the news. There is no time to waste, folks. We said years ago this wasn't a few stragglers looking for a better life, this is a plotted, planned invasion of our country, and there's only ONE PERSON with the you know whats to stop this crap in its tracks.

VOTE TRUMP! SAVE AMERICA!!

And no, Bernie ain't it. Bernie is right on trade but doesn't have a clue how to fix it and he's as wrong as it gets on immigration, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.

He's own version of Socialist Globalism.

Live Oaks High School in Morgan Hill is the school that sent home students for wearing American Flag shirts. I moved from Morgan Hill in 2002 when the illegals set up a Day Labor site right in the middle of the town. They started using our yards for toilets and harassing woman, especially High School girls. All of us in my neighborhood (American Hispanics etc.) went to the City Council to complain and were told there was nothing they could do because the Catholic Church were supporting them. They did advise us that if we hired them that we would be fined. We on my block all moved and left it to them.

Judy I am boiling mad today also. But I want to know where Trump is. He keeps being given moments to speak up about what is going on in California, but I hear nothing. He has been canceling rallies. I keep hearing about Trump supporters in California having their property vandalized for showing their support for Trump, but where is Trump? California is a tough state and I am beginning to question whether he knows he can't win in California, so he is writing us off, or is he afraid of all the Liberals and Illegal Immigrants in this state?