2006-12-12 16:49:50 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Other - Education
Is it right? No? Is it legal? Yes. Would the ACLU fight it? Probably. However, there is a long history of schools banning things arbitrarily -- t-shirts, toys, electronics, certain types of dancing, etc.
Your daughter's school isn't the only one though. Especially with recent immigration issues, this has become a hot-button issue with schools across the country:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-04-01-flagprotest_x.htm
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/8439483/detail.html
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_20060510/ai_n16355292
2006-12-12 16:57:21 · answer #1 · answered by GatsbyGirl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only if there is a rule saying no flags or symbols of any country. The reason for this is that in some schools there are great tensions between different ethnic groups. The high school I teach in will not let kids wear symbols such as flags because they use that as gang symbols to identify themselves to each other, which causes problems. On ethnic pride day we had students literally sitting on the flags of their heritage , using them as capes and wrapping them around their butts. This is highly disrespectful when you treat a flag this way it shows lack of respect. Rival kids would take the other kids flags and stamp on them. I think your daughters school is just trying to prevent a problem that she would not intentionally be part of.
2006-12-13 00:55:15 · answer #2 · answered by fancyname 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Legally the Teacher or School cannot banned any Flag. It is freedom of speech. If the Teacher banned the Mexican Flag, He/She must also banned all other Flags from other Countries.
2006-12-14 05:47:06 · answer #3 · answered by art_raiders 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the Schools policy covers a wide range of items that this particular thing falls under, it would be considered a banned item. The policy does not have to directly refer to any specific item because the list would be too long. These policies are usually written very vaguely in order to allow the school to do what they want to depending on the situation they are faced with.
2006-12-13 00:58:11 · answer #4 · answered by Agnon L 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ask them for the legal written policy that states this is not legal. If there is no legal policy for this, they are lying.
2006-12-13 00:53:14 · answer #5 · answered by jdeekdee 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just give her a dora box theres too much fighting in the world. why start another fight..
2006-12-13 01:09:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't see what the point of it could be, I could contact your states ACLU.
2006-12-13 00:58:24 · answer #7 · answered by columind99 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow that's so sad and wrong.
I wish you the best!
2006-12-13 01:11:11 · answer #8 · answered by WiseWisher 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes.
Common, why you do something like that?, please just buy a winnie poh paper for wrapping, and be patriot at home.
Saludos Jose.
2006-12-13 00:59:18 · answer #9 · answered by falconj 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋