Five students at a South Bay high school stirred up some controversy Wednesday for wearing t-shirts depicting red, white and blue American flags on Cinco de Mayo.
School officials at Live Oak High in Morgan Hill told the students they had to go home if they wouldnât turn the shirts inside out.
One of the students said it appeared school administrators were worried the patriotic shirts could trigger fights.
Some students at Live Oak High in Morgan Hill said others were planning to come to school Thursday wearing red, white and blue.
Four of the five students who wore American flags or patriotic colors on campus walked into a meeting with the superintendent of the Morgan Hill unified school district Wednesday night.
They were facing unexcused absences because they chose to go home early rather than take off what they were wearing.
â¦Some Mexican-American students KTVU spoke with said they thought wearing red, white and blue on Cinco de Mayo was disrespectful.
âItâs just kinda disrespectful that they would do that on this day,â said student Victoria Wright. âI mean, we donât go around on 4th of July wearing red white and green and saying âViva Mexico,â because thatâs disrespectful.â
Cinco de Mayo is a Budweiser Holiday. Its an excuse to drink.
Almost no one celebrates it in Mexico.
Its like Mexicans celebrating The Battle of Lexington, or Valley Forge or something.
Anyway, People can whatever they want. I think Voltaire once said " Sir, I disagree with everything you said, but I'll fight to the death for your right to say it."
It could be the other way around. People are looking for ways to depict something done as being offensive so they can remove it just for trollish behavior.
What people don't realize is that the "Five" were attempting to start a fight. If they just wore the colors, no big deal. But they were picking on Mexicans and attempting to get violent. In that case, I say expel them.
Well nobody knows why so you might want to prove it
When I first read the article, I misunderstood it. I thought it said they were attempting to start a fight. Turns out they were accused of trying to start a fight, though the Five deny it. My bad.
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Whether or not the students said that the 5 were planning on being offensive, it cannot be used as fact. All it is is a rumor, not proof. In this case, it would be hard to even get facts out of it.
Seems to me like another case of a school overstepping its authority becouse they think they can, but that's my opinion. You have the right to speak your opinion whenever and wherever you want and if offends someone, tought luck for them. Now, if you offend them on their property they can make you leave but that's another issue. People have the right to speak their minds whenever and wherever they want and no one should have the right to stop them (except on private property), especially on government land.
