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
I remember that in History class we went over a supreme court case similer to this about arm bands worn by students in some school. I think the court ended up ruling that students in school cannot claim the full protection of First Amendment rights.
