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Brickbat: Big Bear

Charles Oliver | 8.20.2013 6:00 AM

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California's Monterey Peninsula Unified School District has barred students from wearing any clothing with the California flag, maps of the state, bears, the NorCal star or any references to the Bay Area. School officials say police warned them those symbols may now be associated with gangs.

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Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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