Brickbat: The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

Maticsandra / Dreamstime.com

When one student at Pennsylvania's Plum Borough School District complained that another had worn a sweatshirt with the Confederate flag to school, the superintendent informed his family that the school could not forbid the other student from wearing the shirt to school unless it was disruptive. But when three students showed up with clothing with the Confederate flag, officials said that was disruptive, ordered them to change and sent home the two who refused.

Comments

[straffinrun]

Whether or not you can wear something depends on how other students react. That policy may have a few unforeseen consequences.

[Adans smith]

You thinking Lord of the Flies or Animal Farm?

[gaoxiaen]

Brave New World/Order.

[Rat]

You know the response would be different if it was a [Mexican/rainbow/other proggy] flag regardless of how many students complained. That would be an opportunity to lecture them about how intolerant they are.

[straffinrun]

TouChe.

[Adans smith]

'Hey,we don't take kindlly to that Frenchie talk around here'.

[Tyler.C]

It's just so disruptive

[Mr Drew]

What you did there, yes, I see it. Well done.

[Quo Usque Tandem]

Well said; of course ethnic [non appropriating, of course] proggy or gender identity are all inherently "good" according to the narrative, while anything not part of that is necessarily "bad." So yes, there will be different standards applied,

I hope if Trump does anything it will be to kill any support for Title IX and the hundreds of university positions of ethnic and diversity driven and funded by it, reign in the OCR, and eliminate the Department of Education. Most of the ridiculous crap going on in schools and universities is a direct result of this administrations agenda and support for enforcement.

[thrakkorzog]

I have read this short description a half dozen times, and it still comes off as gibberish. That comes off as one of my drunk paraphrases.

So then I clicked on the link, and it somehow manages to come off as even more gibberish.

This is one of those rare fractally stupid situations where no matter how deeply you look, it's even stupider than you could imagine. When you stare into the Derp, the Derp stares back at you.

Hell, My old Middle school Vice Principal could have solved the situation by slapping around the kids wearing Confederate flags as clothing, told them to stop being disruptive dicks, then sent them on to first period.

[Robert]

Hah! That VP was a softie. A real VP would've shipped these rebs to Elmira.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Hey, stupid yinzers, you were the Union. Nice teaching, Plum Borough.

[gaoxiaen]

+1 no true Yinzer

[Bubba Jones]

Sounds like it was fine when it was just a shirt. But not fine when it was three kids making a statement.

[Mr Drew]

It's not censorship! We're just eliminating a disruption! Now conform completely before this goes on your permanent record.

[gaoxiaen]

Yes sir. May I have another?

[Griffin3]

They may think it's an organization.

[The Fusionist]

Confederates in Pennsylvania

[68W58]

Wesley Culp refused comment.

http://www.encyclopediavirgini....._1839-1863

[The Fusionist]

Wow, he sure was culpable.

[(((Renegade)))]

This reminds me of the NFL. If someone scores and does a happy dance, no problem. If he scores and is joined by three other team-mates in a happy dance, 15 yard penalty.

[geo1113]

Emmanuel Sanders

[gaoxiaen]

+1 Footloose

[Radioactive]

cause those dances, either singularly or en mass, are usually personal fouls

[Kelsiq1]

Need a pro for discrete cyber/identity issues [phone] text only. Or gmail darkwebssolutions

[The Fusionist]

Rose O'Neal Greenhow could have used that.

(just sticking to a theme here)

[Princess Trigger]

And walk out. You know, if one person, just one person does it they may think he's really sick and they won't take him. And if two people, two people do it, in harmony, they may think they're both faggots and they won't take either of them. And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. They may think it's an organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day,I said fifty people a day walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. And friends they may thinks it's a movement.

[68W58]

Watch it, you'll end up on the group W bench that way.

[Longtobefree]

So if something disruptive happens every time some one shows a rainbow flag, then rainbow flags will be banned?
I mean the rainbow flag, as a symbol of homosexual advocacy, is the primal cultural appropriation. The rainbow is a symbol from God (the God of Abraham, accepted by Jews and Christians) to never again destroy the world by flood. As an exercise for the reader, look up why the world was destroyed by flood.

[UnCivilServant]

Look, flood was ruled out, probably because the water bill was too high to do it again.

The next apocalypse will be on the cheap.

[$park? is totally a Swifty]

I thought only fake religions came up with goofy reasons for natural occurrences.

[Robert]

+1 heckler's veto

[CampingInYourPark]

three students showed up with clothing with the Confederate flag

quality journalism right there and right there

[creech]

I'm sure this school has never had a student wear a Che t-shirt, right? Then again that probably wouldn't be disruptive as 99.999% of the students wouldn't have any idea about how horrible a person Che was.