Kathleen High School

MORGAN HILL, Calif. -- Tensions mounted at a Bay Area high school Thursday, a day after five students whipped up emotions by wearing t-shirts depicting red, white and blue American flags on Cinco de Mayo.

A group of 50-60 Latino students walked out of classes at Morgan Hill's Live Oak High early Thursday, marching to city hall and rallying to show their support for a school official.

That unidentified assistant principal had ordered the students who wore t-shirts with American flags on Cinco de Mayo to either go home or turn the shirts inside out.

Among the demonstrators was sophomore Justina Piedra.

“We could have ignored it, but the fact that they did it to us last year -- see that is disrespect toward us,” she said of the students. “And they want to do it again and plan it out, they plan it out. They think it’s funny. It hurts us. We are just as equal as they are.”

Fellow student Lizbeth Ruiz also said she felt disrespected.

“There is no right for them to be putting us down,” she said of the t-shirt wearers. “All that proves that America isn’t what it should be.”

Meanwhile, Superintendent Wesley Smith released a statement saying the district does not prohibit or discourage students from wearing patriotic clothing.

"While campus safety is our primary concern and administrators made decisions yesterday in an attempt to ensure campus safety, students should not, and will not, be disciplined for wearing patriotic clothing," Smith said.

The case has prompted an outcry as news of the incident has spread across the country. A high school student in Yorktown, Va., created a Facebook page titled "I support the 5 students from Morgan Hill high school."

Kathleen Sullivan, a Morgan Hill Unified School District board trustee, said Live Oak also experienced problems on Cinco de Mayo last year.

She said some students had complained to the principal and vice principal that they had felt intimidated by students waving American flags.

In response to those complaints, school authorities had asked students not to provoke other students by wearing or waving flags this year, Sullivan said.

"The district's position is that that is not in our policy," Sullivan said. "But the underlying reason for it was student safety."

She did not know if the five students had returned to school, but said they have not been suspended. Smith added that the district is investigating the incident.

Kirk Hanson, executive director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, said the action taken by the school was warranted if their objective was to maintain the security and safety of the other students.

"Was there a danger of a fight between the students celebrating Cinco de Mayo and the students wearing the American T-shirts? If there was a threat, then their action was ethical," Hanson said.

"The decisions regarding student dress are always difficult for school authorities and it is possible that any particular dress, including the American flag, could under circumstances be threatening," Hanson said.

"But when the students' rights are at stake, the school authorities clearly should try to find some way to protect those rights and at the same time defuse the situation."http://www.ktvu.com/news/23470391/detail .html

Well, I'm an American, not a Mexican, and I live in America. Since I'm not Mexican, I don't really give a damn about Mexican holidays. I will wear patriotic attire any day I want. I would have sued the crap out of that VP.

The ONLY people that would take issue with people wearing patriotic attire at that school are RACIST anti-white MEXICANS. This type of behavior is typical of racist Mexicans. They think they should get to do whatever they want, but when someone does something they "think" is offending, they play the race card. It's sick but to be expected.

2010-05-06 21:11:57 by THE GREATEST GODDESS JILL

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I go to Kathleen high school and we were put on lockdown for SEVEN hours...They were lieing to the media saying that we were getting food and water though we weren't. We had to be evacuated out of the school and on to busses. The SWAT team dogs and cops surrounded us and we had to walk through them. At my school we a kid care for some of the classes for school so there were 4,5,6and 7 yearold kids crying for their mom. I had a police officer pushing me because I told him that if I din't get out of there I was going to run. We had homeland security and military forces there to. Did they go overboard or is it just me??

Sounds to me like you guys should be thankful they were there. Was there a bomb threat? Was there a crazed student gunning for other kids? Was there a terrorist claim that nerve gas or some other mass kill gas would be released? All of those are very good reasons for you to co-operate fully with the authorities when something like this happens.

If you had run, you would have admitted yourself as guilty of whatever it is they were there about. And they always shoot first and ask questions later. You don't have a "get out of jail free" card just because you're a teenager. The way they were acting it was obviously a teenager that was the problem.

I think they should have evacuated the younger care kids. But all the rest of you needed to be screened to make sure that you weren't the guilty party. And if it was just a hoax, so some jerk-off kid could get away with causing a little excitement, I think his (or her) @ss should be thrown into adult jail, and left to rot for a long time!

Did they go overboard...NO! Absolutely not! The only thing that should have been done any differently was bringing out the young kids as soon as possible.

2006-09-29 07:35:46 by Skylar

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2007-06-18 15:55:03 by Royce F

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here is part of a transcript taken from a canadian news show.

Is Ontario the top drug pushers?



RINALDO: Well, we followed the money and here's what we found. Across Canada, school boards get funds in their general coffers for children with special needs, including ADHD kids. Well, the more ADHD students a school identifies, the more money the school boards can get from the government. Call it diagnosing for dollars. And big dollars at that. In BC, up to $8,000. In Manitoba, as high as $9,000, and until Ontario froze a special education budget last year, as much as $27,000. Ontario Education Minister Kathleen Wynne says labels are about figuring out services for students, not money. So the cynics might say, all right we have a problem with child ‘X’ in the classroom. Let's label the child ADHD. Let's put the kid on meds. Let's get some extra money into the classroom.

That's horrible. I don't think my school district does that, but I know that a lot of teachers recommend ADHD medication to the parents of their students for their kids because it makes them easier to deal with (because they're drugged out zombies). So kids rebel and take the ADHD meds from the kids who don't want them and get hiiiigh and get hella homework and studying done and throw off all the tests scores and everythang. It's a vicious cycle, but our society makes it so easy (I live in California). Every other kid I know that takes ADD meds doesn't really want them and doesn't like the way it makes them feel and would rather go to therapy. A lot of them know they don't even really need them, but they're pressured into it. It makes it real easy to score some concerta or adderall if you want a nice afternoon upper or need to cram for a test. I'll admit, I've done my fair share of experimentation with ADD meds and I loved them. I almost tried to get a prescription but I came to and realized that was just a recipe for addiction and disaster

2008-08-06 22:32:29 by Stewart

COVINA - Charter Oak High School is considering reprinting and replacing pages of its yearbook that have offensive and incorrect names, officials said Friday.

School Principal Kathleen Wiard said she is working with the book's publisher to replace index pages of the school's 2008 Chronicle.

"Students put incorrect names throughout the index and did not go back and correct them," Wiard said Friday. "Most are not as offensive as the Black Student Union names but nonetheless they are incorrect."

The possible reprint comes after a yearbook staff student replaced nine BSU student names with fake names - such as "Tay Tay Shaniqua," "Crisphy Nanos" and "Laquan White" - next to their club photo in the yearbook.

Wiard said they are still investigating the incident.
http://www.sgvtribune.com/ci_9719639

Anybody know what "Tay Tay Shaniqua," "Crisphy Nanos" and "Laquan White" mean?

They don't mean anything. They are stereotypical black names used to insult black people. The people who did that thought they were being funny, but their stupid and childish

2008-06-27 17:32:16 by JaR