Everyone here needs to read Host's post on the Supreme Court's ruling in the Tinker case. Rules that pertain to issues of the 1st ammendment are not up to school teachers, administrators etc. to decided These are constitutional rights guaranteed to all Americans. Are there some limitations to those rights based on the educational environment, yes; but as the supreme court ruled, just because you are a fifteen year old high school student you do not lose your right to express your ideas.
Regarding the young lady, I am really suprised at the number of people that responded with "she knew it was wrong she shouldn't have done it". So then should Rosa Parks not have gotten out of her seat on the bus because she new that it was wrong? It's called civil disobedience people. One of the tactics that has proven extremely effective in inducing social change in, not only this country, but the world. Think Ghandi, Thoureau, King, etc.
We can argue about what the Confederate flag stands for (I personally agree with Mr Mephisto in that it is a racist symbol), but the point of all of this is that this school violated the Constitutionally gauranteed civil rights of one of its students and should, in order to keep this from occuring again, be punished.
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