School Makes Boy Take American Flag Off Bike

School Makes Boy Take American Flag Off Bike
Elissa Harrington
FOX40 News
November 12, 2010

DENAIR - 13-year-old Cody Alicea rides with an American flag on the back of his bike. He says he does this to be patriotic and to honor veterans, like his own grandfather, Robert. He's had the flag on his bike for two months but Monday, was asked told to take it down. A school official at Denair Middle School told Cody some students had been complaining about the flag and it was no longer allowed on school property. "In this country we're supposed to be free," said Cody. "And I should be able to wave my flag wherever I want to. And they're telling me I can't." Cody's grandfather says the school was concerned about racial tensions or uprisings because of the flag. He feels if there was really a problem it should have been brought up two months ago, not during Veterans week. "No action should be taken. We don't want any repercussion," said Roger. "We just want Cody to be proud of what he's doing."


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There are too many cases like this. "Racial tensions or uprisings"?????? Is this our country or what. If our flag makes you want to create a uprising then get the hell out.

There should be a Constitutional Amendment that says the American Flag can not be banned anywhere within these borders.

 

It's not a Amendment to the Constitution, but Congress has addressed this issue, kinda. The Freedom to Display the American Flag Act of 2005 prohibits HOA's and other residential organizations from banning the flying of the Flag so long as it is in accordance with established guidelines. I doubt anyone has considered that a public school would forbid a kid from flying the Flag.

 

Hell, don't they have a flag in front of the school???

 

How did you post this before Packerfan?

 

^ he's slacking thats how!

 

Just in case anyone is interested:

Here are the phone numbers and email address for the Superintendent for the school district.

Denair Unified School District
Office Hours: 7:30-4:00

3460 Lester Road
Denair, CA 95316
Fax (209) 632-9194
Office (209) 632-7514
x1202 - Superintendent, Human Resource Department (Ed Parraz, Superintendent / Jody Jorge)

eparraz@dusd.k12.ca.us

Names of their school board members with email addresses:

Louisa Allen
lallen@dusd.k12.ca.us

Carolyn Brown
cbrown@dusd.k12.ca.us

Kelley Day
kday@dusd.k12.ca.us

Tim Ellis
tellis@dusd.k12.ca.us

Robert Hodges
rhodges@dusd.k12.ca.us

 

Because I'm Steelerfan

 

Aaron Delworth, Principal adelworth@dusd.k12.ca.us

Melissa Oei, Campus Supervisor moei@dusd.k12.ca.us

 

Stupid, if they don't like it then GTFO.

 

Veterans day i was rockin the flag in the bed..Ill post pics when i get home..Yea i got a few dirty looks but what do I care..I have no shame for it

 

bullshit. this is AMERICA!!!! WOOHOOOO!!!

 

If you called or emailed it worked. Cody can know fly his flag.

LINK to Video

 

Obviously, the school is ashamed of this country and knows nothing about it. The flag is not racist. In fact it unites ALL races that live here... united (United States).

Very sad... I suppose if the kid flew the Cuban or North Korean flag he would get an A ???

 

Thats like when Obama rejected the Confederacy month. He was talkin out of his ass when he said that It would bring up problems in the black community.

We were confederates long before the civil war.

We were confederates the second we left England.

 

i just saw on the news a group of students were punished for having "STRAIGHT PRIDE" written on their t-shirts, but gay people can wear "gay pride" all day long and have a fuckin parad about it? America's goin down the drain if you ask me...

 

Very disturbing that they made him put it away.

 

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I also saw this on the news and this stuff makes me crazy.

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