Yet again political correctness and “diversity” trump free expression and trample the American flag. At a public school in California a student was told to remove the US flag from his bicycle “to avoid tension on campus”.
I’ll leave the full text of the news story for you to read but I was struck by what the district superintendent of the public schools, Edward Parraz, was quoted as saying, claiming he is trying to avoid racial tensions.
“(The) First Amendment is important,” Superintendent Edward Parraz said. “We want the kids to respect it, understand it, and with that comes a responsiblity.”
He doesn’t elaborate on what that “responsibility” might be but it seems as though he is equating proudly displaying the National flag with screaming fire in a crowded theater.
Parraz said the campus has recently experienced some racial tension. He said some students got out of hand on Cinco de Mayo, though no details were given on the Cinco de Mayo event, leaving me to wonder which “group” might have gotten out of hand.
Here is the gem quote
“Our Hispanic, you know, kids will, you know, bring their Mexican flags and they’ll display it, and then of course the kids would do the American flag situation, and it does cause kind of a racial tension which we don’t really want,” Parraz said. “We want them to appreciate the cultures.”
Aside from the obvious multiculturalism indoctrination that he closes with, this guy is the superintendent of the schools and clearly sacrifices grammatical correctness for political correctness. One might worry that this inarticulateness may permeate the educational system in the school district.
Parraz said if a disruption arises over a flag, they want it to be taken down to protect the safety of all students. Ironically, outside of the school, a large U.S. flag flies from atop a flagpole.
