Bloomington, Ind., superintendent bans Confederate flag

I would honestly be okay with the prohibition of both. This is a big reason why a lot of public schools are going to uniforms. It eliminates the bullshit.

 

I'm pro uniform myself.

 

Just to clarify, I went to many different schools in my time - public, Catholic with uniform, military with uniform, private with uniform , private with no uniform (Quaker) and Catholic high school with dress code for boys (jacket and tie for boys but uniforms for girls).

As an adult, I am pro uniform. I did not feel the same as a child/teen.

 

While we are at it, let's let the students talk whenever they feel like it. The teacher is trying to tell the class something? Too bad. Test going on and those talking could be cheating and the students trying to take the test are being distracted? Again, we can't let that get in the way of free expression.

Is that a little ridiculous? Sure, but I'm engaging in a little foolishness to make a point. I've seen a post about a slippery slope when it comes to restricting free speech, but the slope is every bit as slippery if you tell school districts and administrators that they can't put a stop to disruptive acts of expression.

 

I'd ban WWE shirts.

 

You're still traumatized by Hulk Hogan losing the title due to twin referees, aren't you?

 

Wonder if she brought Chaos and Uranus with her to the shindig...

 

Nope. Sorry. Segregationists ruined that flag for you.

The Confederate Battle Flag was resurrected by lost-cause segregationists as a rallying banner. There's a reason it didn't appear, for instance, on the Georgia state flag until 1956.

 

That's a nice job of imputing a position @Stoney never took.

 

I felt like I was answering his broader point, which seemed to be, "is the Confederate flag really that bad"?

If I was mistaken, I apologize.

 

SJ.com style is, "You are responding to an imaginary post."

 

The question isn't whether the Confederate flag is "really that bad."

The question is whether a public school can issue a blanket ban of the Confederate flag, where it has not similarly banned other symbols. (In other words, this is distinguished from a school uniform situation.)