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| Confederate Battle Flag at School Leads to Lockdown |
| 2015-09-28 |
| Should have brought a hoax bomb like Ahmed... POLK COUNTY, Ga. - A trio of students has been suspended from school after one of them brought a Confederate battle flag to campus. Officials said the disruption occurred Wednesday morning at Rockmart High School in Polk County when a 10th grade boy arrived with a Confederate battle flag attached to his backpack. "He got dropped off out of his truck and came down the sidewalk just like any other student does," said Principal Wesley Cupp. He said the sophomore, who is white, And therefor automatically assumed to be racist... then walked through the cafeteria before school started onto the courtyard with the Confederate battle flag strapped to his backpack. That's where he was confronted by two African-American students. "They wanted to confront him about what he had on his back pack. What did they say? Hey man why you doing that," said Cupp. Principal Cupp also said shoving and exchange of words among the students was minimal because staff broke it up within minutes. He said no weapons were found. But later in the morning, the school was put through a lockdown drill with students kept in class after rumors of other students bringing Confederate battle flags surfaced. Should have just set off a hoax bomb in English class like Ahmed then there wouldn't have been a problem. "We just did that as a precautionary situation to help maintain and control what could have been a bad situation," said Cupp. He said all three students involved were suspended for the disruption which had nothing to do with Freedom of Speech. "When you become a distraction where students can't learn because of a distraction then that needs to be removed," said Cupp. And of course all your handwaving and hysterics made absolute sure it was a distraction. ... more at the link |
| Posted by:CrazyFool |
| #6 was there a battle flag of the ships thomas jefferson sent to bomb the caliphate? you know the war to stop muslim slavers of north africa stealing europeans and americans? |
| Posted by: anon1 2015-09-28 19:56 |
| #5 How about a hoax-battle flag, maybe one with 18 stars. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-09-28 16:31 |
| #4 Contrast the media reaction to this with the reaction to Ahmed bringing a de-facto Hoax bomb to school and 'setting it off' in English class. Yes I think he (or probably his activist father) deliberately designed and built that 'alarm clock' to look like a bomb to the untrained eye. Who the hell would build an alarm clock into a briefcase? A shoebox perhaps but a briefcase? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2015-09-28 13:34 |
| #3 For crying-out-loud, get back to the business of educating students and quit the indoctrination of students with PC. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2015-09-28 13:29 |
| #2 What will they do if a mooselimb carried a confederate battle flag into school? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2015-09-28 13:07 |
| #1 I'm so old, I remember when school used to be about learning stuff... |
| Posted by: Raj 2015-09-28 12:15 |