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Teens in the Lincoln Park school district in Michigan are now intentionally daring their schools to expel them for wearing patriotic clothes:
Ben Lewandowski says he was only trying to be patriotic when he wore a homemade T-shirt featuring an American flag bumper sticker and the words "Remember 9/11" to Lincoln Park High School on Monday.
After all, it was Sept. 11 -- five years after the terrorist attacks.
The 17-year-old Lincoln Park resident put the shirt on Monday morning and headed to school -- where he was quickly sent to the office and suspended for three days for violating the school's dress code.
He was one of at least seven students sent home for wearing shirts featuring patriotic images and messages. It comes less than a week after three siblings were suspended for wearing shirts emblazoned with the First Amendment, despite warnings, and a week after more than 200 students were sent home on the first day of school for violating the district's dress code -- which bans apparel with writing or pictures.
This is what happens when Liberal schools attack patriotism - it makes patriotism hip. When it takes courage, in this country, for a student to express his or her love of America, then you know that the school has lost sight of what America is all about.
Other Detroit school districts have a dress code similar to that of Lincoln Park, but permit patriotic clothing:
Southfield's school district implemented a dress code last year similar to those enacted in Detroit and Pontiac this year. Southfield Schools Deputy Superintendent Ken Siver said Tuesday that the district didn't have any problems Monday with students violating the policy to wear patriotic garb.
Amazingly, this is a rare case in which the ACLU is weighing in on the Conservative side of an issue:
This, according to the ACLU of Michigan, may violate the students' rights, particularly because it allows students to wear clothing that encourages school spirit but bans other forms of expression. ACLU officials have said that they plan to look into the constitutionality of the dress code.
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The "Freedom Tower" is a disgrace.
I for one am embarrassed.
Anything less than the twin towers (and this clearly IS)
Is a disgrace.
And the design...is silly,childish, almost feminine in some way.
I want the old towers put back dammit! and remind us when this country was run by men REAL MEN!