FASCISM Perry HS students say they were 'disrespected' for wearing MAGA gear on USA Day

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Perry HS students say they were 'disrespected' for wearing MAGA gear on 'USA Day'

Kim Powell
Posted on Mar 1, 2019

GILBERT, AZ (3TV/CBS5) - Several students at Perry High School say they were disrespected by staff and asked to leave campus because they were wearing "Make America Great Again" attire.

Friday was the last day of "Spirit Week" at the high school and it was dubbed "Party in the USA Day."

"We just wore all of the America stuff we had, obviously Trump is the president so we wore Trump stuff because he's the leader of our country, right?" said sophomore Morgan Dupuis.

At least eight students in MAGA gear were brought to the office at the end of the school day. The students say they were taking pictures in their outfits and holding a President Trump flag when a resource officer approached them.

"The police officer came up and said, 'we would like you to take off the merchandise and get off the campus,'" junior Tori Farris said.

The students asked the officer "why" and started to walk off school property when they said he started taking photos of them and asked them to come into the front office.

"He singled me out and said, 'Hey darlin' what's your name?' And I was kind of like, 'why do you need my name? We are going off campus, we're doing what you told us to do,'" explained freshman Logan Jones.

The students called their parents as they were being escorted to the administration office.

"She said that they had been asked to leave school campus because they were wearing "Make America Great" things and they were taking pictures with a big banner," Jennifer Farris, Tori's mom, said.

Farris walked into the office with her cell phone recording video of the encounter. In the video you can hear her ask the staff if her daughter was being told to leave because of her MAGA sweatshirt, and a woman tells her "no."

"I asked why they were asked to leave the campus and they said because they were displaying the flag," Farris said. "I said, 'are they not allowed to do that?' and they said 'no, it's disrespectful and we see that as disrespecting the flag and we asked them not to.'"

Farris said she was trespassed from the school property and forced to leave.

Jones said the flag was in her backpack for most of the day, aside from an assembly for USA Day, and when they were taking photos.

"Us taking pictures wasn't a new thing, people do that all the time [and] they don't have any problems with it. It's a very normal thing to do and it seemed kind of off to me that as soon as it had to do with Trump, they said 'you guys need to get off campus," said Dupuis.

Dupuis said that throughout the day, different teachers and faculty asked him to remove his MAGA clothes.

"She was like, 'that's very disrespectful' and 'you should not be wearing that' and 'take this off, if I see you with it again you'll get in trouble. I'll write you up, I'll tell your coach," said Dupuis.

Dupuis said a coach made him do 1,000 up-downs for being disrespectful.

"I was like, 'isn't Trump our president?' and he goes, 'yea.' So why shouldn't I be able to wear that for USA Day and quote-unquote all he said was, 'I don't have an answer to your question,'" said Dupuis.

The Chandler Unified School District would only tell AZ Family that one student was suspended for an unrelated matter.

Jones, the suspended student, said she's not allowed back for 10 days because she was being "defiant." She said they essentially suspended her because she wouldn't talk to the front office until her mother arrived.

The students say they don't understand why they were being disrespected for supporting the president.

"They were like trying to make us feel bad for wearing what I wear," said Dupuis.

"I just think this is censorship at its finest when it comes to the schools. They can't put USA Day and not expect the kids to support their president. And if you're going to do that, what are you teaching the kids?" added Farris.

It's not clear if any other students are facing any disciplinary actions.

https://www.azfamily.com/news/perry...cle_c039695c-3ca0-11e9-afa2-633554bc1ae3.html
 

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skoaldiak

skoaldiak

WWG1WGA
Next board meeting...

Chandler Unified School District
Governing Board Study Session / Meeting
Mar. 27, 2019
 
Dobbin

Dobbin

Faithful Steed
Friday was the last day of "Spirit Week" at the high school and it was dubbed "Party in the USA Day.".
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Hard to have a party - and then complain what the invitees wear?

Particularly if they wear clothes "better" than yours?

Of course they could have "dressed down" and wore attire more suited to the desired condition.

Like prison orange? Or socialist rags?

Dobbin
 
minkykat

minkykat

Komplainy Kat
Tinker vs Des Moines Independent Community School District from way back in 1965.

Members of the Tinker family went to school sporting black arm bands to protest the war.

All were tossed from school. Supreme Court ruled that they had the right to use.1st amendment rights.

Prepare the money now, Perry HS.
 
Dennis Olson

Dennis Olson

Chief Curmudgeon
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minkykat said:
Tinker vs Des Moines Independent Community School District from way back in 1965.

Members of the Tinker family went to school sporting black arm bands to protest the war.

All were tossed from school. Supreme Court ruled that they had the right to use.1st amendment rights.

Prepare the money now, Perry HS.
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While that’s all true, Orange Man Bad supersedes all else.
 
marymonde

marymonde

Veteran Member
skoaldiak said:
So, displaying/wearing MAGA gear on USA day is disruptive but on other spirit days...

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Look at the Soy Boy teacher or principal smiling in the midst of the boys dressed like their moms. He’s clearly enjoying it. What a sicko.

Years ago a new principal started the spirit days in the local Catholic school. The boys were suppose to come dressed as girls one day. The fathers brought their sons to school in their regular boys uniforms, and, well, ripped the principal a new one. She didn’t last long in this Conservative farm town.
 
Raggedyman

Raggedyman

Res ipsa loquitur
Dennis Olson said:
While that’s all true, Orange Man Bad supersedes all else.
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indeed it does boss - but never forget there are those - EVEN HERE ON THE BOARD - that continue to labor under the grave misconception - actually the DELUSION is a more accurate description - that the courts, justice system and Rule of law


actually function in their best interest

:prfl: :prfl: :prfl:​
 
skoaldiak

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Arizona teachers who talk politics will be fired if new bill passes

Lily Altavena, Arizona Republic Published 6:00 a.m. MT Dec. 19, 2018

A state lawmaker wants to send teachers a message: If they bring politics into the classroom, they're risking their jobs.

Rep. Mark Finchem, R-Oro Valley, has introduced the first education bill of the 2019 legislative session.House Bill 2002 would direct the State Board of Education to devise a code of ethics for educators that would include provisions forbidding the spread of political and religious messages in public district and charter schools.

The ethics code would explicitly ban teachers from endorsing political candidates, legislation or judicial action in the classroom.

It could also increase law enforcement and military recruiter access to students, and it would restrict teachers from teaching "controversial issues" or blaming one racial group of students for the "suffering or inequities" of another racial group.

Leading educators say the bill is a distraction from the conversation over school funding, coming after this year's historic teacher walkout and the #RedForEd movement.

Finchem, however, said the bill is "bigger" than #RedForEd and that the proposal comes from conversations with parents "outraged" by political conversations taking place during class time.

What's in the legislation?

HB 2002 would require a new code of ethics that includes several specific provisions forbidding teachers from:

Endorsing, supporting or opposing any candidate or elected or appointed official.

Introducing "controversial issues" in class not related to the course being taught. The bill defines "controversial issues" as political platform issues, which could include topics like immigration, abortion, guns and even taxes.

Endorsing, supporting or engaging in activity hampering or impeding a military recruiter's access to a school.

Endorsing, supporting or engaging in activity hampering or impeding law enforcement activity.

Advocating for one side of a controversial issue. The code would require teachers to provide students with material educating them on "both sides" of the issue, teaching in a nonpartisan way.

Segregating students "according to race" or blaming one race of students "as being responsible for the suffering or inequities experienced by another racial group of students."

Under the proposal, the State Board would develop penalties for violating the code. Punishment would include termination, according to the bill. It would also require a three-hour annual ethics training for all certified teachers.

The bill states that the ethics code would apply to all "certificated" teachers in the state. Not all public school teachers in Arizona are certified: State law doesn't require charter school teachers to be certified.

Taking aim at #RedForEd?

Finchem denied that his proposal takes aim at this spring's #RedForEd movement, when tens of thousands of teachers marched to the state Capitol, demanding increased funding for long-starved teacher salaries and school budgets.

"It's much bigger than #RedForEd," Finchem said.

He said the idea for the code came from a "stunning" number of calls from parents upset over political viewpoints taught in the classroom.

In one case, he said, a parent told him a math teacher frequently bashed President Donald Trump. In another, he said, a 6-year-old child came home crying because they were told they had to wear a red shirt to support their teacher.

"I'm sure that the vast majority of teachers don't participate in promoting political ideology," he said. "It only takes one or two people to give an entire profession a bad name."

Marisol Garcia, vice president of the Arizona Education Association, the state teachers' union, called the bill a "stunt."

"It's disappointing that a legislator would choose to do this at the beginning of the session," she said.

Teacher Noah Karvelis, who organized the #RedForEd movement, said the bill frustrated him because he wished legislators would focus on school funding.

"If we really want to get serious about what teachers need, they don't need a three-hour training on the rules," he said. "We understand the rules. What we need is the money to make our classrooms work."

Aren't politics in class already forbidden?

The ban on politics in the classroom is hardly unprecedented.

State law already prohibits anyone from a school or district to use public resources in a bid to influence the outcome of an election.

Earlier this year, some Arizona districts, with that law in mind, warned teachers about wearing #RedForEd shirts in the classroom.

Other districts have continued to allow them, saying the movement doesn't advocate for a particular candidate or ballot measure.

Finchem said he considers the shirts political in nature and thus should not be worn by educators.

"If you step into a classroom with a Trump T-shirt, a Hillary T-shirt, a 'Vote No on 126' T-shirt, you're engaging in political speech in the classroom," he said. "If there's a political agenda behind it, leave it at home. Simple request."

A code of ethics for educators isn't entirely unusual, either. Other states, like Texas, already have such codes for teachers in place. Texas and Hawaii's codes do not include any explicit politics bans, but instead address issues such as student-teacher romantic relationships.

Finchem added that other professions, such as the medical profession, routinely have codes of ethics guiding practitioners.

Proposed rules on inequity, race

Finchem's bill also includes several provisions that appear unrelated to politics, including a rule that prohibits segregating students according to race and singling out "one racial group of students as being responsible for the suffering or inequities experienced by another racial group of students."

This part of the bill seems to be a callback to the state's so-called ethnic studies ban, a controversial law banning classes that "promote the overthrow of the United States government; promote resentment toward a race or class of people; are designed primarily for pupils of a particular ethnic group; advocate ethnic solidarity instead of the treatment of pupils as individuals."

A federal judge ruled that law, originally passed to end Mexican-American studies classes in Tucson schools, unconstitutional last year.

State lawmakers won't convene in the Legislature until the beginning of next year. It's unclear how far Finchem's proposal will go or whether he'll be able to rally enough support among his colleagues for it to make its way to Gov. Doug Ducey's desk.

Reach reporter Lily Altavena at laltavena@arizonarepublic.com or 602-444-8927. Follow her on Twitter: @lilyalta.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/new...ure-mark-finchem-redfored-schools/2349602002/

Text of actual bill...
[url]https://legiscan.com/AZ/text/HB2002/id/1830417[/URL]
 
teedee

teedee

Veteran Member
Back in the 1960's we had an intern high school student that worked with me. He had nice long hair as was the fringe style at the time. He was called into the school office and told that his hair was disruptive and he needed to get it cut. He went to the barber and had it trimmed about 2 inches. When he went back the principal said not short enough go get it cut again. He went back to the barbershop and had his head shaved. I have no idea what the principle said when he went back but it took several years for it to grow back. I admired his actions but do not think I could have done that.
 
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intothatgoodnight

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Profit of Doom said:
I have heard that some consider MAGA to be racist. How is it even remotely possible to think that?
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You are mistakingly attempting to apply common-sense to this situation.

They do not share our values, nor our cultural goals.

Not about common sense, or shared values and/or goals.

It is about war.

During a state of war, every means available will be employed by the opposition, if they wish to prevail - the more that they can get to "stick to the wall," the better their odds become - count upon it. Do not be surprised.


intothegoodnight
 
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