The Rutherford School District in Smyrna, Tennessee refused to ban the Confederate flag at Stewarts Creek High School after a black mother complained
BarkGrowlBite | August 15, 2015
In the wake of the June 17 Charleston, South Carolina church massacre, many Southern school districts banned the Confederate flag and apparel depicting the flag from public school campuses. Not so the Rutherford School District in Smyrna Tennessee where Confederate flags can be seen flying from pickup trucks in the parking lot of Stewarts Creek High School and students are wearing T-shirts depicting the controversial flag.
The mother of a black 14-year-old student has complained about the flag, saying that her son was upset because students were wearing Confederate flag T-shirts to class. She said the flag is “blatantly representing racism to me. It’s a big issue to me because of everything that’s going on in the world today. I just don’t feel like it should be in school. I don’t think it is the appropriate place for my child to be subjected to this.”
She said she feared for the safety of her son after seeing the flags waving from pickup trucks in the high school’s parking lot when she dropped her boy off at school.
A spokesperson for the school district dismissed the mother’s complaint, saying that students can rightfully express their views under the First Amendment. James Evans told ABC News 2 that “As a school district, we can’t prohibit such items unless it is causing a disturbance at school.”
One of the pickup trucks flying the confederate flag is reportedly owned by an African-American student.
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