Why is there not a mob of parents crowding the office for answers. They complain....then just gently let it go. DEMAND ANSWERS! Logical ones. And for good measure throw in a "And your lack of appreciation for America and Constitutional freedoms is HIGHLY OFFENSIVE to us who realize you're weak human beings who hide from having to face the consequences of your bad decisions that negatively affect students who, for ONE day, want to celebrate America."

What about the students who find the administrations stance offensive?

Part of what grinds me is how the "decision makers" run and hide when asked for comment. A "board" or a "council" is made up of people. Just once I would like for one of these lunatics to step forward and give an explanation as to how this kind of decision was made.

what would happen if a good percentage of these students showed up wearing red, white, and blue on the day they wanted their original celebration?

i'm not a parent, but i am the eccentric aunt to quite a few kiddos. that being said, if my niece came to me and told me this was happening at her school, i'd print out 100 fliers asking kids to wear patriotic colors on xyz date, and then tell her to hand them out to her friends when the teachers aren't looking.

The Soviets are thrilled. The seeds (infiltrators) they planted in the 1930's are finally producing fruit. Poisonous fruit and it's in the public school system & universities.

It's the Globalization doctrine being shoved down everyone's throat in society, colleges and schools. Lose your identity and become part of the global community.

If people are present in the United States and attending school at a public school, they should not feel uncomfortable at celebrating the country they are living in, after all it is providing them an education, protecting their lives and providing all of the constitutional protection any other resident of the country has, citizen, resident or visitor.
In some cases they are not treated as well as possible, but those are relatively rare and usually handled by social pressure to be good and treate guests well.
If you as a visitor/guest in this country don't like us celebrating America the don't attend the celebration.
If you are offended by what goes on in this country, there is a easy solution. You know you don't have to stay. If you are a child you are stuck for a while, but in a relatively short period of time your parents option will be open to you.

Some foreigners, including some Mexicans I have talked to, "get it" and understand why someone should be proud to be an American.

Ayn Rand not only "got it" but defended America and its rational values whenever possible. She could have stayed in Soviet Russia, but chose to be an American. At the conclusion of one of her last talks at Boston's Ford Hall Forum she said, "God bless America!" She of course was not being religious, but was invoking the sentiment felt by many Americans (and pro-American foreigners) or any or no religion upon hearing those words.

If I were a student at that school I would dress in my very best clothes, and wear an oh-so-tasteful red-white-and-blue necktie. I would probably do so for a week. If told my clothing was inappropriate, I would continue, waiting to be expelled. If expelled, I would make sure I appeared on TV--wearing my best clothes, of course.

This is an offensive, disgusting display of Anti-American sentiment. That’s exactly what it is and it needs to be given a label as such. These “Progressives” love labeling things then let them wear this one. Anti-American.

I am glad that our little school room has an American flag hanging in it and our 6 year old pledges her allegiance everyday.

khalling; it's not that they hate this country. They hate any country and any national pride, and particularly, the US because it has been the most successful up through the 50's in holding back the drive for Marxist Utopia. And it's not just that they are teaching and administrating in the schools, they are setting the criteria throughout the entire education system - laws, regulations, grants, instruction guidelines, textbook materials, teacher education and certification, administrator education and certification, classroom materials (propaganda), on and on. And they are in every classroom of this nation and are controlling the battle space.

Make no mistake, their goals haven't really changed since the late 1800's. A world governance and what they envision as a technocrat controlled humanity. We make the mistake of concentrating on only the immediate, 'what's in our face' rather than the institutional drivers and machinations that have led to the immediate issue. Yes, it's important to show our children a win for our side once in a while, but we're in a multi-generational war for the very survival of a society in which a rational man of the mind can exist, much less thrive.

Each and every event of this type needs someone that will trace back to the initiator, the when, and the how this particular issue moved into the particular school and not only push back, but then push forward to the removal and even re-instruction of every participant. Or start another school. Home instruction is important, but each of those motivated home instructors could have a much greater impact by helping to provide an alternative source of education for the community.

It need not be on overly patriotic or christian identification, but rather an emphasis on educational results. One community based program I was interested in was, I believe, California (of all places) in which parents in the community could actually take over the running of a school if the school had failing grades in some particular criteria, (probably state). I've not heard much about the program in the last couple of years or so, but it struck me as a truly significant plan.

But regardless, until we recognize the true extent of the war we're in and the actual faces of our enemy, we lose.

If something like this happens at the school your kids attend tell the administration and the school board you are withdrawing them and why. This will get their attention.

Put your kids in private school, an online charter school, or teach them at home. Public schools continually teach this stuff. You risk having kids that will growup to be liberal (socialist??) adults and may never outgrow it.

I was an educator for four decades.
Now I home-school my own daughter.
You have NO idea how bad it is in some ways.
And there is ALWAYS an excuse.
Not justice - just an excuse.
And don't you dare mention the imbalance - you do not have the same protections from unions if you aren't liberal.

It is almost amusing how the liberal mind works. They seem hell-bent on self destruction by denigrating the very thing which is their salvation. In this case, as in many others, Michael Savage is right when he says, "Liberalism is a mental disorder."

Campus and school district officials said they rejected the use of " 'Merica" because it "is a slang term that is often used in a negative stereotypical way to describe life in the U.S."

Fort Collins High School Principal Mark Eversole sent a letter to parents on Tuesday, stating that the school would rename the first day of its spirit week "America Day" in response to protests from some in the community and a "misinterpretation of our intentions."

"We were surprised that our community interpreted our actions as anti-American," Eversole said wrote in the letter. "We are a proud public school in America and support many activities to celebrate our great nation."



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Perhaps, when these kind of events come to light, a email and phone call campaign to the offending schools administrators, boards and districts is in order. Not just from within the district, from all over the country. A little pressure might make others think twice before it happens again. Then again, maybe its just me who thinks it will make a difference.
Anyone have the email address, etc. for the particular district, school, board, etc. in this article?

I hope the kids who asked for the day in the first place, PLAY IT UP! Go whole hog, red white and blue. Wrap themselves in the American flag, to show that they are proud of our nation. It makes me so angry. Why would showing pride in the country you are living in be offensive to anyone. If it offends them, leave! God bless the kids who started this and keep up the good fight.