Mtn. View students asked to take down Confederate flags (OR)

Pedro Quintana, KTVZ.COM
POSTED: 2:07 AM PDT September 26, 2015
UPDATED: 3:44 PM PDT September 26, 2015

BEND, Ore. - A Mountain View High School student says his freedom of speech was violated after school officials told him to wrap up his Mississippi flag because it had a Confederate flag symbol on it ...

"it's where my family grew up, it's a heritage thing," he says ...

"We had two students who in the last week plus or so who had been flying confederate flags from their vehicles," Bend-LaPine School District official Jay Mathisen said ...

"Balancing freedom of speech rights and balancing safe and orderly learning environment that this is a reasonable path," Mathisen said ...

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