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struggle4progress

(118,290 posts) Sat Nov 11, 2017, 02:54 AM Nov 2017

School District Superintendent Says Confederate Flag Shouldnt Have Been at Event (WA)

The Tumwater School District issued an apology after a Confederate flag was displayed during a Veterans Day assembly on Thursday.

There were 14 flags featured in the program led by leadership students at Bush Middle School. The 530-student school is named after black pioneer George Washington Bush ... among the first settlers in South Sound ...

"As part of that program, one of those flags was a Confederate flag and one of the two students holding the flag was a student of color," Tumwater superintendent John Bash told the school board on Thursday night. "This leadership student was not assigned to this specific flag, but the student holders got out of order during the program."

Bash said he contacted the student’s family and apologized. He said the district extends its apology to anyone who was offended, and he doesn’t believe a Confederate flag should have been at the school in the first place ...

http://www.chronline.com/news/district-apologizes-for-confederate-flag-at-school-s-veterans-day/article_32777dc2-c69d-11e7-a9f3-6710d2f4ec1c.html

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School District Superintendent Says Confederate Flag Shouldnt Have Been at Event (WA) (Original Post) struggle4progress Nov 2017 OP

Yeah, well. Don't let it happen again. Liberal In Texas Nov 2017 #1

This happened in Wash. state. Was does that flag have to do with that region? No Civil War... brush Nov 2017 #2

I think that for far too long the Confederate Flag has been PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2017 #3

The flag of trators and terrorists should never be displayed in the USA. Dark n Stormy Knight Nov 2017 #4

Liberal In Texas

(13,556 posts)

1. Yeah, well. Don't let it happen again.

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Sat Nov 11, 2017, 02:58 AM

Nov 2017

Lots of idiots out there.

brush

(53,784 posts)

2. This happened in Wash. state. Was does that flag have to do with that region? No Civil War...

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Sat Nov 11, 2017, 03:11 AM

Nov 2017

took place there, then part of Washington Territory.

These racists sneak in their BS wherever they can.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,861 posts)

3. I think that for far too long the Confederate Flag has been

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Sat Nov 11, 2017, 03:20 AM

Nov 2017

on display so often, and in so many places, that it's almost invisible. So this school superintendent noticing it, and saying it should not have been there is good.

Now, if school superintendents in Virginia or South Carolina (to name only two states in the deep South) start noticing the Confederate flag and recognizing that it should not be on display, that will be real progress.

Dark n Stormy Knight

(9,760 posts)

4. The flag of trators and terrorists should never be displayed in the USA.

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Sat Nov 11, 2017, 05:07 AM

Nov 2017

Especially by any sort of government organization. Unless it's a new Confederate State, in which case, declare war and wave your flag so we can crush you.

It's disgusting that private citizens do it, but free speech protected.

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