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09-12-2007, 12:12 PM
http://www.nbc17.com/midatlantic/ncn/news.apx.-content-articles-NCN-2007-09-11-0027.html
High School Bans American Flag
Tuesday, Sep 11, 2007 - 11:56 PM Updated: 12:52 PM
By NBC17
E-mail | Biography
SAMPSON COUNTY, N.C. – On the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, students at one high school were not allowed to wear clothes with an American flag.
Under a new school rule, students at Hobbton High School are not allowed to wear items with flags, from any country, including the United States.
The new rule stems from a controversy over students wearing shirts bearing flags of other countries.
Gayle Langston said her daughter, Jessica, was told to remove her Stars and Stripes t-shirt.
“Today she wanted to wear her shirt, and I had to tell her no,” said Langston. “She didn't like it at all because I knew it would get her in trouble. Of all days, 9/11, she could not wear her American Flag shirt.”
The superintendent of schools in Sampson County calls the situation unfortunate, but says educators didn’t want to be forced to pick and choose which flags should be permissible.
I think this is worthy of a few polite phone calls from across the nation.
Sampson County Schools
P.O. Box 439, Clinton, N.C. 28329
910-592-1401
Dr. L. Stewart Hobbs, Jr., Superintendent
http://www.sampson.k12.nc.us/
Hobbton High (9-12) 12201
Hobbton Hwy., Newton Grove 28366
Wesley Johnson, Principal
Jennifer Daughtry , Asst. Principal
910-594-0242
High School Bans American Flag
Tuesday, Sep 11, 2007 - 11:56 PM Updated: 12:52 PM
By NBC17
E-mail | Biography
SAMPSON COUNTY, N.C. – On the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, students at one high school were not allowed to wear clothes with an American flag.
Under a new school rule, students at Hobbton High School are not allowed to wear items with flags, from any country, including the United States.
The new rule stems from a controversy over students wearing shirts bearing flags of other countries.
Gayle Langston said her daughter, Jessica, was told to remove her Stars and Stripes t-shirt.
“Today she wanted to wear her shirt, and I had to tell her no,” said Langston. “She didn't like it at all because I knew it would get her in trouble. Of all days, 9/11, she could not wear her American Flag shirt.”
The superintendent of schools in Sampson County calls the situation unfortunate, but says educators didn’t want to be forced to pick and choose which flags should be permissible.
I think this is worthy of a few polite phone calls from across the nation.
Sampson County Schools
P.O. Box 439, Clinton, N.C. 28329
910-592-1401
Dr. L. Stewart Hobbs, Jr., Superintendent
http://www.sampson.k12.nc.us/
Hobbton High (9-12) 12201
Hobbton Hwy., Newton Grove 28366
Wesley Johnson, Principal
Jennifer Daughtry , Asst. Principal
910-594-0242