High School Suspends 23 Students For Wearing Confederate Flags In Protest

Confederate flag-themed stickers are displayed at Arkansas Flag and Banner in Little Rock, Ark., Tuesday, June 23, 2015. Major retailers including Amazon, Sears, eBay and Etsy and Wal-Mart Stores Inc., are halting sa... Confederate flag-themed stickers are displayed at Arkansas Flag and Banner in Little Rock, Ark., Tuesday, June 23, 2015. Major retailers including Amazon, Sears, eBay and Etsy and Wal-Mart Stores Inc., are halting sales of the Confederate flag and related merchandise. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston) MORE LESS
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Twenty-three students were suspended from a southwestern Virginia high school Thursday when they showed up wearing clothing with the Confederate flag, WSET reported.

The students at Christiansburg High School were suspended for violating a dress code that, the Washington Post reported, prohibits clothing that may “reflect adversely on persons due to race. This includes the Confederate flag.

The students were protesting a new policy that prohibits Confederate symbols on vehicles in the high school’s parking lot, according to the Associated Press.

One of the students, senior Houston Miller, told the AP that he will wear clothing with the Confederate flag on Friday too.

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  1. And none of them carrying digital clocks.

  2. You can’t fix stupid.

  3. “One of the students, senior Houston Miller, told the AP that he will wear clothing with the Confederate flag on Friday too.”

    Good idea. You don’t like school anyway…amirite?

  4. “south western Virginia…” Read: Appalachia … these kids have more to worry about than what they wear to high school.

  5. Yeah, like whose turn it is to fuck the family goat.

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