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struggle4progress

(118,295 posts)
Fri Aug 14, 2015, 06:22 AM Aug 2015

Confederate flags, image of rifle, show up at SCHS (TN)

Scott Broden
7:22 p.m. CDT August 13, 2015

SMYRNA – Confederate flags decorated about a dozen student vehicles at Stewarts Creek High Thursday, including one with the image of an assault rifle and the words “COME AND TAKE IT.”

Stewarts Creek High Principal Clark Harrell declined a formal interview about the flags, including the one with the gun image.

“We’re fine,” Clark said from the lobby of the school’s front office, referring other questions to Rutherford County Schools spokesman James Evans ...

“They can have that (Confederate flag pattern) on a shirt as long as it’s not causing a disturbance at school,” said Evans, noting that the flag display did not appear to be causing a disturbance. “I checked with principal. He said inside the school, things are normal ...


http://www.dnj.com/story/news/2015/08/13/confederate-school-rifle/31668565/

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Confederate flags, image of rifle, show up at SCHS (TN) (Original Post) struggle4progress Aug 2015 OP
What a nasty bunch of people running some Jappleseed Aug 2015 #1
Not Nuts About The Students Either ProfessorGAC Aug 2015 #2
yes dennisdavid Aug 2015 #4
A mother said d_r Aug 2015 #3
“I checked with principal. He said inside the school, things are normal ..." Android3.14 Aug 2015 #5

d_r

(6,907 posts)
3. A mother said
Fri Aug 14, 2015, 07:00 AM
Aug 2015

Her son n was hurt seeing the flag on about 4 student cars in the parking lot.

This was the way some students as responded.

It makes me very sad.

 

Android3.14

(5,402 posts)
5. “I checked with principal. He said inside the school, things are normal ..."
Fri Aug 14, 2015, 07:54 AM
Aug 2015

And that, Principal Harrell, is the problem.

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