Students Wear Confederate Flag Shirts To Oppose Peace-Shirt Group

[The Straight Story]

Students Wear Confederate Flag Shirts To Oppose Peace-Shirt Group
Peace Group Says Students Heckled Them


COCOA BEACH, Fla. -- Students at Cocoa Beach Jr./Sr. High School are waging a war on peace.

Recently, sophomore Skylar Stains decided to hold Peace Shirt Thursdays at the school. Skylar and her friend, Lauren Lorraine, started wearing peace shirts and soon recruited more friends to wear them. Now, the "Peace Shirt Coalition" as they call themselves, has close to 30 students from all grades.

"We've worn handmade peace shirts every Thursday since the first week of school, without fail," Skylar said.

But what started out as a light-hearted gesture soon started to be taken out of context.

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"Someone taped an 'I Love Bush' sign over my 'Wage Peace' sign," she said. "So I tore it down, threw it away, and the whole commons starting booing. I walk by later and find that someone has completely tore my sign down and placed an 'I Love America, Because America Loves War' sign up."

http://www.local6.com/news/14650138/detail.html

[pepperbear]

1. Yeah, I'd say the Confederate flag is an opposition symbol of peace...

One would think they'd wear "support our troops" gear.

[fascisthunter]

2. There Ya Go... No Stereotyping Needed (nt)

[Malikshah]

3. I hope they take it further. It is time for the community to step in and demand

answers from the administration. Swastikas? Confederate flags?

Bullying?

Somehow this is OK with the administration of the school.

What a screwed up school.

[VP505]

4. Jr / Sr High students

supporting war, I guess when your ignorant to the horror and destruction of war you do things like that. Those kids need some serious counseling, perhaps a visit to a local VA hospital might wake them up.

[tularetom]

5. Seems vaguely treasonous

to display the emblem of a governmental entity that declared war on the US. Wonder how much these little bastards will love war in 3 or 4 years when they have to go fight in one.

and it always amazes me when people refer to that flag as a "rebel" flag. The people displaying it are usually the most sheeplike least rebellious of all amurkin citizens.

[IsaiahTruman]

6. Confederate flag, swastikas, nooses ... what next?

Yeah, it's getting pretty bad. It brings to mind the "Jena 6" case, where six black students beat up a white student because white students had hung nooses froom a tree.

A noose is like a confederate flag is like a swastika. They're all horrible symbols.

Even worse, the reaction to them is getting pretty bad too, due to the influence or gangster rap music and videos. That, I suspect, is what gave license to the Jena 6.

To read a really good commentary about that, take a look at this:
http://reformationcomingsoon.bravehost.com/Commentary.html

That is a Commentary page on a really good web site.

[ThatsMyBarack]

8. Welcome to DU, IsaiahTruman!

:hi:

[Richard Steele]

9. Hi Isaiah!

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[Atman]

7. I was Sr. Class President at Cocoa Beach High School

No shit. 1977. I'll be back this weekend to address my class at our 30th reunion. The school has very unusual roots, being that most of the kids were the children of NASA rocket scientists. We had a history of this sort of shit, just not as stupid as this current fiasco. My brother's class, two years before me, had it's graduation interrupted by a tirade against the government. I was elected, in fact, because of my counter-status-quo stance.

I'm not endorsing anything these confederates did. They need some guidance. But you kind of sort of have to understand the very weird small-town island ethos. Our teachers were often our friends' older brothers and sisters. Our parents were government workers and scientists. It's always been a very counter-culture school, from it's inception as an open campus with no class schedules or grades. Seriously. This is not your normal school and never has been.

In fact, it's no longer even an open school...it's a county baccalaureate school which requires admission just to attend. For what it's worth. Believe me, I'll be finding out more about this this weekend.



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[devilgrrl]

10. Oh, isn't that just so clever! That'll show those peaceniks!!!!

[stillcool]

11. "Rarely is the questioned asked:

Is our children learning?" GWB—Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000

[AspenRose]

12. "I love America, because America loves war"

Wonder if a recruiter has been on campus. S/he'd be interested to know so many students have that sentiment, I'm sure....

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