I’m really not sure how to appropriately gauge the level of stupidity on display here by school administrators.
Five Live Oak High School students' First Amendment rights were challenged this morning when they were asked to leave school because they donned American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo. Officials at the school chose not to comment on the situation, but one student said an official called the T-shirts "incendiary."
I guess it’s a good thing that Independence Day is during summer break, who knows what would happen if someone wanted to openly display their patriotism that day.
UPDATE
Victor Davis Hanson has a brief post on this worth reading.
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[...] result was predictable. I mentioned last week that a couple of Live Oak High School administrators had removed five students from school for [...]