HoneyBadger
05-20-2014, 11:27
High School Senior Raises Gadsden Flag On School Flag Pole, Gets Banned From Graduation And Told He Is ‘Not Welcome”..
http://ammoheads.com/high-school-senior-raises-gadsden-flag-school-flag-pole-gets-banned-graduation-told-welcome/
This young man in Colorado was suspended from school and banned from graduation because of his prank. No damage was casued and the ‘prank’ was pretty harmless to everything but the principal’s pride. But, the visual of what he did angered his high school principal so much that she went on a rampage. His prank? Raising the Gadsden flag on the school’s flagpole.
Tread on him, she did:
Greg Stoneburner, a senior who just graduated from Central High School in Grand Junction, Colo., said he was told in no uncertain terms that he was no longer welcome at the school after raising a Gadsden flag on the school’s flagpole. Moreover, he told Examiner.com in an exclusive interview Friday, the principal withheld his flag and his diploma until after his graduation walk.
The incident, he said on Facebook, took place on May 9. That’s when he replaced the school’s flag with the yellow “Don’t Tread On Me” banner often associated with the Tea Party as a senior prank. He also posted a paper to the pole that told the history of the flag.
The prank didn’t sit too well with Jodie Diers, the principal of Central High School, who was livid over the prank. Other students, Stoneburner told Examiner, claimed she was angrily yelling to have the flag pulled down when she first saw it. According to Stoneburner, she pulled him out of a scholarship breakfast and told him and his parents the flag was a “slap in the face” to the school. She then said he was “not welcome” at Central High.
“She also confiscated my flag,” he wrote, even though she admitted he had not violated any law or school policy. Her reasoning, Stoneburner said, was that anything on the pole was school property.
“So my property was confiscated without due process,” he added. “I was denied access to a public institution because the principal didn’t like what I did.”
http://ammoheads.com/high-school-senior-raises-gadsden-flag-school-flag-pole-gets-banned-graduation-told-welcome/
This young man in Colorado was suspended from school and banned from graduation because of his prank. No damage was casued and the ‘prank’ was pretty harmless to everything but the principal’s pride. But, the visual of what he did angered his high school principal so much that she went on a rampage. His prank? Raising the Gadsden flag on the school’s flagpole.
Tread on him, she did:
Greg Stoneburner, a senior who just graduated from Central High School in Grand Junction, Colo., said he was told in no uncertain terms that he was no longer welcome at the school after raising a Gadsden flag on the school’s flagpole. Moreover, he told Examiner.com in an exclusive interview Friday, the principal withheld his flag and his diploma until after his graduation walk.
The incident, he said on Facebook, took place on May 9. That’s when he replaced the school’s flag with the yellow “Don’t Tread On Me” banner often associated with the Tea Party as a senior prank. He also posted a paper to the pole that told the history of the flag.
The prank didn’t sit too well with Jodie Diers, the principal of Central High School, who was livid over the prank. Other students, Stoneburner told Examiner, claimed she was angrily yelling to have the flag pulled down when she first saw it. According to Stoneburner, she pulled him out of a scholarship breakfast and told him and his parents the flag was a “slap in the face” to the school. She then said he was “not welcome” at Central High.
“She also confiscated my flag,” he wrote, even though she admitted he had not violated any law or school policy. Her reasoning, Stoneburner said, was that anything on the pole was school property.
“So my property was confiscated without due process,” he added. “I was denied access to a public institution because the principal didn’t like what I did.”