School tells 13 year old boy not to bring US flag to school attached to his bike

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I'm a Army brat and was raised to love the American flag fiercely.

If I rode a flag on my bike, my father would have whooped my ass. Why? There are actual etiquette for handling, displaying, and storing our flag. He would feel that it is disrespectful. I think it's fine...

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deafbajagal said:
I'm a Army brat and was raised to love the American flag fiercely.

If I rode a flag on my bike, my father would have whooped my ass. Why? There are actual etiquette for handling, displaying, and storing our flag. He would feel that it is disrespectful. I think it's fine...

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He is respectful of his flag. Did you watch how he properly folds it each time he puts it away? Veterans and military people were out in force in support of this boy. There is nothing disrespectful displaying a US flag on the back of a bike. It never touches the ground.
 
kokonut said:
Again, it was about the flag. Let's not be ignorant here. Never about the bike...but...the....flag....!

Oh, btw, patriotic citizens and bikers (as in motorcycles) accompanied Cody Alicia to school with his bike and U.S. flag as he road onto campus.

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Bikers Rally To Support Boy's Flag Display - Sacramento News Story - KCRA Sacramento

Yeah...just...walk...away....thinking it's all about the bike.
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Thanks for the cool pictures and video. :ty:
 
kokonut said:
He is respectful of his flag. Did you watch how he properly folds it each time he puts it away? Veterans and military people were out in force in support of this boy. There is nothing disrespectful displaying a US flag on the back of a bike. It never touches the ground.
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Yes, I noticed how he folded into the tricorn.
 
They made a reversal on the decision...

Nov 13, (THAINDIAN NEWS)Earlier officials at Denair Middle School in California asked athirteen year old boy named Cody Alicea to remove the American flag on the back of his bike because it might trigger racial tension in the school. The incident caught the national headlines in recent months with people voicing their views over the issue. In a surprise turn around, the officials of Denair Middle School have reversed their decision only to permit 13-year-old Cody Alicia to flaunt the colors again.

Cody Alicea says that he does this to be patriotic and to honor veterans, like his own grandfather, Robert. He has had the flag on his bike for two months but on Monday he was asked told to take it down. Superintendent Edward Parraz said that by asking Cody Alicea to hide the U.S. flag he was trying his best to dismiss the racial tensions that Cody Alicia’s act was evoking in the school campus.Edward Parraz further added that of late students have been coming to him reporting of this incident of the flag and that the flag was no longer allowed on the school property. It is pretty evident that Cody Alicea’s simple act of showing his respect towards the veterans in his family has not been quite simply.

Since United States is a nation comprising of people belonging to various cultures this decision on the part of the school has been justified as an act to make children aware of each others cultures and appreciate it. However Cody Alicea’s grandfather on speaking about the school’s decision to ask his grand child to remove the flag said that it definitely shows the school’s concern for avoiding any kind of menace but what he actually feels is that if this act was really an issue then it should have been brought to notice about two months back when Cody Alicea had first put on the flag on his bike and not during the Veteran’s week. After a mass outcry, the officials were forced to reverse their stance and allow Cody Alicea to unfurl the American flag on his bike again.
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Source: Denair Middle School Student Allowed To Fly The American Flag

Behold the power of the Internet and the People!

Anyone that burns the flag or tells someone to take it down is IMO committing an act of treason against our country.

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