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    JharkinsBreanna Edwards
    8/17/18 10:36am

    I’ve NEVER heard of someone being arrested for violating the dress code. That isn’t a law it’s a school rule, one that everyone knows is just used to tell people they can’t dress the way they’d like. If you violate the dress code you’re not fucking arrested you’re sent home.

    I’m glad we’re talking about how fucked dress codes are though. Toe to Tip they’re biased against women and PoC. They say you can’t wear tights or hat or dress in a specific way. It’s all just a way to keep people in line. For women it’s about boy’s not being responsible for themselves and for PoC it’s the school trying to stamp out the elements of the culture that aren’t ‘white’ enough.

    Dress codes are just bludgeons to keep students in line. 

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      Rarely Sober InsomniacJharkins
      8/17/18 10:41am

      I 100% agree and appreciate how clearly you articulated the point.

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      QueenVictoriasCorsetKatanaJharkins
      8/17/18 10:51am

      Why wasn’t this student’s parents called? The cops first? For a clothing violation? That isn’t disruptive? Come on.

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    Azure Lore - Hope Rides AloneBreanna Edwards
    8/17/18 10:29am

    I said, ‘what do you mean? That kid’s wearing a bandana.’ He says, ‘that’s the American flag.’ I said, ‘what’s the difference?’ She told me we can’t wear bandanas at all,” the 17-year-old said.

    §176. Respect for flag

    No disrespect should be shown to the flag of the United States of America; the flag should not be dipped to any person or thing. Regimental colors, State flags, and organization or institutional flags are to be dipped as a mark of honor.

    • (a) The flag should never be displayed with the union down, except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property.
    • (b) The flag should never touch anything beneath it, such as the ground, the floor, water, or merchandise.
    • (c) The flag should never be carried flat or horizontally, but always aloft and free.
    • (d) The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery. It should never be festooned, drawn back, nor up, in folds, but always allowed to fall free. Bunting of blue, white, and red, always arranged with the blue above, the white in the middle, and the red below, should be used for covering a speaker’s desk, draping the front of the platform, and for decoration in general.
    • (e) The flag should never be fastened, displayed, used, or stored in such a manner as to permit it to be easily torn, soiled, or damaged in any way.
    • (f) The flag should never be used as a covering for a ceiling.
    • (g) The flag should never have placed upon it, nor on any part of it, nor attached to it any mark, insignia, letter, word, figure, design, picture, or drawing of any nature.
    • (h) The flag should never be used as a receptacle for receiving, holding, carrying, or delivering anything.
    • (i) The flag should never be used for advertising purposes in any manner whatsoever. It should not be embroidered on such articles as cushions or handkerchiefs and the like, printed or otherwise impressed on paper napkins or boxes or anything that is designed for temporary use and discard. Advertising signs should not be fastened to a staff or halyard from which the flag is flown.
    • (j) No part of the flag should ever be used as a costume or athletic uniform. However, a flag patch may be affixed to the uniform of military personnel, firemen, policemen, and members of patriotic organizations. The flag represents a living country and is itself considered a living thing. Therefore, the lapel flag pin being a replica, should be worn on the left lapel near the heart.
    • (k) The flag, when it is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning.

    Now, yeah, you could probably argue that it was not a “real flag” being used as a bandanna but that’s just semantics and you know it. 

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      Azure Lore - Hope Rides AloneAzure Lore - Hope Rides Alone
      8/17/18 10:50am

      And it took less than a half hour for someone to come and argue semantics with me. 

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      Azure Lore - Hope Rides AloneAzure Lore - Hope Rides Alone
      8/17/18 10:59am

      Oh, I’m sorry, the Flag Code is a “set of guidelines” and not “law”. Kind of like how a Dress Code is a set of guidelines and not law, huh? So this kid gets arrested for violating a set of guidelines, but the kid with the American Flag bandanna doesn’t. I’ma go out on a limb and guess American Flag-wearing kid was white.

      And, no, I won’t be dragging anyone out of the grays.

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    QueenVictoriasCorsetKatanaBreanna Edwards
    8/17/18 10:49am

    Then you call their parents and suspend them and have their parents take them home. If it’s THAT big of deal.

    You DON’T call the fucking cops. That makes absolutely no sense.

    This is so egregious and racist.

    In the letter, she said an administrator asked the teen to remove the bandanna. After he refused, a DARE officer and two officers with the Apache Junction Police Department got involved.

    What happened to, “Go to the Principal’s office”? What happened to “We can’t allow you to go to class, we need to call your parents to come get you or arrange someone to pick you up”?  I DO NOT UNDERSTAND HOW THEY WENT FROM “Take off the bandanna” to “Call the cops”.

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      BlaqntelligenceQueenVictoriasCorsetKatana
      8/17/18 11:08am

      I DO NOT UNDERSTAND HOW THEY WENT FROM “Take off the bandanna” to “Call the cops”.

      ...yes you do...

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      ImdedDEDQueenVictoriasCorsetKatana
      8/17/18 11:19am

      Exactly how it should go. Ask them to take it off if it actually is a violation of the dress code. They refuse, ask them leave and/or call the parents. Absolutely no reason for the police to become involved as they’re just going to escalate the situation.

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    SeanBreanna Edwards
    8/17/18 10:48am

    Next, cops will be called for turning homework in late. SMH

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      NotTodaySean
      8/17/18 11:06am

      I mean they’re already trying that out in Riverside, CA:

      In Riverside, Calif., county law enforcement has created a program that puts children on probation for bad grades and other non-criminal offenses, holding the threat of prosecution over their heads for what is described as “pre-delinquent” behavior.

      https://www.theroot.com/lawsuit-seeks-to-stop-punitive-and-ineffective-law-enf-1827497527

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      BurnerColangeloNotToday
      8/17/18 11:23am

      Holy shit!  Abolish Riverside, CA.

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    SheeshTheseNamesBreanna Edwards
    8/17/18 10:53am

    Violating a school dress code is not a fucking crime. The criminalization of Black children is despicable. 

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    JustMy2CentsBreanna Edwards
    8/17/18 10:55am

    “I was like, ‘well if the first thing you think of is to call the police then you might as well just do that because it must be that urgent for you to call the police, I must be making such a big scene that you need to call the police so go ahead,’ and then I walked away from her.”

    Smart kid. Whoever called the police should be be suspended as well.

    What ever happened to sending kids to the principal’s office and calling the parents?

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    Sigma_Since93Breanna Edwards
    8/17/18 10:26am

    I got two Tubs on the young man beating the case and the school is making edits to the dress code as we speak. 

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      NightSandSigma_Since93
      8/17/18 10:36am

      Also fuck those teachers for trying to block cameras and assist those cops. 

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      Flamingo83 pt2Sigma_Since93
      8/17/18 10:48am
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      Nah this covers their asses. It’s so vague but I bet you they’re gonna say it puts him in danger.

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    mary2957Breanna Edwards
    8/17/18 11:32am

    Uh, sue. Sue for your college education. Nothing gets attention like having to write a check.

    They knew this kid wore this all the time. They just wanted to mess with him. They are just stupid. 

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    Dr. Chim RichaldsBreanna Edwards
    8/17/18 4:00pm

    The other three students who were arrested were taken in on suspicion

    This.

    I fucking HATE this.

    I thought you were supposed to be arrested if you committed a crime.

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      Eve-The-original-sinnerDr. Chim Richalds
      8/18/18 4:55am

      If you’re being treated like a criminal at school how can you learn? School can suck but it’s supposed to be one of the easier times in your life. You can’t arrest kids on suspicion, or anyone. I wouldn’t trust any of those pigs to search backpacks or lockers. Pissed of pis plant things when they need to cover their asses.

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    FredCee71Breanna Edwards
    8/17/18 11:36am

    Calling the cops on students for violating a school dress code?! WTF?! Just suspend them and send them home! If they refuse to leave school grounds, call their parents! If the parents don’t show up within a “reasonable” amount of time or, when they arrive, they refuse to remove their kids from school grounds, THEN you have justification to call po-po!

    Now having said all that, there are plenty of beaches out there this summer containing American flag-modeled towels and bikinis. There are plenty of houses all over the country who leave their flags out between sunset and sunrise without adequate lighting. And there are plenty of commercial products with the flag emblazoned on them. So motherfuck the “selective enforcement” of the Flag Code!

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      GratefulDavidFredCee71
      8/17/18 12:17pm

      Actually, another kid was wearing the American flag bandana.  He was pointing that out to show their hypocrisy in selective enforcement of a dress code rule that didn’t even exist.  He was wearing a blue bandana and we all know that must mean he’s in a gang.

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      Desperate for a Shag GilesGratefulDavid
      8/17/18 12:26pm

      Ohh that’s what that exchange was. Makes more sense. 

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