Re: [OT] 12 year old British born girl punished for celebrating British culture

On Jul 16, 2025 at 7:39:40 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

On 7/16/2025 10:02 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

 Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
 

 Her entire school had a Cultural Diversity Day and all students were
 told to wear something celebrating her own culture instead of the usual
 school uniforms so she wore a dress that was essentially a British flag.
 She was an A student but found herself punished for her choice of
 clothing - along with other students - and her parents were called to
 pick her up early.
 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE2jV5qxE4g [8 minutes]
 
 Her parents were not at all happy and her community was very agitated as
 well. The school gave an after-the-fact "apology" where they promised to
 reconsider how the event was run the next year. I'll believe that when I
 see it!
 

 
 I’ve seen that and it wasn’t clear to me if maybe she got punished under a
 flag rule. When I was her age, it was illegal to wear clothing made from
 the American flag.

 
In today's (and yesterday's, and the day before's...) political climate,
it's also possible that she was brandishing an anti-diversity sentiment.

Which in a country with a 1st Amendment and a robust protection of free speech
can and should never be grounds for discipline. People, even school children,
are allowed to have an opinion on issues of public concern that are contrary
to those of the strutting martinets who run the school.

(Yes, I know this was England and they don't have a 1st Amendment, though they
do claim to value free speech in theory, even if less and less in practice as
time goes on.)