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

On Jul 17, 2025 at 8:14:18 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

On 7/17/2025 1:18 AM, BTR1701 wrote:

 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.)

 
Yes, but I continue to hope for a difference between speech to inform
and speech to injure.

And the distinction between the two will be left to the aforementioned
martinets to determine, yes?