Move over South Carolina you’re not the only state with a high school that banned the US Flag at a football game. According to reports, Owasso High School students contend officials turned them away from a school football game on Friday because they wanted to bring American flags into the event. The incident occurred on the same night that a South Carolina high school banned students from displaying American flags at a football game.
In northeast Oklahoma, Owasso senior Brandon Conrad said several students brought American flags and other patriotic gear to the USA-themed opening football game Friday, but they were turned away and forced to stash the stuff in their cars, KFAQ reports. “Our principal told us it was ok … but when we got there Duffield tells us it’s not ok, which is our athletic director,” Conrad said. Senior Connor Jones told the news site the students resisted, but police refused to allow them inside with Old Glory. READ MORE
We are living in such a strange time! We are AMERICANS! Now all of the sudden it’s offensive to be an american or have american pride in our own country??? Maybe they should not have allowed the school mascot or any of the school colors then either. I mean the other team, or kids attending from other schools might get offended ;). I home school my kids and they would be shocked that it is beginning to be a bad thing to display the american flag. We do the pledge of allegiance every day, and we recount the story of that fateful night, when in the morning the flag was still standing due to the pile of dead soldiers holding it up. Yesterday they were concerned because the flag was touching the floor. A little different than what is going on around them….