Surprising nobody, the ban hasn’t gone over so well.
FRUITA, Colo. – Officials at Fruita Monument High School last week decreed that students can no longer fly flags from their vehicles. They even banned Old Glory.
“They said we can’t fly a Mexican flag, Confederate flag, American flag, any flag at all,” senior Paxton Streeter complained to NBC 11. “I feel very disrespected that we cannot fly our country’s flag in our own country.”
The news site reports the controversy started when senior Colt Chatfield came to school with a Confederate flag on his vehicle Monday, and it snowballed from there.
“I’ve flown it since I started at this school, and never had a problem” until last week, Chatfield said.
Chatfield initially complied with the demand to remove the flag, but came to school the next day flying the Confederate flag and an American flag, and he said he was threatened with his graduation rites if he did not take them down.