23 High School Students Suspended for Wearing Confederate Flag Clothing

The confederate flag is the subject of debate once again, this time due to a group of high school students who were suspended for wearing it’s image on their clothes.

The Washington Post reported that nearly two dozen students of Christiansburg High School in Virginia bore the regalia as part of a protest on school policy that prohibits Confederate symbols on from being displayed in the school parking lot. Public Schools spokeswoman Brenda Drake said that the participating students were suspended for one day due to violating the school’s policy on clothes that “reflect adversely on persons due to race.”

When the flag-bearing students refused to follow school rules for in-school suspensions, administrators turned the punishment to out-of-school suspension. One of the students, Houston Miller, reportedly stated that he will continue to wear the flag, with plans to do so again on Friday.

The Confederate symbol continues to be a subject of scrutiny due to the lasting fallout that resulted from the racially-motivated murder of nine black churchgoers in Charleston, S.C. Numerous public institutions across the country have continued to take down or remove the flag’s image for it’s suggested ties to supremacist views.

[h/t TPM]
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