Posted by
Always To The Right on Sunday, November 14, 2010 1:26:02 AM
Ed Parraz, the Superintendent of the Denair School
District told us a school supervisor asked Cody to take down the flag.
The supervisor will not be fired or face repercussions. Parraz says the
supervisor had information that Cody Alicea’s safety was at risk because
of the flag. Some students had complained about it and had apparently
made threats.
“The last thing we wanted was to deny Cody his rights,” said Parraz speaking about the boy’s wish to fly the American flag.
Well, that statement is demonstrably false. The last thing Parraz and
the school wanted to do was take action against the students making the
threats. The first thing they did was to deny Cody his
rights. They silenced him instead of dealing with the real problem,
which is about as clear a case of administrative cowardice as one could
find.