Reply to "On Wearing the American Flag"

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Originally posted by Loki:

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Originally posted by WH:

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Originally posted by Loki:

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Originally posted by WH:

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Originally posted by Loki:
Guess it's a matter of how you interpret the flag code.

"The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery. It should never be festooned, drawn back, nor up, in folds, but always allowed to fall free. Bunting of blue, white, and red, always arranged with the blue above, the white in the middle, and the red below, should be used for covering a speaker's desk, draping the front of the platform, and for decoration in general."

Peronally I'm sure this means that an actual real flag should not be worn, but many have interpreted this to mean pictures made on to clothing of the flag, which I'm sure wasn't the real intent, but again it doesn't specify, so the principal could be right in what he did. Although from the sound of it, violating the flag code wasn't the actual reason he sent them home.

There are not any enforceable laws pertaining to flag usage.

Never said it was a law. Just quoting excerpts from the flag code. It is more of a guideline on how the flag should be respected. Just as dress codes aren't exactly laws at schools, but they are enforced despite a law not being in place for them. Just as dress codes are made to be followed, so is the flag code. I'm sure a principal of a school wouldn't recommend you break that code, especially if he/she is trying to enforce their own dress code.

School dress codes are enforceable...no comparison to the flag code. And yes...school dress codes are the 'law'.

Technically not, dress codes are all different. Most of the time dress codes are interpretted different from principal to principal, teacher to teacher. They are not laws. If you don't like them, you can goto another school. It's a code that is to be adhered to if you want your child to goto that school. If you don't like it, you move your kid somewhere else.