GO REBELS! FIGHT FIGHT 
FIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!2001 GRADUATE OF JACK C. HAYS, THE REBEL FLAG WAS OUR FLAG. , RED&BLUE, A BEUTIFUL MURAL, ON THE FRONT OF THE SCHOOL THAT THE STUDENTS ~INCLUDING MY HUSBAND WORKED ON WHILE ATTENDING. the year after, we heard they wanted to take the flag away. nobody believed it could happen...untill they painted over the mural, and stated that the flag was banned, and if we dident shut up about it they'd turn us into the rangers. we could keep the rebel name, just not the flag. well you could imagine telling a bunch of highschool hillbillies that nonsense, after they'd been teaching the flag history. if your offended, go back and read your history books! we dont give a **** if your offended!
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So Of cource i been asked by fellow treehggers are you a treehugger or a redneck? I never knew of mucha diffrence. us rednecks, never throw anything away, we use it , turn it into something when it cant be used no more, mamma used the whole deer, daddy would hunt & bring home himself. kids were taught you grow your own food, milk the cows, goats, and sew the cloths. i dont know of more earth friendly people than my friends & family even thow they might not know thay are! Its my roots!
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these are some of the articles ive found so far, more lator!
To ban or not to ban: Confederate flag stirs conflicts for schools
By Del Stover
2/8/00 – One hundred and thirty-five years after the American Civil War, the Confederate battle flag once again finds itself at the center of conflict--this time in the nation's public schools.
Where the local football team is nicknamed the "Rebels," school boards are under attack for tolerating a symbol associated with the Ku Klux Klan and slavery. Elsewhere, school administrators are wrestling with young racists who use the flag to sow racial discord. Some officials, in their haste to avoid trouble, have attempted to ban the flag--and sometimes found themselves the target of litigation.
To put it simply, the Confederate flag is a lightening rod for controversy--and a major headache for local school officials. Yet, as shown by the debate raging over the flag atop the South Carolina Capitol, no easy answers exist. No one knows that better than officials of the Hays Consolidated Independent School District, a largely white community outside San Antonio, Texas. For two decades, fans at Jack C. Hays High School have waved the Confederate flag in support of the football team, nicknamed the Rebels. Yet, when protests were lodged against the tradition last year, some alumni and other flag supporters circled the wagons.
Today, the school board is caught squarely in the middle of the controversy. While some praise the flag as a symbol of their Southern heritage and a rallying point for good-natured school spirit, others decry the flag's use as offensive and divisive. One high school rival has called on state officials to ban the flag from public school events.
To resolve the dispute, the Hays school board is seeking consultants to help guide public debate and perhaps organize a citizens committee to find a compromise, says the board's president, Tim Brace.
"This is a very emotionally charged issue," Brace says, and finding a solution agreeable to all will be difficult. In fact, he expects the issue to be used against him when he runs for re-election this spring.
That comes as no surprise to anyone familiar with the flag's recent history. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, the flag served as a banner to opponents of school integration. That prompted a move in many communities to ban the flag, which in turn sparked a series of fierce political and legal battles, says John Coski, historian for the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, Va.
A new wave of challenges has emerged recently. In Maryville, Tenn., where 500 showed up at a public hearing last year to debate the unsanctioned waving of the flag at school events, officials sidestepped a politically unpopular ban by inviting students to develop an "official" school flag.
That decision met with some resistance. At the start of last fall's football season, dozens of Confederate flags were seen at school games in a spontaneous protest, says Director of Schools Mike Dalton. But school leaders made the new official flag available to students, and over the course of the season, the new flag began to supplant the old. Today, officials say they hope the issue is dead.
What will continue to plague school officials, however, is a more common problem: isolated incidents in which students sow racial discord by displaying the flag on campus.
Many schools have banned the flag to avoid such problems, and violators often face quick disciplinary action.
But the move is not without legal risks: A Kansas seventh-grader suspended for drawing the flag during math class sued the Derby, Kan., school district, and the case has worked its way to the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Meanwhile, a 10th grader in Stewart County, Tenn., recently won a court settlement after he was suspended for putting a Confederate flag in a collage that school officials found offensive.
Recently, the risks of litigation have increased as several groups--such as the Heritage Preservation Association in Atlanta and the Southern Legal Resource Center--now offer legal assistance to students and parents who want to challenge such policies, Coski says.
At the policymaking level, the heart of the problem is a basic conflict between free-speech rights and the recognized authority of school officials to ensure a safe and secure learning environment, says Edwin C. Darden, NSBA's senior staff attorney. To survive a court challenge, officials must show that banning the flag--much as they would ban any gang-affiliated symbol--is a response to documented acts of violence or to a real threat of violence provoked by the flag's use.
Each school board must decide for itself whether it can meet that legal standard. And the issue certainly isn't restricted to the South. School officials in Brattleboro, Vt., voted last fall not to ban the use of the flag. One reason cited for the decision was a concern that the ban could not be defended in court.
Other school officials have felt on safer ground to act:
• Last fall, three students at California's Central Unified School District, which has suffered through a series of racial incidents, were disciplined for waving a flag at a school bus.
• The increasing display of the flag by students associated with what police describe as a "white power" group prompted officials in Gilbert, Ariz., to issue a ban on the flag, reports the Arizona Republic.
• In Jacksonville, Ill., two students were suspended for displaying the flag on their car antennae, and a third was suspended for climbing onto one of the cars in an attempt to tear down the flag. "What it turned out to be . . . was students that were not thinking too well of the ramifications, the past history of the Confederate flag," says high school Principal Ed Wainscott. "The key was their intent . . . they just didn't think."
• In Burlington, Wis., officials had long rejected requests to ban the flag, citing students' freedom of speech. But that stance changed after pro-flag students harassed a student who was circulating a petition against the flag, says Jose Martinez, principal of Burlington High School. A fight later broke out, and the administration stepped in after students draped a flag over a cafeteria table to provoke further trouble.
"The key here is provocation," Martinez says. "By jeopardizing the health and welfare of students . . . that's when the freedom of speech issue is no longer a priority."
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Reproduced with permission from the Feb. 8, 2000, issue of School Board News. Copyright © 2000, National School Boards Association. Opinions expressed in this newspaper do not necessarily reflect positions of NSBA. This article may be printed out and photocopied for individual or educational use, provided this copyright notice appears on each copy. This article may not be otherwise transmitted or reproduced in print or electronic form without the consent of the Publisher. For more information, call (703) 838-6789.
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By Del Stover
2/8/00 – One hundred and thirty-five years after the American Civil War, the Confederate battle flag once again finds itself at the center of conflict--this time in the nation's public schools.
Where the local football team is nicknamed the "Rebels," school boards are under attack for tolerating a symbol associated with the Ku Klux Klan and slavery. Elsewhere, school administrators are wrestling with young racists who use the flag to sow racial discord. Some officials, in their haste to avoid trouble, have attempted to ban the flag--and sometimes found themselves the target of litigation.
To put it simply, the Confederate flag is a lightening rod for controversy--and a major headache for local school officials. Yet, as shown by the debate raging over the flag atop the South Carolina Capitol, no easy answers exist. No one knows that better than officials of the Hays Consolidated Independent School District, a largely white community outside San Antonio, Texas. For two decades, fans at Jack C. Hays High School have waved the Confederate flag in support of the football team, nicknamed the Rebels. Yet, when protests were lodged against the tradition last year, some alumni and other flag supporters circled the wagons.
Today, the school board is caught squarely in the middle of the controversy. While some praise the flag as a symbol of their Southern heritage and a rallying point for good-natured school spirit, others decry the flag's use as offensive and divisive. One high school rival has called on state officials to ban the flag from public school events.
To resolve the dispute, the Hays school board is seeking consultants to help guide public debate and perhaps organize a citizens committee to find a compromise, says the board's president, Tim Brace.
"This is a very emotionally charged issue," Brace says, and finding a solution agreeable to all will be difficult. In fact, he expects the issue to be used against him when he runs for re-election this spring.
That comes as no surprise to anyone familiar with the flag's recent history. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, the flag served as a banner to opponents of school integration. That prompted a move in many communities to ban the flag, which in turn sparked a series of fierce political and legal battles, says John Coski, historian for the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, Va.
A new wave of challenges has emerged recently. In Maryville, Tenn., where 500 showed up at a public hearing last year to debate the unsanctioned waving of the flag at school events, officials sidestepped a politically unpopular ban by inviting students to develop an "official" school flag.
That decision met with some resistance. At the start of last fall's football season, dozens of Confederate flags were seen at school games in a spontaneous protest, says Director of Schools Mike Dalton. But school leaders made the new official flag available to students, and over the course of the season, the new flag began to supplant the old. Today, officials say they hope the issue is dead.
What will continue to plague school officials, however, is a more common problem: isolated incidents in which students sow racial discord by displaying the flag on campus.
Many schools have banned the flag to avoid such problems, and violators often face quick disciplinary action.
But the move is not without legal risks: A Kansas seventh-grader suspended for drawing the flag during math class sued the Derby, Kan., school district, and the case has worked its way to the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Meanwhile, a 10th grader in Stewart County, Tenn., recently won a court settlement after he was suspended for putting a Confederate flag in a collage that school officials found offensive.
Recently, the risks of litigation have increased as several groups--such as the Heritage Preservation Association in Atlanta and the Southern Legal Resource Center--now offer legal assistance to students and parents who want to challenge such policies, Coski says.
At the policymaking level, the heart of the problem is a basic conflict between free-speech rights and the recognized authority of school officials to ensure a safe and secure learning environment, says Edwin C. Darden, NSBA's senior staff attorney. To survive a court challenge, officials must show that banning the flag--much as they would ban any gang-affiliated symbol--is a response to documented acts of violence or to a real threat of violence provoked by the flag's use.
Each school board must decide for itself whether it can meet that legal standard. And the issue certainly isn't restricted to the South. School officials in Brattleboro, Vt., voted last fall not to ban the use of the flag. One reason cited for the decision was a concern that the ban could not be defended in court.
Other school officials have felt on safer ground to act:
• Last fall, three students at California's Central Unified School District, which has suffered through a series of racial incidents, were disciplined for waving a flag at a school bus.
• The increasing display of the flag by students associated with what police describe as a "white power" group prompted officials in Gilbert, Ariz., to issue a ban on the flag, reports the Arizona Republic.
• In Jacksonville, Ill., two students were suspended for displaying the flag on their car antennae, and a third was suspended for climbing onto one of the cars in an attempt to tear down the flag. "What it turned out to be . . . was students that were not thinking too well of the ramifications, the past history of the Confederate flag," says high school Principal Ed Wainscott. "The key was their intent . . . they just didn't think."
• In Burlington, Wis., officials had long rejected requests to ban the flag, citing students' freedom of speech. But that stance changed after pro-flag students harassed a student who was circulating a petition against the flag, says Jose Martinez, principal of Burlington High School. A fight later broke out, and the administration stepped in after students draped a flag over a cafeteria table to provoke further trouble.
"The key here is provocation," Martinez says. "By jeopardizing the health and welfare of students . . . that's when the freedom of speech issue is no longer a priority."
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Reproduced with permission from the Feb. 8, 2000, issue of School Board News. Copyright © 2000, National School Boards Association. Opinions expressed in this newspaper do not necessarily reflect positions of NSBA. This article may be printed out and photocopied for individual or educational use, provided this copyright notice appears on each copy. This article may not be otherwise transmitted or reproduced in print or electronic form without the consent of the Publisher. For more information, call (703) 838-6789.
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The San Marcos Independent School District School board Dec. 13, 1999 passed a resolution (6-1) requesting the state ban the Confederate battle flag from public schools and has sent it to George W. Bush. The resolution was passed since the students at Jack C. Hayes High School, San Marcos High School's rival, have increasingly displayed the flag at sports games. The Hays school board is forming a committee to look into the matter. [Austin American-Statesman, Dec. 14, 1999, page B5.]
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