Confederate flag issue at high school in Lake Arrowhead quelled (CA)
Joe Nelson, The Sun
POSTED: 09/08/16, 10:58 PM PDT | UPDATED: 1 HR AGO
... Not one parent or student appeared to speak during the public comment period on the issue of the flags — a far cry from the board’s Sept. 1 meeting, where more than a dozen parents and students showed up to weigh-in on a small group of students who had staked Confederate flags in the backs of their pickup trucks since the school year began in mid-August ...
... on Thursday, junior Josh Mainez said he hadn’t seen any of the pickups flying Confederate flags parked outside the school since Tuesday ...
At least one parent, Jennifer Celise-Reyes, complained that students were writing “White Power” on their arms and chests and shouting it at minority students.
“A kid got in trouble for painting a swastika on his chest, but I don’t think he was one of the ones flying the flags,” said Ryan Olsen, a 16-year-old junior, as he sat outside the school Thursday with his black mountain bike, waiting for his father to pick him up. He said the student who painted the swastika on his chest, who was suspended, was also friends with the flag-flying students ...
http://www.sbsun.com/social-affairs/20160908/confederate-flag-issue-at-high-school-in-lake-arrowhead-quelled
