Just saw on cable news that in Westminster CO, the principal of Shaw Middle School has banned all patriotic cloth and fabric including flags and t-shirts with slogans or images (including both Mexican and USA flags and political exhortations AND also plain, unmarked clothing (?!) if it's the wrong color. Blue pants, white blouse, red sweater = warning, then expulsion.

We don't have any business in the world misinterpreting other folks' symbols. We're stupid enough about our own.

UPDATE - check this out:

School Bans Flags Amid Protests
Principal Says Students Used Flags To Taunt Others

(CBS) LONGMONT, Colo. Dozens of high school students protested a temporary school policy forbidding students from displaying the U.S.
flag, as well as flags from other countries, amid racial tensions following immigration rallies.

Skyline High School Principal Tom Stumpf said American flags were brazenly waved in the faces of Hispanic students and in one case a Mexican flag was thrown into the face of another student.

"When it involves the American flag and its abuse in vilifying other people, we simply will not tolerate it," Stumpf said. "They were using the symbol derisively as misguided patriotism. . ."

(JJ's Sincere Aside) WTF is it about Colorado this year??