JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A bill advancing in the Mississippi House of Representatives would require all K-12 schools to fly the state flag or lose their state accreditation.
House Bill 280, passed 13-8 Wednesday in the House Education Committee, is a broader mandate that schools must follow the state Constitution and all state laws.
But one of Mississippi’s laws is an oft-flouted mandate that schools fly the banner, which includes the Confederate battle emblem in its upper left-hand corner. Districts, especially those with majority African-American student bodies, sometimes object to the flag as racist. One example of a district that doesn’t display the flag is the city of Jackson, Mississippi’s second-largest school system.
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Mississippi schools consistently rank as The Worst In The Nation. Maybe the threat of "The South Will Rise Again" will make students study harder in a desperate attempt to flee Mississippi.
ReplyDeleteGod Bless the South!
ReplyDelete735 or perhaps MS has bigger fish to fry than a flag issue. Classic case of a political shell game and the rubes continue to fall for it.
ReplyDeleteThe Confederate flag does represent slavery. The legislature should remove it from the state flag.
ReplyDeleteNo, it does not represent "slavery". It represents a time in History, and History needs preservation.
ReplyDeletePERIOD.