{"id":2017044,"date":"2023-08-30T16:19:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T20:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-won-student-booted-from-class-over-dont-tread-on-me-flag-scores-quick-victory-over-administrators\/"},"modified":"2023-08-30T16:23:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T20:23:17","slug":"we-won-student-booted-from-class-over-dont-tread-on-me-flag-scores-quick-victory-over-administrators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-won-student-booted-from-class-over-dont-tread-on-me-flag-scores-quick-victory-over-administrators\/","title":{"rendered":"Student triumphs over administrators after being kicked out of class for displaying &#8216;Don&#8217;t Tread on Me&#8217; flag."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwe-won-student-booted-from-class-over-dont-tread-on-me-flag-scores-quick-victory-over-administrators%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2017044&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>A Colorado School Stands Up \u2062for Conservative Values<\/h2>\n<p>A Colorado school just gave the country a lesson \u200cin the power of conservative resistance.<\/p>\n<p>A day after\u200d a 12-year-old boy was removed from a classroom in Colorado Springs over a\u2064 Gadsden \u2063flag patch he had on a backpack, the\u2063 school\u2019s board of \u200cdirectors issued a statement declaring the boy would be welcomed back into the classroom \u2014\u2064 patch and all.<\/p>\n<p>And the \u2064conservative author and activist who helped publicize the case published\u2064 a\u2062 two<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-won-student-booted-from-class-over-dont-tread-on-me-flag-scores-quick-victory-over-administrators\/\" title=\"Student triumphs over administrators after being kicked out of class for displaying 'Don't Tread on Me' flag.\">-word social media statement<\/a> that summed it up in words \u2064conservatives don\u2019t hear nearly enough these days.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cWe won!\u201d<\/strong> wrote Connor \u200cBoyack, president of\u200c the conservative think\u200b tank Libertas<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We won!\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/JusticeForJaiden?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#JusticeForJaiden<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Y8dX43e9Sp\">pic.twitter.com\/Y8dX43e9Sp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Connor Boyack \u2063(@cboyack) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cboyack\/status\/1696693472533635562?\">August 30, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>A \u200bSymbol of \u200cFreedom<\/h3>\n<p>The boy was\u2063 identified as Jaiden Rodriguez, a seventh-grader at The Vanguard School, a charter school in\u2063 Colorado Springs, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.koaa.com\/news\/covering-colorado\/colorado-springs-mom-says-son-kicked-out-of-class-over-gadsden-flag-patch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KOAA-TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jaiden\u2019s mother, Eden Rodriguez, secretly recorded her meeting with a school administrator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/12-year-old-kid-kicked-class-gadsden-flag-patch-told-origins-slavery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">who informed her<\/a> that Jaiden could\u200b not have the patch in school because it was \u2062allegedly linked to the country\u2019s slave days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, the reason that they do not want the flag \u2014 the reason we do not want the flag displayed \u2014 is\u200c due to its origins with slavery and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/herschel-walker-and-others-say-no-to-slavery-reparations\/\" title=\"Herschel Walker And Others Say No To Slavery Reparations\">slave trade<\/a>,\u201d the administrator said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Meet 12yo\u2062 Jaiden who was kicked out of class yesterday in Colorado Springs for having a Gadsden flag\u2064 patch, which the school claims has \u201corigins with\u2062 slavery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u200dschool\u2019s director said via email that the patch was \u201cdisruptive to\u200c the classroom environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Receipts in the \u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qQ8jK1zSpR\">pic.twitter.com\/qQ8jK1zSpR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Connor Boyack (@cboyack) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cboyack\/status\/1696508336345153691?\">August \u200d29, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>No one \u200ddisputes that \u2063slavery and the slave trade constitute a shame on the history of the \u200bUnited States, \u2064but \u2064the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/left-openly-mocks-womans-horrific-death-capitol-carrying-gadsden-flag\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gadsden flag<\/a> has nothing to do \u2063with either.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, with its proudly, dangerously coiled rattlesnake and the motto \u201cDon\u2019t Tread on Me,\u201d it\u2019s a symbol of one of the proudest \u2063moments in the country\u2019s history \u2014\u200b when the\u200c North American colonies\u200c of Great Britain were \u2064fighting for their independence from the British empire.<\/p>\n<p>It has \u2063also become a symbol of conservatives in the\u2063 contemporary United\u2064 States, opposing the ever-expanding reach of the federal government into\u200b private lives.<\/p>\n<p>And \u2064conservatives \u200caround the country came\u200b to Jaiden\u2019s defense.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">You can tell that kid is being raised right. I loved hearing\u200b his mom\u200b stick up for him!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alexander Sheppard  (@NotAlexSheppard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NotAlexSheppard\/status\/1696534673927938350?\">August 29, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Gadsden Flag \u2063has been flown since 1775 and is\u2063 a\u200c symbol of the American Revolution.<\/p>\n<p>This is a\u200d direct attack on his freedom of speech.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, if this same boy walked up\u200b to his teachers and said that he\u2019d like to mutilate his body and begin to be referred to as \u2063a girl -\u2026 \u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/omoUPU0fgq\">https:\/\/t.co\/omoUPU0fgq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/laurenboebert\/status\/1696547753130627529?\">August 29, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sounds like the young man might \u2062know more about history than his teacher!?!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Melissa Welch (@welchgrapesrus) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/welchgrapesrus\/status\/1696524383035248806?\">August 29, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>A Victory for Free Speech<\/h3>\n<p>The school\u2019s decision to try to stamp out \u200dthat \u2063symbol was so ludicrous it ignited outrage \u200bacross the country \u2064\u2014 and even across party lines.<\/p>\n<p>Idiot Democratic Rep. \u2064Ted Lieu of California, normally a reliable source of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ted-lieu-voices-support-abortion-divorce-sex-marriage-daring-catholic-church-deny-communion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">leftist lunacy<\/a>, weighed in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tedlieu\/status\/1696587229257183312\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">with a social media\u200d post<\/a> comparing the student with the Gadsden flag to students \u200bwho wear rainbow patches \u200cto support <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/teacher-ignores-law-indoctrinate-kids-lgbt-book-gets-brutal-notice-states-board-education\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LGBT causes<\/a>. (It\u2019s not exactly an apt comparison, but Lieu at least seems to have had the right \u200bidea.)<\/p>\n<p>Colorado Gov.\u2062 Jared Polis, a Democrat, took the student\u2019s side, too.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Gadsden flag is a proud symbol of the American revolution and \u2063a iconic warning to Britain or\u200b any government not\u2064 to violate the liberties of \u2064Americans. It \u200bappears on popular\u2063 American medallions and challenge coins through today and\u200c Ben Franklin also adopted it\u200d to symbolize the\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sroNXnlJsf\">pic.twitter.com\/sroNXnlJsf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jared Polis (@jaredpolis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jaredpolis\/status\/1696544554156179924?\">August 29, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So, the school backing down was a victory for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/free-speech-not-absolute-obama-judge-admonishes-trump-limiting-access-sensitive-evidence-jan-6-trial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">free speech<\/a> \u200ball \u200baround.<\/p>\n<p>Except the school is trying to water it down.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released Tuesday, according\u200c to KOAA, the Vanguard School claimed that the controversy wasn\u2019t\u2064 really about \u200cthe Gadsden flag at all, but other patches Rodriguez had on his backpack.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe patch in question was part of half a dozen other patches of semi-automatic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-mulls-exec-order-end-run-2a-house-dems-push-1000-excise-tax-assault-weapons-high-capacity-mags\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">weapons<\/a>,\u201d the statement said. \u201cThe student has removed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/12-year-old-kicked-out-of-class-for-dont-tread-on-me-patch-defeats-school\/\" title=\"12-year-old expelled for 'Don't Tread On Me' patch triumphs over school.\">semi-automatic patches<\/a>.\u2062 As a school district, we will continue to ensure all students\u2062 and employees can learn and work in a safe and nurturing environment. The student\u200c returned to class without incident after removing the patches of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-if-it-saves-one-life-why-doesnt-the-lefts-logic-apply-to-illegal-immigration\/\" title=\"\u2018What If It Saves One Life?\u2019 Why Doesn\u2019t The Left\u2019s Logic Apply To Illegal Immigration?\">semi-automatic weapons<\/a>\u2062 from the backpack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s funny, since it\u2019s pretty much the first time anyone has mentioned anything in the case but the Gadsden flag.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, \u2062in his thread of posts publicizing the case on X, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-new-acting-attorney-general-jeff-rosen-recently-wrote-an-essay-on-foreign-influence-in-us-elections-this-tells-us-a-little-about-his-knowledge-of-whats-going-on-today\/\" title=\"The New Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen Recently Wrote an Essay on Foreign Influence in US Elections \u2013 This Tells Us A Little About His Knowledge of What\u2019s Going On Today\">social media platform<\/a> formerly known as Twitter, Boyack included an email \u2063from the school\u2019s director that\u200c referred very \u2063specifically to the Gadsden flag.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">They cited <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USEEOC?\">@USEEOC<\/a>, which admitted that the flag \u201coriginated in \u2062the Revolutionary War in\u2063 a non-racial context\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n<p>But\u200d then said \u201cHowever, whatever the historic origins and meaning of the \u2064symbol, it also has since been sometimes interpreted to convey racially-tinged messages\u2026\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/w0M74bMgN2\">pic.twitter.com\/w0M74bMgN2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Connor \u2063Boyack (@cboyack) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cboyack\/status\/1696508342955286932?\">August 29, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAs discussed,\u201d the director wrote,\u200d \u201cI am writing to provide you with the rationale \u200cfor determining <em>the Gadsden flag<\/em> is an unacceptable symbol.\u201d (Emphasis added.)<\/p>\n<p>While the backpack\u2062 did have \u200cpatches with weapons on them \u2014 one of the Catholic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ewtn.com\/catholicism\/devotions\/prayer-to-st-michael-the-archangel-371\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">St. Michael the \u2063Archangel<\/a> \u200c carrying a sword, another of a firearm \u2014 they weren\u2019t discussed during Eden Rodriguez\u2019s meeting with the administrator.<\/p>\n<p>It was the Gadsden flag that was the problem \u2014\u200c apparently because in \u200cthe United States of 2023, it\u2019s as much \u2063a symbol \u2062of the\u2063 determination to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/desantis-unveils-ultimate-florida-license-plate-libs-completely-losing-minds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fight\u2064 for freedom<\/a> as it was in the colonies in 1775 and the days of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/al-sharpton-tries-shaming-trump-comparing-founding-fathers-gets-instant-history-lesson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Founding Fathers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is clear viewpoint discrimination. Indeed, the school \u200bdistrict policy that the director cited only relates to things featuring \u2018drugs, tobacco, alcohol or\u2064 weapons\u2019 \u2014 none of which apply to the Gadsden flag,\u201d\u2064 Boyack wrote in \u200da <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deseret.com\/opinion\/2023\/8\/29\/23850767\/dont-tread-on-me-colorado-school-gadsden-flag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">commentary piece<\/a> published Tuesday by the Deseret News in Salt Lake City,\u200c Utah, where his think tank is based.<\/p>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-container\" class=\"one-half\">\n<div class=\"firefly-poll-question\">Is \u200dfreedom of\u200b speech\u200b under attack?<\/div>\n<div id=\"pollFormBox\" style=\"display: none\">\n<p>\t\t<label>Yes<\/label><br \/>\n\t\t<label>No<\/label><br \/>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-poll-disclaimer\">\n<p>\t\tCompleting this poll entitles\u200d you to The Western Journal news updates free of charge. You may opt out at anytime. 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Another student was suspended for\u200c wearing a \u2018Women \u200cfor\u2064 Trump\u2019\u2062 mask. Another was told to take off their \u2018There are only two genders\u2019 T-shirt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In \u2064another\u2063 social media post, Boyack \u2014 who might be familiar to many conservative parents as the author of the \u201cThe Tuttle Twins\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s?k=tuttle+twins&#038;adgrpid=1339205733647928&#038;hvadid=83700596963544&#038;hvbmt=be&#038;hvdev=c&#038;hvlocphy=49919&#038;hvnetw=o&#038;hvqmt=e&#038;hvtargid=kwd-83700717676163%3Aloc-190&#038;hydadcr=16811_13420153&#038;tag=mh0b-20&#038;ref=pd_sl_55i839twfg_e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">children\u2019s book series<\/a> \u2014 called\u200b the case an example of how Americans need to be aware of their rights \u2014 and of the importance of keeping a record of any contact with officials\u200b who \u200btry to infringe on them.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Let\u200c this be \u2062a lesson \u2014 document your encounters w\/ government employees. Had Jaiden\u2019s mom not recorded the video, this wouldn\u2019t have got nearly the attention that it \u200bdid.<\/p>\n<p>Important: not \u200ball states let you record secretly like this, but most\u200c do. Details: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3efUF9P6xC\">https:\/\/t.co\/3efUF9P6xC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Connor\u2064 Boyack (@cboyack) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cboyack\/status\/1696693991134130652?\">August 30, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>A Lesson in Conservative Values<\/h3>\n<p>But the case is more than that. 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