Idaho student says teacher tossed his Mexican flag in trash

Source: Associated Press

Idaho student says teacher tossed his Mexican flag in trash
4:24 PM EDT, May 7, 2008

TWIN FALLS, Idaho

A high school student says he may file a lawsuit against a physical education teacher who took a Mexican flag he had brought for Cinco de Mayo and put it in the garbage.

Clint Straatman denies Froylan Camelo's version of events but said he took the flag Monday because "white kids" might have hurt the 16-year-old. He said he put it in a garbage can because he had no place else to keep it.

Camelo said he was changing into gym clothes at Minico High School in Rupert when Straatman told him, "Give me the flag."

"I said, 'What's the problem?'" Camelo, speaking in Spanish, told The Times-News of Twin Falls. "He said, 'The problem is that we are in the United States and not in Mexico.' He grabbed it from me. He threw the flag in the garbage can."

Camelo said that Straatman told him the flag would be returned at the end of the school day, but that Straatman taunted him instead.



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the coach was way out of line, especially when he placed the flag in a garbage can and then wouldn't give it back at the end of the year.

I can assure you it'd be played 24/7 on every news channel for atleast a week, limbaugh'd have a heart attack, etc.

Oh, but atleast "he did put it in a garbage can because he had no place else to keep it." Ummmm-hmm.

no english in idaho? :)

A teacher can take away "a Mexican flag" if it's disrupting the class.
The teacher was insensitive to the students personal property rights.


But this is not a lawsuit. This is a parent teacher conference.

and a THIEF to boot.

What's surprising is that the teacher thought he even had to provide a bullshit excuse to do it.

He was also told you're not allowed to have pinatas that look like real people, but in Mexico, we do it all the time.