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March 11, 2006

Raven Furbert and Patriotic Beads

by @ 11:01 am. Filed under Education

Michelle Malkin has been following a case involving Raven Furbert. A middle school student who wore Red, White and Blue beads to school. She did it to honor our soldiers and some of them are close relatives of hers. For that she was treated like a gang member, under the school’s “gang related items” rules. She took the school officials to court. A U.S. District Court will hear the case.

Student’s suit over patriotic necklace will advance

ALBANY — A 13-year-old Mont Pleasant Middle School student who sued Schenectady school officials for the right to wear a red, white and blue necklace can move her case forward.

U.S. District Judge Lawrence Kahn ruled Tuesday that constitutional issues in the case should be further explored and addressed later, perhaps at trial.

The student, Raven Furbert, filed the civil rights violation claim in U.S. District Court in February 2005, after school officials banned her from wearing a necklace she made to honor soldiers serving overseas, such as her uncle and three other relatives.

School officials had asked for the case to be dismissed, saying the neck wear violated rules on potential gang-related items.

Now children showing a little patriotism are being treated like gang members. While in some school districts teachers with anti-American sentiments are allowed to keep teaching.

As I’ve pointed out in a previous post. These kinds of cases always end with the student winning. Gang garb is known to potentially spark violence. That is not the case with Red, White and Blue beads. So Raven Furbert’s beads should not be treated like gang gear, because it is not the same.



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