Idaho student says teacher tossed his Mexican flag in trash
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.”
Cuando estaba en Espnya supe que izar la bandera de otra nacion se considera un signo de muy mala educacion. Hay que respetar la soberania de la nacion en que vives. Las otras naciones de Europa tampoco toleran desplieges mayores de banderas forasteras dentro de su territorio nacional.
Julio