It shouldn’t come as a surprise. For more than a decade, school districts have provided plenty of examples of knee-jerk reactions to students and teachers displaying flags of pretty much any sort. First, they went after the Confederate flag. Then the Thin Blue Line American flag. There were instances where Gay Pride flags or BLM flags were removed. But the latest is a prime example of schools not just stepping up to the line but jumping over it. Staunton River High School in Virginia ordered a student to remove the flags from the bed of his pickup truck because they were a “distraction”. What?

The story is simple. High school student Christopher Hartless is proud of his country and the flag the represents it. “My family fought for America, and I feel like I should be able to represent the flags that they fought for,” he explained. Last Wednesday, Hartless Mounted two flags on poles to either side of the bed of his truck, just behind the cab before heading to school. Can you imagine his surprise when school admins told him to take the flags down because they were “distractions”?

What? Distractions to who and how?