Cause for Celebration?

Three high school students in California were sent home this week for wearing t-shirts sporting the American flag on Cinco de Mayo. School officials were quoted as saying the shirts were "incendiary".

Since Progressivism is all about equality and fairness I thought I'd help the school board by publishing a list of dates for other countries' independence days. This way the school can enforce the rule equally and ban apparel showing any flag other than that of the country who is celebrating its national holiday on that day. Hmm, this may cause an issue since some countries share the same independence day. Maybe they can allow one flag to be shown before lunch and the other after lunch, or maybe they can alternate years to keep it fair.

America is, after all, the great melting pot. It's fair to assume that every last one of these countries is represented in some public high school or another in America. If you don't allow the American flag to be displayed on Cinco de Mayo in deference to the Mexican student population, you should naturally extend the same courtesy to all immigrant populations, shouldn't you?

Oh and by the way, don't forget to send home students wearing any national flag other than that of the U.S.A. on July 4.

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01/04/10 Myanmar
02/04/10 Sri Lanka
02/07/10 Grenada
02/11/10 Iran, Vatican City
02/12/10 Chile
02/15/10 Serbia
02/16/10 Lithuania
02/18/10 The Gambia
02/24/10 Estonia
02/25/10 Kuwait
02/27/10 Dominican Republic
03/01/10 Bosnia & Herzegovina
03/06/10 Ghana
03/12/10 Mauritius
03/20/10 Tunisia
03/21/10 Namibia
03/25/10 Greece
03/26/10 Bangladesh
04/15/10 Ireland
04/18/10 Zimbabwe
04/27/10 Sierra Leone, Togo
05/05/10 Mexico, Netherlands
05/09/10 Romania
05/14/10 Isreal
05/15/10 Paraguay
05/17/10 Norway
05/20/10 Cuba, East Timor
05/21/10 Montenegro
05/24/10 Eritrea
05/25/10 Jordan
05/26/10 Georgia, Guyana
06/01/10 Samoa
06/04/10 Tonga
06/12/10 Phillippines, Russia
06/17/10 Iceland
06/25/10 Mozambique
06/26/10 Madagascar
06/27/10 Djibouti
06/29/10 Seychelles
06/30/10 Democratic Republic of the Congo
07/01/10 Burundi, Rwanda
07/03/10 Belarus
07/05/10 Algeria, Cape Verde, Venezuela
07/06/10 Malawi
07/07/10 Solo,on Islands
07/09/10 Argentina
07/10/10 Bahamas
07/12/10 Sao Tome & Principe
07/17/10 Slovakia
07/20/10 Colombia
07/21/10 Belgium
07/26/10 Leberia, Maldives
07/28/10 Peru
07/30/10 Vanuatu
08/01/10 Benin, Switzerland
08/03/10 Niger
08/05/10 Burkina Faso
08/06/10 Bolivia, Jamaica
08/07/10 Cote D'lvoire
08/09/10 Singapore
08/10/10 Ecuador
08/11/10 Chad
08/13/10 Central African Republic
08/14/10 Pakistan
08/15/10 India, South Korea
08/17/10 Indonesia
08/19/10 Afghanistan
08/24/10 Ukraine
08/25/10 Uraguay
08/27/10 Moldova
08/31/10 Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, Trinidad
09/01/10 Uzbekistan
09/02/10 Vietnam
09/06/10 Swaziland
09/07/10 Brazil
09/08/10 Macedonia
09/09/10 North Korea, Tajikistan
09/15/10 Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua
09/16/10 Papua New Guinea
09/19/10 Saint Kitts & Nevis
09/21/10 Armenia, Belize, Malta
09/22/10 Bulgaria, Mali
09/30/10 Abkhazia, Botswana
10/01/10 Cyprus, Nigeria
10/02/10 Guinea
10/04/10 Lesotho
10/08/10 Croatia
10/10/10 Fiji
10/18/10 Azerbaijan
10/24/10 Zambia
10/26/10 Austria
10/27/10 Turkmenistan
10/28/10 Czech Republic
10/29/10 Turkey
11/01/10 Antigua and Barbuda
11/03/10 Dominica, Panama
11/09/10 Cambodia
11/11/10 Angola, Poland
11/18/10 Latvia, Morocco
11/22/10 Lebanon
11/25/10 Suriname
11/26/10 Mongolia
11/28/10 Albania
11/30/10 Barbados, Yemen
12/01/10 Portugal
12/02/10 United Arab Emirates
12/06/10 Finland
12/09/10 Tanzania
12/11/10 South Africa
12/12/10 Kenya
12/16/10 Bahrain, Kazakhstan
12/18/10 Qatar
12/24/10 Libya
12/26/10 Slovenia