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TexasTowelie

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Thu May 2, 2019, 06:48 PM May 2019

Student who wore Confederate flag cape stirs up outrage at Texas high school

A Confederate flag is roiling a North Texas school district after a Royse City student wore one to class recently.

The incident in late April has inflamed residents and activists and has led to at least one racist incident when students in an SUV leaving campus shouted "white power" and were caught on video, according to WFAA-TV (Channel 8).

The flag has since been confiscated and the student "received consequences in accordance with board policy," Royse City Superintendent Kevin Worthy wrote in a letter quoted in the Royse City Herald Banner.

As for the students who shouted the racist slogan, "identification of the subject(s) is underway and discipline, if at all possible, for this off campus action will occur," the letter stated.

Read more: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/hunt-county/2019/05/02/student-hunt-county-high-school-stirs-outrage-confederate-flag-cape

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Student who wore Confederate flag cape stirs up outrage at Texas high school (Original Post) TexasTowelie May 2019 OP
Someone hasn't gotten over losing.the Civil War. muntrv May 2019 #1
The flag of the surrender monkeys Fullduplexxx May 2019 #2
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