Political correctness run amok

It seems that wearing a shirt with an American flag or red, white and blue is inappropriate these days.  At least if you wear such a shirt on Cinco de Mayo (an American made Mexican holiday)  Five students at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, CA (you knew it was going to be in California didn't you) were asked to remove their patriotic shirts or turn them inside out on Wednesday.  Not that the shirts were inappropriate or did not fit within the school dress code.  No because the assistant principal felt the students were being "insensitive" to the Mexican-American students by wearing the shirts on May 5.

Look at them, bunch of hoodlums!  Of course they were being smart asses, isn't that the primary purpose of most teenage guys?  But by all reports they were not being disruptive and in fact no one had complained and  none of the other students expressed that they were offended.  Apparently it is common practice in Morgan Hill for some students to wear red and green clothing to reflect the Mexican flag on Cinco de Mayo.

I have a real difficult time believing that some kids wearing flag t-shirts even made the top 50 list of problems the school officials needed to deal with that day.  Maybe we should start worrying about something that matters.