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Zirkel, Perry A. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2004
In late October 2000, Franklin Scott and Nicholas Thomas, 11th-graders at a high school in Alachua County, Florida, each displayed a Confederate flag on campus. Scott did so on his pickup truck, and Thomas did so on his T-shirt. The principal, Lamar Simmons, had given each of them a warning when they had engaged in such conduct earlier in the…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Court Litigation, Freedom of Speech, Symbolic Language