The Colorado school that admonished a middle school student for displaying the Gadsden flag on his backpack will now allow the student to display the flag.
What is the background?
The story of 12-year-old Jaiden, a seventh-grade student at the Vanguard School in Colorado Springs, went viral on Tuesday after video showed school administrators reprimanding him over a “Don't Tread on Me” flag patch on his backpack.
Meet 12yo Jaiden who was kicked out of class yesterday in Colorado Springs for having a Gadsden flag patch, which the school claims has “origins with slavery.”
The school's director said via email that the patch was “disruptive to the classroom environment.”
Receipts in the pic.twitter.com/qQ8jK1zSpR
— Connor Boyack (@cboyack) August 29, 2023
