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5 students were wearing American t-shirts on a Wednesday morning when they were told to either change or go home. Should the students have been basically forced to go home for showing American pride on Cinco de Mayo? Because there was no harm done, the students should have not been forced to go home for showing American pride on Cinco de Mayo. The American students were not threatening the Mexican-American students what so ever. They did not purposefully want to hurt their classmate’s feelings; if they even did. If you were/are a Mexican American student, would you have felt threatened? If so, then put yourself in their shoes; what would you have done? Talked to the principal? Told your peers? Approached those who you felt threatened by? The American students did not intend to start any trouble or to cause any harm by wearing the American flag t-shirts on Cinco de Mayo. Just because you or your friend decides to show pride for their country on a different country’s national holiday, that doesn’t mean that you are trying to cause a commotion with the other race; and if you were, then the principal would’ve noticed and you would’ve gotten in more serious trouble. Imagine you decide to wear red, white, and blue on a Mexican holiday, and you are forced to go home simply because you decided to show pride for your country on another country’s holiday. You could understand that some people would find it disrespectful towards the race celebrating the holiday, but in no way were the students trying to disrespect anyone or start any incidents. The Mexican-Americans don’t flash red, white, and green (their flags colors), on 4th of July because that would be disrespectful to the Americans. So wearing a whole American flag on a Mexican holiday is disrespectful. Although it was a Mexican holiday, it is not the only day where Mexican-American students can wear their colors and show pride for their country. They could wear red, green, and yellow any day of the week, month, or year, even on 4th of July.  In conclusion, the students should have not been forced to go home for showing American pride on Cinco de Mayo because there was no harm done. If there was harm done, there would’ve been a more serious punishment then just going home; which did not even count as a suspension.