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05/08/2008: "Idaho student says teacher tossed his Mexican flag in trash"

A high school student says he may file a lawsuit against a physical education teacher who took a Mexican flag he had brought for Cinco de Mayo and put it in the garbage.

Straatman denied saying the words Camelo attributed to him, and said the student may have misunderstood him because of his poor English skills. He said he took the flag from Camelo after Camelo had been waving it in the school gym, and denied withholding it later.

"I had to confiscate it so it wouldn't escalate any problems in class," Straatman told The Times-News. "We're worried about that stuff all the time. We always have kids saying stuff to each other, and we have a lot of fights between kids."

[ I bet that kid feels like doing it again now - for la raza. ]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080507/ap_on_re_us/flag_incident