Believe it or not, in the United States of America, students have been forced to go home from school for wearing patriotic shirts with the colors or design of the American flag.

Why you might ask?  Because it was Cinco de Mayo and deemed to be inappropriate by school administrators. 

Yes, really...  (Via KTUV in Morgan Hill, California):

Five students at a South Bay high school stirred up some controversy Wednesday for wearing t-shirts depicting red, white and blue American flags on Cinco de Mayo.

School officials at Live Oak High in Morgan Hill told the students they had to go home if they wouldn’t turn the shirts inside out.

One of the students said it appeared school administrators were worried the patriotic shirts could trigger fights. ...

Four of the five students who wore American flags or patriotic colors on campus walked into a meeting with the superintendent of the Morgan Hill unified school district Wednesday night.

They were facing unexcused absences because they chose to go home early rather than take off what they were wearing. ...

Student Anthony Caravalho was also sent home for not turning his shirt inside out.

“They said we had to wear our t-shirts inside out and then we could go back to class and we said no,” said Caravalho. “It would be disrespectful to the flag by hiding it.” ...

Daniel Galli, another student who was reprimanded for wearing a US flag, described what he was told by school administration.

“He said 'If you wear it on any other day, it’s fine; but just because it's today you can't wear it,'” Galli said. “His exact words.”

Galli said he was told it was inappropriate to wear the shirt because “it's supposed to be a Mexican Day and we were supposed to honor them.”

More via NBC:

Galli says he and his friends were sitting at a table during brunch break when the Vice Principal
asked two of the boys to remove American flag bandannas that they
wearing on their heads and for the others to turn their American flag
t-shirts inside-out. When they refused, the boys were ordered to go to the principal’s office.

“They said we could wear it on any other day, but today is sensitive
to Mexican Americans because it’s supposed to be their holiday so we
were not allowed to wear it today,” Daniel Galli said.

The boys said the administrators called their t-shirts “incendiary” that would lead to fights on campus.

“They said if we tried to go back to class with our shirts not taken
off, they said it was defiance and we would get suspended,” Dominic
Maciel, Galli’s friend, said.

As the folks over at Pajama's Media put it, the school administrators were treating the Stars and Stripes like it was some sort of gang sign or colors.

We're now way beyond being knee-deep in identity politics...which is being egged on by our Commander in Chief tendency to play racial politics, (his response to Arizona's immigration enforcement law, or his most recent campaign video being perfect examples).

As for the school district itself, they've decided to back off a little bit and put out a statement saying: “The district does not concur with the Live Oak High School administration's interpretation of either board or district policy related to these actions."

No doubt we can chalk that up to some district administrator (rightfully) fearing for his/her job.

Question: Does anyone actually think that if a group of students showed up at school on Independence Day wearing Mexican flag shirts that they would be sent home or suspended? 

Hardly.  If it did happen, it would lead the news, and the administrators in question would be labeled as racists and possibly fired.  Al Sharpton (etc) would show up to protest, followed by a trail of TV cameras.

Political correctness, run wild...